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Have been to Kew Gardens today and there's ALWAYS a child called Raphael there

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hunkermunster · 15/10/2006 19:43

Different ones.

How is this possible?!

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SherlockLGJ · 15/10/2006 19:44

Never mind that, was he wearing a stripey top ??

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hunkermunster · 15/10/2006 19:46

ROFL!

No, he was wearing an orange top, this time. Often it's red though.

He always has longish floppy hair with blondish streaks in it.

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fridascruffs · 15/10/2006 19:48

children whose parents would call their kid raphael are genetically predisposed to want to be botanists.
(well known fact).

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hunkermunster · 15/10/2006 19:50

LOL! I do always have a bit of a larf at "the UK's first botanical play zone" or whatever it says by climbers and creepers - like...er...yes, they'll be common as muck now

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hunkermunster · 15/10/2006 19:50

I do love Kew though. Went up the Pagoda today.

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TutterIckOrTreat · 15/10/2006 19:58

i was there too

ds is not called raphael, i promise

TutterIckOrTreat · 15/10/2006 19:58

ps the cranberries are crap aren't they?

mummydear · 15/10/2006 20:01

Kew Gardens is great , Sunday mornnings Creepers & Crawliers is full of parents from 'Chiswick' reading the Sunday papers , drinking coffee whilst their children do whatever !

Having said that I've dome that ( hope no one from Chiswick takes the hump )

hatwoman · 15/10/2006 20:04

I assume its the one whose dad wears mustard cords?

bakedpotatooooowoooh · 15/10/2006 20:08

The goose crap is crap too.

I was there today. DS was wearing stripy top but is not called Raphael.

Mercy · 15/10/2006 20:15

My friends ds is called Raphael (known as Raff or Riff) and he is lovely (looks and temperament). What's wrong with the name? His parents are both artists, hence the name.

somethingunderthebedisdrooling · 15/10/2006 20:26

nowt wrong with the name - especially if you live in Spain or Mexico.

somethingunderthebedisdrooling · 15/10/2006 20:27

common as muck out there.

fridascruffs · 15/10/2006 20:47

Nothing wrong with Raphael, reminds me of the painter, or of his paintings anyway. It just makes me think of angels, which seems dangerously optimistic, doesn't it?

cazzybabs · 15/10/2006 20:51

OHH we are having a trip to London to go to Kew the weekend after next!

No sons though!

ssd · 15/10/2006 20:56

so what are all the girls there called then?

cod · 15/10/2006 20:57

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Loshad · 15/10/2006 22:07

Ds2 played a mixed team at rugby today (u12's) and it was an unusal sound to hear shouted "henrietta, ruck it over" - she was v. good too [simle]

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hunkermunster · 16/10/2006 00:21

I quite like the name Raphael, but it's one of those "like, but would never use" names, iykwim.

So, two other MNers at Kew today - I did wonder if there was anyone from MN there as it was pretty busy. And yes, the cranberries were lame!!

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jura · 16/10/2006 00:25

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hunkermunster · 16/10/2006 01:22

Because whenever we are there we go to Climbers and Creepers and there's always a child being called Raphael in strident tones

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MummyPig · 16/10/2006 01:38

I was there too. Ds2 was wearing an orange t-shirt but he doesn't have fair floppy hair and his name isn't Raphael either.

I've been meaning to ask this since we joined as 'Premier Friends' - which bits do your kids enjoy apart from Climbers and Creepers? Today we went in at the Lion Gate so that it would take ages to get to C&C and we could actually enjoy the gardens for a while. Ds2 even asked to go in a glasshouse too, which pleased me although I wasn't sure why.

Completely agree about the cranberries and the goose poo though. I was also disappointed by the pumpkin man, I thought the metal frame would be completely covered by pumpkins.

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hunkermunster · 16/10/2006 01:51

Cor, all these MNers there!

DS1 enjoyed the sheep. DH and I had a laugh(!) about which one of them was the black sheep of the family (they were all black...).

DS1 generally enjoys charging about on the grass, crunching in leaves, eating chips and ketchup and looking for squirrels (we saw a fox there today too). But he's 2.6.

Loads of bigger kids climbing the pagoda today too - have to be 5 or over though as it's quite a climb!

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TutterIckOrTreat · 16/10/2006 07:48

ds is only 16mo so just enjoys pushing his trolley (!) around, or throwing his ball, or wandering aimlessly.

likes c&c but we avoid at weekends - too wild. scores of crazed 7 year olds intent on trampling 16 month olds

LemonTart · 16/10/2006 07:53

sigh
I used to live near kew as a young free single adult
sigh
now too expensive for the likes of non working SAHM and so a one income family...moved bf kids if honest for a job, but now content in a small village in sw. Ho hum.
You lucky lucky girls being able to wander through kew at a whim
I would rename both my girls and buy them stripy tops if it meant I could a afford a 4 bed house in Kew