no friends

[billyjean]

Hi I have moved to a new area 2 years ago now. Trouble is I seem to have lost the knack of making friends. I have spent all half term just me and the kids, I haven't spent any time with any friends at all. The one friend I have here has been away the last two weeks. She is nice although we don't have a lot in common. She saught me out when i moved here as she is such a friendly person but she has so many friends and seems to pick up any stray dog if you know what i mean. I have 2 other mums that i regularly talk to but have only seen one of them once in her house,she seems to have a lot of friends too and not a lot of time for any new ones. I'm feeling rather sorry for myself as i feel a bit fed up and am starting to wonder what is wrong with me. Will I ever make any friends? If you can't advise me at least I may have given you a laugh at a sad no mates person.

Suedonim, I forgot to say that I hope everything goes really well with your move, especially as you are going overseas, I hope you settle in quickly.

Thanks, Jodee. I hope to be back on Mumsnet when I've sorted out a PC and ISP in our new abode!

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hi billyjean,
we left Plymouth around 3 years ago as neither of us could find decent jobs, but our house which we were renovating, wasn't finished, so we couldn't sell it. At different times, we've also lived in Blandford, Weymouth, Wincanton and Yeovil! It's been a strain, financially as well as everything else, going down to Plymouth at weekends to finish the house, but now looks like being over, thank goodness. Whereabouts in the west are you?
On the OU, it is not a career change, I am just doing M301, which is a computing course teaching the Java language - such is the pace of change that software engineers never finish studying! The stuff I am working with is so new it isn't even in any university courses yet, and just one text book, which I had to buy recently, cost more than £50!!

Suedonim, good luck with your move, missing you already!

When you sell that house, sml, I hope all of you have a nice, long, relaxing holday in a place where computers are non existant.

Billyjean and others here, Mumsnet is definitely a source of company for me as well. Perhaps this explains the following:

When I joined our school's PTA a few months ago, I found myself feeling unusually at ease in the first meeting I attended. There were various topics to discuss, with a little cut and thrust as people had varying views and suggestions. Sounds familiar anyone? I'm on the shy side in groups, but I found it easier that expected to contribute. And as I listened to the others having their say, I began to think to myself 'there's a Suedomim, there's a Rhubarb, there's a chanelno5'etc. Honestly, if one of the PTA - ers had called me 'tigermoth' at the meeting I wouldn't have batted an eyelid! Somehow 'talking' on mumsnet to groups of strangers helps me 'talk'`to groups in real life. Billyjean, I wonder if you might find this, too?

thank you tigermoth! Interesting point about groups, that. We were at the Princess of Wales playground a couple of Sundays ago, and I found I was looking round at the other Mums, trying to fit them to mumsnet nicknames! (if anyone else was there, we were the ones who left conspicuously with the yelling toddler that wanted to stay all night)

Bloss, we're moving to Indonesia - a bit nearer you than we are currently, I think! We're making a start on a raft of immunisations tomorrow.

sml, I've done EXACTLY the same thing at the same playground, but not on the same day as you mention. I do wonder if any of the other PTA-ers at the group I've joined log onto mumsnet. Many of them have computers. Perhaps I'll see a strangely familiar face when the London contingent meet up in May.

ha ha, well it is true, I didn't see anyone that fitted as you that day, tigermoth!