A MASSIVE HELLO to anyone who has the memory of an elephant!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lizzer]

I remember jbr too! Califrau - I think I just hadn't twigged you were the same person!

Enid - this is obviously a thread for working out all the namechanges!

I remember Jbr, and robinw too

I beamed all the way through the most tedious meeting this afternoon armed with the thought I could catch up with you later I think the guy chairing it must have thought I was on drugs, no-one else was smiling, believe me.
So pleased that although you've been through hard times you and A have rediscovered your love for each other! I bet dd has some firm ideas about her outfit for the wedding too
Welcome back and FGS don't leave it another five years before you post again woman!

Ah but Janh, do you remember the teatowel/floorcloth meltdown? My eyes were watering for days after that thread.

sobernow is still here too

Someone in the church hall cleaned a fairly dirty floor with a proper tea towel...
Pragmatic solution or end of the world as we know it?

Jbr yes! And Robinw. And Dadslib of course!

Lizzer I think you were the first regular to leave and I was gutted tbh! So glad things are ok for you! We did loads of "Where is she now" threads for you, you know! No-one knew where you had gone!

Bloody welcome back mate!

Who are you normally Davenid?

I think Robinw was the founder member of the Teachers are Devious Slackers Mumsnet clique, too.
Oh, and she lurved the country and her rural neighbours

It's enid. I keep thinking it's dave-nid!

lol marina - she really loved teachers didn't she!

I would pay good money to read a live Chat on Education between robinw and our very own MB, if the latter were up for it

front row seats for me. Could Xenia be prevailed upon to add her own individual interjections?

Mumsnet Debating Soc!

Now there's a thought. Would need someone fairly feisty to chair it!

Oh there are some here, marina - one-sided now of course but they are there - search for robinw posts from mb's old nickname and you'll find them

oh and hula's in there as well with some posts deleted!

those were the days

jbr could chair, she was very diplomatic wasn't she? And dadslib could be guest debater!

I had totally forgotten they did coincide, janh . V selfish of robin to take away half the fun

How long have you been on here JanH?

and cod, but she could still type then!!!!!

Oh I do love these strolls down memory lane.

(Since early 2001, rhuby - March I think.)

You're before my time (just) but I can tell you all you need to know about your Lost Years on MN:

Mumsnet has dumbed down.

Mumsnet hasn't dumbed down it's just Got Bigger.

Mumsnet used to be like an exclusive dinner party but now it's more like a bun-fight in McDonald's.

We've had seventy-three "How Did You Choose Your MN Name" threads and 65 "Where Can I Buy Baby Pasta" threads. Also 97 threads about Fruit Shoots and how they are Satan's Drink of Choice.

There have been 908 breast/bottle feeding debates/slanging matches/all out punch-ups. Funnily enough, only 907 WOHM/SAHM debates/slanging matches/punch-ups.

Mega scandals: Judge Flounce Was A Man!

Never ask where you can buy a red rug.

Cod (who was EdgarCat last time you were here) has had 498 name changes and can type properly if she has a mind to.

Lots of people have flounced. Only Aloha flounced for good and then - just as all hope had faded - she came back

Dadslib got banned, as did cowmad.

Blankets have been knitted; babies have been born; we've had lots of tears and lots of laughs.

Probably pretty much as it was when you left it Welcome back.

(oh and this isn't my proper name, just to confuse matters)

Oooh, about the same as me then really!

Surely there are those who have been on here longer? I don't want to be one of the longest serving, that makes me seem really sad!

I'd have left altogether if it wasn't for this bloody pleurisy you know! That and boredom.

Is Tinker still here?