God, why are some mums so bloody dull??

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Just need to rant..all the playground/toddler grp conversations seem to revolve around:

• washing,washing machines breaking etc
• does my daughter love ballet, or would she rather do modern? or tap? Oh its so hard to decide, i dont know what to choose,hmm, oh its such a rush after school getting to all these places, blardy blah..
• are you preparing recipes for the school cook book? (er, no)
• OOh are you going to the PTA meeting after school, theyre talking about the new fences that are being put up (yeah like i care!) -my husband thinks our new 4X4 isnt big enough for the kids, we only have one child but oh we really do need more space..so we have to buy the hugest fukking land rover we can find in london -we tried to get ds to sleep at 7.15 last night but he was cranky and didnt drop off til 7.30 so i didnt have time to get all my ironing done..blardy blaardy bores...

Does my head in!! dont they have any interests? any ideas of what is happening in the rest of the world? no jobs to go to, or issues to focus on????

There is a girl called Ruby in my DD's class and DD & I sang "Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby!" to her as she came out one day. The mums looked at me like I was a total FREAK. They prbably have never even heard of the Kaiser Chiefs. Or maybe they hate them because they are from Leeds.

thats the way agbu talk to the Dads! you'll have those other mummys in a right tizz soon enough.

Maybe you were singing flat

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Or perhaps it was your singing?

I bloody love the mums at DD1's school gate. And - mwah mwah to UD - the dads too. Admittedly I am old enough to be your great-grandmother, of course.

I don't think anyone has ever mentioned a wahsing machine to me, although admittedly that may say more about me/the Inferiorettes than them.

Conversations on music and joys of clubbing will seem much less interesting in your thirties.

I tend to fart loudly to break the ice.

they DO flock to chat to me!!
thats the friggin problem!!

UD, if she's anything like Ruby in DD1's class it's because she's fed up with the whole fecking class singing it to her, plus DD1 singing the Stones' Ruby Tuesday.

You lot are totally being suckered in here!

motherinferior, I take your point!

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If i mention my career intentions, one of them always says "oh you always have to try and prove yourself dont you!!"

yeah thanks for the support

Around the same time you might realize that it wasn't because they are more "cool" that you got along better with men than women

why cant you go to ibiza at my age?
i had my dd at 19 so always found theres been bit of an age gap

and modest as well

AGBU - is there anyone else your age who is into your kind of thing? Schoolgate parents I know (DD is in Y2) tend to be nearer 38 than 28.

UD exactly, most of the mums in dds class are 39 at the youngest and the oldest are nearly 50!!

We are all ancient in Catford. Apart from the very young not at all posh mother with whom I get on remarkably well, as it happens.

...so clearly we are only interested in Saga holidays and restrained, beige clothes...

i'm afraid the interesting conversations happen when we leave the playground and retire to our mansions to drink cystal by the pool, thanking god that boring husbands are happily occupied with young floozy in the playground

Motherinferior are you perchance the lovely lady I know via freecycle? We swapped a breadmaker for a quinny zapp?