April 2007 - Where did all the babies go?

[PillockOfTheCommunity]

at work so flying visit, still no internet at home

This stroppy thing is fun actually

Well our only decent baby shop is closing down and our Mothercare is the size of a postage stamp and teeming with Chavs .... so ner!!

GO TO YOUR ROOM!!

Ner! indeed. (sticks out tonugue and then runs away because Dippy is a bit scary now she's been 'trained')

(pokes head round door with hopeful face on)

Actually it is a bit grim - when I had dd1 there was a mothercare in town as well as the out of town one and a lovely independant baby shop right in the heart of town and Boots had a whole seperate shop just for baby stuff!

Now Mothercare and that independant one have shut, the other independant one is also at an out of town site and in Boots we (the baby shoppers) are squashed into part of the upstairs so are lift dependant!

Get back to your room, young lady, or you won't go to the Disco next week ....

But....but....but.....I've been good and reflected on recent socio-economic trends in my place of residence. Pleeeeeeeeeeease.

It's NOT FAIR!!

Will you buy me an ice-cream?

Go on then. But you want sprinkles you can get them yourself

PMSL at CD and NL - does Sussex really have chavs Dippy?

Our local Mothercare is quite big but their range of buggies is really mainly quite well known models, fortunately they had the one we wanted.

NL, it wasn't the Baby Show but some similar event was on near you a few months ago, someone else on the thread went with her dh. Just don't emulate the heroine of a recent chicklit novel who goes to such an event and buys 5 prams.

That would be the one in Harrogate I think? I'm ashamed to admit it but had it not been for school run at 3.15 I would have been tempted to get over there

But the NCT here are organising a Baby Fair here soon - I will be there

Sounds bad re baby shopping NL - the only baby dept I will bother getting the lift to is in the local M&S and that's really for the cafe. I notice Leeds Mothercare has gone out of town too, hope Harrogate doesn't go the same way.

Talking of which, I'm not sure when I'm next in Ilkley or how long for, but I usually try to get to Harrogate for an event in July, and that's on a direct train route to York. Maybe if that happens this year and you're around then we can try to meet.

Elkie, I have read that book too! V amusing.

NL and CD, loving the stroppy child/cross parent act.

How is everyone?

All ok here. K's bowels seem to be returning to normal service thanks God! B pissing me off though.

Happy Birthday Ange x

I'm shattered from fresh air & walking along the beach pushing the double pushchair across the sand

hope the house stuff is good news soon NL

how's T and sleeping katy?

ellie - bugger no internet at home

maveta - no idea on bros reply - but I will find out eventually

this penguin car seat - what make is it please?

Ooooh Oooggs - that sounds lovely - very boden catalogue

Elkie - we're not away till August so I should be here - a meet up would be lovely

SOL - act, what act - we are in deadly earnest you know

Oh and is the book Shopoholic and baby? 'Cos if so I've read that too - and if it isn't then you all need to read that as you will enjoy it!

NL, yep, sure is. I love the whole series of shopaholic!

I was indeed referring to Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella.

I love them too - they make me feels so good and thrifty

although it is very unrealistic when she says she bought her bugaboo because it was on sale. They are never on sale. I think Sophie Kinsella has one, and she told her husband it was in a sale and to keep up the deception she put it in her book (NL nods wisely)

I think the Shopaholic series has got a bit better as it's gone on. But I really couldn't resist the most recent one, baby shopping is just such a good subject for a funny story. I do wonder if she'll write another one about Shopaholic as an insanely competitive mummy.

She has got a new book out - not shopoholic one sadly - I wonder if it's any good? Elkie - yes I'm pretty sure we haven't seen the last of Ms Bloomwood yet!

Love the theory NL. But surely Madeleine Wickham aka Sophie Kinsella (she writes under both names) makes enough money to afford a bugaboo without having to justify it to her husband.