Here and there with every chair, push chair that is......

[Honeydragon]

Okaaaaay, new thread, new addictions, newly hammered bank accounts abound.

There's new Smarts for sale at £128 and a bit in Lullabys closing down sale. I am pondering if I should buy anything....a Maci Cosi Elea? A Buzz? Single Nipper????

thanks you but the smart will have to wait, i have found a sn pushchair that don't scream sn's at first glance, so i am going to try to get that, i am hoping i will be able to custom make some bits for it as well.

Which one's that prams? I really like our Jazz but there is a Bugaboo lookalike that I really really wanted before we found the Jazz that looks very 'mainstream' for want of a better word.

You kept the Peg Perego Book quiet, suzie! The one hand fold looks nice and easy without exposing the seat fabric to dirt like the BJCM does. I wonder whether M&P will sell it.

That is a nice looking stroller suzie! Love the fold as easy as a BJogger but folds in on it's self so the seat doesn't get dirty.

The Special Tomato EIO looks like a reasonably attractive special needs pushchair. I guess you already know about it though.

Truth, great minds!

The Ormesa Bug (can't link direct to it but try google) looks really good and the seat comes in different colours.

The Otto KIWI is the SN buggy that looks like a Bugaboo.

This is my beloved Jazz. It's a tonne and a half but it's certainly comfortable for DD2 (and DD2 is fairly happy in it too).

The Otto Bock Kiwi is really nice looking and I love that the handle flips over and that you can turn the seat round. It really is like a SN Cameleon.

It's a shame the Kiwi only holds up to 25kg. That doesn't seem like a lot to me.

Thanks for the SN links. I have booked marked them for future reference. I lovvvveeee The Book. It looks great! I like that it's parent or outward facing with an easy fold. The two things I am not sure about the handle, and the hoods looks quite shallow, or is it just the videos show the seat reclined? Great styling though!

You'd be surprised at how long it takes to get to 25kg.

DD1 is about 118cm and is only just over 20kg (she's 5.7y/o). I'd imagine that it would take a lot of children to school age at least before they out grew the weight.

DD2 who is in the size 1 Jazz and is only about 16kg and she is about 105cm tall. I think the size 2 would have been a better be height wise but then it would have had to have been bought from new (so £2000-2500 rather than £200!). I'm hoping we won't need to get the larger size - we certainly won't outgrow it by weight as the max for the size 1 is 35kg!!

i do like the tomato, the kiwi and the jazz, but i only need one for keeping ds safe and undercontrol, don't need one that adjusts etc, nothing exciting i just thought the mountain buggy terrain sn one did not look that bad, its only the foot rest that gives it away and i thought i could get this powder coated black and make a nice liner and hood for it to cheer it up. but they don't come along very often so thought i best get it while i can.
i love the Peg Perego Book, i wonder when its due out.

prams, have you powder coated a pushchair before? I keep thinking about doing it to my Gecko but never get round to phoning around.

yes my ds is 5.5 years and he is not 20kg yet, so the verve is great at the moment, but i know come end of next year he will be over this and i really can not go out for the day if i don't have the option of being able to put him in a pushchair when busy/crowded/traffic/too noisey etc and on top of that he refuses to walk sometimes.

aswellasyou, no i have not, but dp seems to know all about it and where to take it, just don't know on price, but when i find out more i will let you know.

Thankyou prams. I'd thought 25kg wasn't a lot since I know quite a few babies who are 12-13kg at 12 months and I was imagining using it to 8-9 years old. But then you'd just choose something else if your child was likely to grow out of it quickly.

I did have a look at the MB SN ones but they come up so infrequently that when the Jazz came up I had to get it even though it meant a round trip to Leeds which is only 400-ish miles

My heavy 3 year old is about 15.5kgs. I am certainly looking now at high weight pushchairs for DS. DD is comfy in the Peach and the Easywalker so am hoping those will do us until 4ish but we will see what comes through the door this year!

so far i have had the stares and comments behind my back that i hear
but no one has had the nerve to say anything direct to my face, although did have one old man who insisted on talking to ds even though ds would not even look at him, let alone talk to him and all of a sudden ds jumped up and down waving his arms about shouting really loudly grasshopper grasshopper, the man stood up shocked said oh and walked off serves him right for talking to him. ds is good at shouting things out with out warning, like last summer on the way home 'hello ladies' over and over again, which then changed to 'hello bubbies' , i do give lots of looks back when people stare, have waved before now, don't understand the problem some people have with older children in pushchairs.

boobies not bubbies my spelling is bad

Well DD3 is still 3 (just she's 4 at the end of November) so I wouldn't say 15.5kg was heavy (unless of course she is only about 80cm tall [I remember you saying she is tall so hope I haven't put my foot in it!]).

On another note my back is killing me from taking the Combi into town today to do some shopping. No suspension, handle is just slightly too low (even worse with shopping on the handle), crappy recline (DD3 lurked forward when we went up a curb and fell asleep again on the 'napper' bar with the back al the way forward). Erk I need a new pram....

Having sellers remorse for the Flyer but it was so big when folded (and a bit rubbish to steer). Why can I not find a flat fold, large basketed, tall handled, comfy to push pushchair? One that DD3 can sleep in with out her having her teeth shaken out of her head when we go over railway crossings/those ribbed/dotted paving slabs.

what about that one tiggy has just bought, its an easywalker qtro it looks really comfy

My issues with people making comments to DD2 or standing 3 feet from her are well documented on MN now. The latest one was a mum at playschool saying to DD2 'Look at that big BABY'. To her face FFS.

I'm am on a hair trigger now and may blow at the next person. I only hope it doesn't come to it tomorrow as we are going to hell soft play for DD3's birthday treat with my dad & Stepmum. At least DH will be there so he might restrain me.

prams - that does look good, really good but I think the price would finish DH off!