I want to buy a play tower/climbing thingy for my sons and I live in Scotland.

[figleaf]

We have just moved. In Bristol my boys had a tree house but due to this being a new house and its bare garden we cant do that here so we thought we'd buy them a play tower. (open sided shed on stilts - ladder, slide etc)Some of these things cost thousands and you could actually live in them but a few are quite reasonably priced at £300 (ish) . We ordered one on line last night from prezzybox. They said delivery would be free if the order was over £40 but today they want £230 to deliver to central Scotland. Good grief we live in Alloa not Mars!!
Does anyone know of a site that will give free delivery on such products or better still a company in Northern GB or Scotland who make/sell this type of thing?

Bumping before I go to bath my boys so that I can read the answer later (I hope).

Outside campus is not realistic, Figleaf. No idea about the parking permit thing but the Macrobert is a big public access arts centre so there will be some straightforward way to deal visitors when you get to the gates. I wouldn't worry about it.

Thanks - see you later

Deep apologies ladies - bit of an emergency this morning. DS (6 months) who we discovered has a dairy allergy when we started weaning was prescribed vitamin drops yesterday. Gave them to him this morning and he had quite a severe reaction to them. They contain peanut oil - I am quite cross to say the least that a pediatric allery consultant bloody prescribed them. Anyhoo I spent all morning and most of the afternoon having DS observed at the Hospital - luckily whilst his face & eyes were badly swollen his tongue and airways remained clear.

I am very sorry and I do hope at least a few of you managed to meet and have a coffee. I am usually very reliable and would love to catch you with you all soon - she says in the style of a lonely heart column

how awful gomez. Is DS out of hospital now?

Just me and suis today but we had a good chat and a few cups of coffee plus I got to hold her sweet little 9 week old -a real treat for a mum whose 'baby' has their 6th birthday party tomorrow.

Shall we give it another go in a week or two? I could put up a thread title in the meetup section with peoples names in (suis, juliemarch06, ja9, tassis ect.) or maybe somthing like Stirling, Alloa and hillfoots meet up.

Macrobert is a really good place, I took away lots of leaflets.

Good grief Gomez, that must have been very scary. Hope he's doing OK now.

Figleaf - It was really good to meet you today, hope the party goes well tomorrow. Good idea on the new thread and on organising for in a couple of weeks time, I would certainly be up for another blether !

DS is absolutely fine - we were sent home from hospital yesterday afternoon. He was to be honest neither up nor down, apart from rubbing his and he soon stopped that after he got some anti-histimaine. It is the on-going nightmare that I am slightly more concerned with - we only started weaning about a fortnight ago and have so far discovered a dairy and a peanut allergy. What other treats lie ahead .

Anyhoo I am so plesed that you guys managed to get it together I was really concerned that Figleaf was going to be on her own wandering about accosting random ladies with babies trying to find a mumsnetter. I am more than up for it in a week or two - would be nice if we could catch Tassis, Ja9 etc. so your idea sounds great Figleaf. I look out for the thread.

How did the party go Figleaf ?

It went really well thanks suis. 6 boys turned up in the end, all in fancy dress. With my two boys that made 8 so it was a good number for games etc. The play tower got a good old test too.
I'd say the birthday has melted the ice a tad with some P1 mums, bit early to say how much. Ds2's actual Birthday is tomorrow so I`m sending in sweets for the rest of the class.

Figleaf - details of that jousting event I told you about on this page. Scroll down the list to July 1st events. Don't know if it mentions the archers, but they will be there.

jousting at Culzean

.. and I'm glad the party went well. I'm sure it's a wee boost for you and your DS2

Thanks

I started the new thread on the meetups section earlier today but no takers yet. Perhaps one or two of you have a watch on this thread. I was suggesting coffee next week?

Forgot to say Wed or Thur around 10.30