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I've NEVER seen a buggy like this before - does anyone have one?

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bran · 13/08/2005 14:26

This one from Phil and Ted's. It could be fab for going on the bus, but do you think it would be easy to push?

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tiffini · 13/08/2005 23:10

People seeing you walk down the street will think you've lost the 2 front wheels bur still pushing it around.

Also when baby is asleep and you need to let go off the buggy, i.e paying for something, surely the baby will wake up, as they would be virtually vertical.

spidermama · 13/08/2005 23:11

It looks good. I often push my three wheeler along without putting the front wheel down.

spidermama · 13/08/2005 23:12

fuzzywuzzy I too have pushed my babes around in a wheelbarrow. At muddy festivals. Fantastic way to travel them.

zippy539 · 13/08/2005 23:15

DH is wondering how you actually get it onto the bus given you can't tip it up and 'wheel' it on using front wheels? Or does everywhere else but here have pavement level buses?

moondog · 13/08/2005 23:18

I love my E3,even if it has recently dawned on me that it is effectively a 21st century bathchair..

This however, is way out! Whole buggy scene getting ever so slightly barking don't you think?
Wouldn't the kid fall backwards if you let fgo off the handle?

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bran · 13/08/2005 23:22

You know the urge to buy it was wearing off, after all I do have 2 buggies already and ds has started walking , but now I think that this could be my one and only chance to be the first to do something on Mumsnet. I could be the Phil and Ted's Smart guru, the one who was ahead of the crowd.

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puff · 13/08/2005 23:24

lol at this thread and the buggy !

moondog · 13/08/2005 23:26

Errrhum..shouldn't you be packing puff???

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bran · 13/08/2005 23:26

On the other hand as Moondog said the buggies are getting very weird indeed, perhaps it's some sort of joke by Phil and Ted's to see how far they can muck up the basic buggy principle and still have some idiot buy it. Then I would the they only one on Mumsnet to fall for it, oh the shame

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puff · 13/08/2005 23:30

hehe moondog - can I confess that I have started filling my suitcase, despite departure being ages away (5.30pm on Saturday 27th August to be precise)!

moondog · 13/08/2005 23:32

Good for you gal,the build up is half (if not most!) of the fun!

moondog · 13/08/2005 23:35

There's one I've seen which seems basically to be a barstool wsith a weird crooked handle.

They've got to be taking the piss!

(I know here in Kurdistan-land of zero baby paraphernalia-people seem to assume I'm trundling a week's supply of kindling home when I'm out and about with said E3. They're shocked as hell to see a blonde,blue eyed baby in my cart!

(Haven't even dared get out the scary black sun canopy yet...)

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moondog · 13/08/2005 23:47

F888ing nuts innit????

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bran · 13/08/2005 23:48

This one, it's very ugly isn't it? At least the Phil and Ted's one is ugly and relatively cheap.

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ghost · 13/08/2005 23:56

sorry to but in, I d like to thank you all for giving me the best laugh of the day whilst I have been reading this thread. I was sitting here zombie like contemplating the washing, cleaning etc and other quality of life rituals that i havent done this evening and feeling thoroughly down.

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bran · 13/08/2005 23:57

This one converts to two wheels "for sand and snow". Also an outrageous £500. The Phil and Ted's is starting to look like a bargain.

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moondog · 13/08/2005 23:58

Barking!!!
(Glad we've made you laugh ghost!)

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bran · 13/08/2005 23:58

Yes Ghost, but would you laugh even more if I actually bought the thing?

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moondog · 14/08/2005 00:01

Bran,I'm ashamed to admit I did show the latter to dh when pg whittering about sand and snow. The incredulous look on his face ensured that the words died on my lips.

Annoyingly, I could have bloody well done with something I could have dragged across snow last winter when the snow was piled waist high and even the Phil&Ted in Turbo Moondog mode wasn't up to it!

(That was a grim time.....surprised we're still married tbh...)

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bran · 14/08/2005 00:04

Couldn't you have fitted mini-skis to the wheels Moondog? Perhaps also hired a small horse with bells on his harness to pull the pushchair for you?

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bran · 14/08/2005 00:05

I must go to bed - I've stopped making sense. It must be very late (or very early) in Kurdistan.

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ghost · 14/08/2005 00:06

No Bran, Honest - my mum brought (dragged) me up propper - she said I must never mock the afflicted as it wasnt their fault. And you know motherhood can sometime be a terrible affliction to ones sense of perspective - things that you would once never have consider like the pushchairs that are to normal pushchairs like popemobiles are to normal cars, suddenly become quirkly nay even trendy kitch objet d'art -

moondog · 14/08/2005 00:09

lol at you two!

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bran · 14/08/2005 00:09

I know what you mean Ghost - last weekend at a party I had a fascinating conversation with a very good looking young man about pushchairs [incredulous emoticon], I truly never believed that I would until I did. To be fair, he started the conversation, I would have picked something a bit racier as an opening gambit.

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