Can we have separate board for London

[antimatter]

Is there possibility to give us that?

I would like to be able to share my findings like a nice coffee shop I visited today and ask others to share their favourite finds.

Talk about local plays (musical theater or theater) or places and walks to visit not necessarily as a tourist but a Londoner.

To talk about history on London and various activities available for grown ups.

I've seen posts like that in chat and other boards in the past but they are hard to search for and obviously some disappear after a certain time.

NeverEverAnythingEver - I wish I could find as nice treat on the way to work for £1.20

but then some local cafes may be just as good and I'd like to learn about that!

sorry think link didn't work

And erm coffee shops. They're very Londoney too.

Oh my good lord just buy a copy of time out FFS

Or start a thread in chat

'BTW - criticising someone about bad spelling is a known tactic on the net, so I won't get drawn into this discussion'

seriously? A known tactic for what???

I think it's a good idea antimatter. You're quite right about the local boards being too specific. I live in one borough, work in another but often go out in all kinds of places - or am going out there and need to know about things like good restaurants, bars, etc

I don't think we need a separate London topic - maybe just an amalgamated local board?

antimatter I'm about to meet DS there. It's between home and school and I'm working from home today. :)

Also, one step further on the 'taking yourself seriously' scale and you will nearly be a hipster.

Be really careful.

And erm coffee shops. They're very Londoney too.

It's good for everyone else to mix with us and see that we're not all idiots, though.

Have you seen the thread in active ATM?

How the fuck does going to the theatre or on a walk differ when you are a Londoner compared to a tourist

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2579488-To-hate-this-Kind-of-sneering-attitude-to-places-outside-London?

Some people think we're all like that. Let's not give them ammunition.

I have a great capacity for not-hating. I can love London without hating other places. :)

Get with the times Hennifer you can't buy Time Out anymore. It's only available to pick up within zone 1 (which kind of defeats the object for Londoners outside) Though my info is probably out of date too

I'm not sure why wanting to talk about local issues etc automatically means hatred for other parts of the country?

I'd just like to be able to go to one local board to look at the recommended childcare (for example) rather than four different ones

PirateSmile - I think no tourist would walk 20 km on Wandle trial from Waddon Ponds near Croydon!

or pay £3 for TubeWalker

or have membership of any museums or galleries based in London

or go regularly to lunchtime concerts in City churches

Of course they would.

There's other stuff - half term activities, after school activities, etc etc.

Between us our family is in 5 different boroughs on a typical day. It's a pain having such narrow local boards.

Well I think it's a great idea.

And I also think the experience as a tourist is really different to living there. I'm moving there this summer and I'm going to want fuck tons of recommendations for shops to buy furniture, local restaurants/pubs/shops/coffee shops in the areas I live, walk through and work.

Also, even though London is huge people travel around it a lot to go to work and visit friends/areas - being on a local board is not enough.

I think it's a good idea too.
Sending us to MN Local kind of misses the point. Today my four yr old and I have spent time in four different London boroughs. This is not unusual. To suggest that I should join ten or fifteen different MN Local boroughs just to keep up is a bit
Also it would mean that all those threads about how to travel on the tube, when to visit the NHM etc would be in one place, which would save us constantly repeating our advice in Chat.

"Also it would mean that all those threads about how to travel on the tube, when to visit the NHM etc would be in one place"

If that was how it worked out, I think it could be very helpful.

It would rather depend on people actually using the topic though.

MN Local is pretty useless for Londoners, as the chances of you living, working, socialising and using/considering schools in a single borough is lower than non-Londoners might realise.

And if Yorkshire MNetters want a board, they could start a thread to scope views on that. But I can see it might make sense to start with the most populous region and see how it fares.

bibbitybobbityyhat - how would you find those hundreds of posts about London?

I am honestly interested because I remembered your post and searching for threads with word London is a bit pointless....
www.mumsnet.com/info/search?query=London

I've lived in London and visited as a tourist. It isn't that different and anyone who says it is is being a pretentious knob

Time Out, for those who moved out of London when it was in your newsagents, hasn't got local events listed any longer.

It is a free paper full of ads disguised as articles.

Of course it's different pirate

Tourists aren't interested in schools or clubs or property etc etc

I've lived in a few cities and my needs as a tourist are different to those of a resident. How is that pretentious?

why bother having the local boards for anywhere then?

Pirate - I agree. I've lived there, commuted there, visited as a tourist and well 'London just ain't that speshul!'.

I've eaten in London restaurants where you can get things like fresh asparagus dipped in quails eggs picked only that morning and sent by special courier for lunch time but then again that sort of thing just practically grows in the hedges round here.

London is its own little amazing bubble. Its also just another grubby overcrowded metropolis.