S. London 1/2 term meet up anyone?

[bochead]

Does anyone fancy a coffee at the Horniman's Museum on Thurs 1st November at 10 am?

I'm taking DS & his bessie there for the day, but it would be nice just to say "Hi" if anyone fancies it.

There's a small charge for the aquarium & they've just done up the Gardens, so it should be a fairly nice place to visit - with both indoor and outdoor options to keep the kids entertained.

I thought we could meet in the morning in case it gets too overrun with judgey pants types later in the day. The museum's coffee shop is easy to spot when you arrive.

Thursday would be great.

Friday Friday Friday!!!!!! - no? Okay Thursday it is then, I'll see if can juggle a few things and make it on Thursday

So shall we say Thursday 1st Nov at 10.30am - Star is this ok with you? You have farthest to travel...
Boc - where is the best place to meet?
I'd like to if I may, to set one rule, should any of our dc do any of their "things" we don't apologise for it to each other - we do enough of that everywhere we go - this little meeting is an official time off saying sorry, trying to control everything and best of all worrying about stares and judgement. Any takers?

I vote we stick our thumbs in our ears and sing "nah nah nah" to any lemon sucky faces

p.s Knowing my luck I'll bump into one of the snooty patooties I was at school with all Bodened up with their 2.4 lil angels, just as my lad does his Bart Simpson impression lol!

Where to meet? I'll sit by the entrance to the coffee shop with a paper carrot (even for you lot I'll not willingly endure the hell that is an IKEA shopping experience).

Hahaha

Boc - thought we'd agreed to call them the Cath Kidson mums! CKM's - where life is one big round of organic coffee shops discussing how dc's are developing and out-doing each other on how advanced dc are, and handy tips in parenting.. Up the crack of dawn and squeezing in at the very least 10 parks a day. All baby clubs are joined and attended en-mass, and god forbid they ever talk to anyone outside of their group!
Little Tarquin has been started on a Rosetta Stone foreign language by 18mths - they are afterall little sponges at that age. By the age of 2yrs schools have been viewed and little Tarquin is reading the Lord of the Rings with Cath Kidson dad - CKD's. Oh and snacks are generally raw veg and organic fruit. Never a breadstick or biscuit in site. At no point ever does a CKM or CKD show the slightest sign of embarrassment should dc "play up" - instead they kneel down and loudly speak to dc like an adult.
They truly excel when they have quite happily ignored their dc for an hour (these dc will have gone into over-tired manic mode after being to all the clubs, parks and cafes) or so whilst they discuss Bodens latest offering - your own dc goes into melt down. CKM's stop all conversation and turn their Boden heads toward you and your dc and stare (despite having successfully ignored you for the past hour).
I assume this phenomenon isn't only restricted to my area??

frizz- we must live in the same area or vv similar. We are in one of the London villages in a ruff bit - a safehaven from the plebs lurking around the corner where the SN Dcs can be identified a mile off [hwink]

frizzcat ha ha you've been hanging round my dd's nursery haven't you Hate to admit it but tbh it would've been hard for me to escape becoming one of those 'types' had it not been for ds's asd I'm very thankful for that, actually.

donburi come along too!

I am north of the river though - do I dare venture across? [hhmm]

Friday would have worked out better tbh but I may just make it

Bit too far from me but happy to do any that are central or my end of London

OK tomorrow it is then 10.30 am Hornimans museum cafe.

I'll pop a cardboard carrot on our table

(be warned - ds will still be coming down from the sugar rush that is Halloween)

If the gardens are too cold tomorrow the aquarium now carries a small charge to enter (never used to so thought I warn anyone who hasn't been for a while to bring their purse).

Well done boc - couldn't find this thread. I'm still planning on going

And bumping this one too

We're in the conservatory!

Hope you are all having a nice time.we got to the museum but couldn't get DS in cafe for love or money(toy from shop/biscuit from cafe). Did pop my head round but couldn't see any carrots!!!
Went round museum anyway,then tried again
at the end but this time DD just wanted to get out as was too busy.did see a group in the conservatory as we left and I thought it might be you lot.tried to persuade them again but they just wanted to go home.
Gosh,,I sound like a right stalker now, would have been lovely to have met you all but sometimes just as you think your child's issues are becoming less and less,something like this makes the ASD blindingly obvious.
Oh well,a high this week was getting DS into
the cinema for the first time!
Hope you all have a lovely day!

So gutted I couldn't come to this - dd is just too poorly. Hope you all had a super time

Oh jussi I think I saw you!! We were coming through the glass door to the cafe as you were trying to get your ds in and I so nearly said something but thought I might look like an idiot if you weren't part of the group iyswim! Wish I had now

Will pm you and let's try again.

On the bright side how great that he went to the cinema

Hi all, Hope those who did meet up had a great time.

Another one who tried but didn't quite succeed. Sympathies to jussi, as you couldn't get my ds to go anywhere if he wasn't keen, but great to hear he coped with the cinema.

My older two were not in a sociable mood but I brought dd2 (who is ready to talk to everyone and in fact did accost several cute looking babies, having been promised the prospect of meeting star's youngest). She even coped with the embarrassment of her mother wandering around the museum with a rough sketch of a carrot on a napkin from the cafe protruding from her rucksack). Perhaps not that surprising that people kept well clear of us...

Anyway, I'm sure this means I really need on of those fancy internet on the go phones for Christmas so next time I can work out that it's cjn with the lead piping in the conservatory.

I left the giant orange paper carrot clipped to the cheese plant in the conservatory...............

Ooops.

I hope you didn't want it back boch

Err, 'with the lead piping' the only time I've heard a saying anything like this is in reference to lead pipes delivering poisonous water.... Oh dear, terribly sorry if I inadvertantly offended anyone. I certainly didn't mean to.

I thought of you all. If DH wasn't on holiday I would have joined you. He didn't want to do the Horniman, he wanted to do IWM instead.
Next time can you pick a day when DH is at work - it's much easier with 3 DCs on my own than 3 DCs and a tantrummy DH

Ah ha. Pinko, you played Cluedo! DP just got home and so did he (unlike myself who grew up with a renovation obsessed mother). So glad large feet weren't stuck in it.

cjn, no offence implied at all, just a jokey reference to the board-game Cluedo, based on me being rubbish at working out where people were. Sorry if it sounded like I was being rude.

No worries! See previous post , bit slow on the uptake here , clearly !

We can have another meet up in the Xmas/New Year gap or just after. Perhaps somewhere more central? I'm thinking of the Southbank in terms of easy for everyone to get to, as a couple of N. Londoners would have liked to have said hello. However my mind's at a total blank for a specific venue? Any ideas?

DS was at his most delightful yesterday/sarc, so LOTS of sympathies from me for those who weren't up for it.