Walking in a Crepey Wonderland!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

I couldn't see that anyone else had started a new thread, after Stropps carelessly finished the old one without starting a new one, so here you are.

I only joined for Couch to 5K and low carbing with BIWI, then I fell in with you lot!

Mouldy gate was quite a while ago but I remember feeling the same Auriga . Somehow mn felt smaller then. I've been here since 2003 ( ten 10 X ) whole years.
Originally came on for adoption support.
MI definitely book yourself a break .

Dd did her re sit of English lit paper yesterday. Apparently it was ' horrific'
We may ceremoniously burn Gatsby once the chimney has been swept today..,

Definitely, Rudy. Shared interests so important with one's kids

Re going away myself: the thing is, DP is happy to run up an overdraft. I'm not. (It's his overdraft not on our joint account.) also, he gets paid leave and I don't - which is a point that hadn't really struck me till just now (dur-ur). Having said all that, you are also right about seizing the day: he keeps suggesting I go off and perhaps I should call his bluff. I worry a lot about money. He doesn't. (My finances are a lot healthier than his a result, though. Have pension and all.)

Mouldigate was a bunch of regulars going off and forming their own closed forum. It caused a lot of hurt and upset, as it was invite-only.

I have been here since 2003 as well. I found Mumsnet by googling "pinafore dresses for girls" . My most surreal moment back then was chatting to someone in the "bar" at about 1 in the morning and discovering that she lived about three streets away from me. Even more bizarre, because I was living in Belgium at the time.

DH and I both worry about money, but he is a lot more profligate than me when it comes to spending money on himself. I also seem to get stung for everything to do with the DC, such as DD1's extortionate orthodontist, which in my view should come out of the joint account. The good news on that front is that the orthodontist thinks DD1 should be finished with her braces by Easter, so only a few more appointments. The bad news is that DD2 gets her braces fitted next month, but I think her treatment is on the NHS, and we have been told that her braces will only be on for about 18 months to 2 years - one side of her mouth is perfectly in alignment and the other side has one tooth out of kilter. Quite amazing, considering she sucked her thumb till she was 9.

Wasn't Mouldies not only invite only, but you had to be vetted by the other members? One of my RL friends, who is also a MNer was REALLY upset by it, as she essentially got dumped by people she thought were "real friends" - in that they were people she socialised with. She is, err, quite forthright, so she told them what she thought of them all, and just got on with life. I wonder if any of them felt guilty?

Crikey. Mouldigate sounds horrible. Just because friends aren't 'real life' doesn't mean you can dispense with acting decently. I used to be on a forum in the early noughties which was small and populated by very clever, funny people. But some of them used their powers for evil and could be incredibly cutting and horrible. It upset me as much as if it were a real life person.

That was an amazing forum. Of the 30 or so regulars, there were about five marriages, plus children.

I think I joined mumsnet in about 2005/6, googling about miscarriages I think.

As for money, I tend not to worry about it - and am consequently massively overdrawn with no pension. DP does worry about it, but earns about eight (8, VIII) times as much as me. I put it down to our upbringings: mine was middle class professional, building their own homes, playing one mortgage off another, the odd hairy moment but it all turned out OK, whereas DP's were much more working class, hand-to-mouth, never borrowing money except from family type stuff.

Early 2002 for me, miscarriage-related. Also searching for sense of humour in relation to MIL problems (much harder to find that on MN these days, IMO). Went to a few meet-ups, invited ppl round to house etc.

Have looked for congenial forums elsewhere but never really clicked with any of them. Do you all have second homes somewhere on t'interweb?

My period has come back unexpectedly. I blame DD1, who was here yesterday, wafting around like the Lady of Shalott.

Re second home - God, no, I would get even less done!

I am having a clear out - can anyone use a ski suit, age 12 in bright red, for one of their offspring or that of a friend? I can bring it along next Friday. If not, it is going to the charity shop. It's quite a large age 12 - DD2 used it last year when she was about 5'4" and it still fitted fine.

M

Oops. My first home on the internet was a mailing list for translators (in fact my v first home was a Usenet group, back in the day). The group has now essentially migrated to a "secret" group on FB. All RL names only. This is how I met dh. There have been several marriages in the group over the years and one proposal is in the archives. I started looking at MN in about 2005, but wasn't impressed and didn't start posting until several years later. I de-regged at one stage. I was mainly not here during Mouldygate, but was on a private forum with someone who was, er, very much involved, so was told all about it anyway. It sounded ... odd. As did the NYE thing. I have really only ever posted here and don't really bother much with the rest of MN.

Oh and I left that private forum not long after Mouldygate... I have had RL contact with some of the v nice people from there and am FB friends with them. Dd is also FB friends with the daughter of one of them. But I ended up feeling very claustrophobic in the small group, as I felt a strong pressure to conform with groupthink.

My school thing next Friday has fizzled out so I could come to the meet-up after all - would that be OK?

God yes I remember the vetting thing and how incensed people got. It was all very unpleasant and then blew up again one year when someone happens to mention it in passing! Been here on and off since 2003 - found it via a link in Rough guide to pregnancy.... MI is the only one I recall from the early days so unless the rest of you name changed?....

Just looked at a private school and whilst the facilities were good (as you'd expect) dp isn't keen....

Lalsy, do come!

At the risk of sounding sentimental, I do in fact feel at home on this thread in a way I haven't elsewhere. Though also have a number of friends who, shall we say, took their custom elsewhere.

I joined MN in 2003 after reading a piece in the Guardian - took a look, sceptically, and was unexpectedly gripped. Asked about home birth. In fact a few months later my waters broke while I was posting and I kept posting for a while and came back at 4am to say DONE!

Oh lalsy - yes - come along

Yes, do come, Lalsy. If you live near Addle, we can wobble back on the bus together.

I name changed. I was Tanzie. MI suggested that Eva Braun wouldn't be a fabulous choice of name, which is one of the reasons that I ended up with Mrs Schadenfreude (because I am married to Mr Schadenfreude, not because I revel in it).

BD, I was eemie for a long time - never very prolific, though.

Lovely, thank you .

I have some rather chilly volunteering to do in the day, so will probably come straight from it in my Woolovers best.

Oh I remember Tanzie ;)
I was/am not prolific either.... This is home, I'll stop here awhile ;)

Hooray, Lalsy! Am very pleased.

MI I think maybe you need to adjust how you think about having time off. As a baby step towards going on that choir week do you have a friend you could visit for a few days so that you could work if you needed to but would not be in charge of domestic stuff?

I remember Mouldygate. I never posted in those days but even so it was all rather horrible.

[change of tone] I'm very excited because I tried a HFW red cabbage salad last night - chopped finely with carrot and parsley and a mustard/garlic vinaigrette - v pretty AND tasty AND presumably healthy. And the red cabbage has finally been used up.