East Dulwich Exiles....

[snowboarder]

Ok the Snowboarding family has sadly recently left ED in search of more space. It has suddenly hit me that whilst we have not gone far I know no one and there are very few places like the edf for meeting other mums. I think there are quite a few 'exiles' out there especially in the home counties and I wondered whether there was anyone our way and if they wanted to meet up? We are between Orpington and Sevenoaks....any friends out there who are up for setting up a north kent branch of the edf?!?

Or if you live anywhere else and want to find others maybe post here too?

(Hope can still stay here and chat in the family room though!!)

[Princess]

Sadly we're not close to you Snowboarder but if there are any other exiles in the Raynes Park/West Wimbledon area I'd love to know!

[Ruth_Baldock]

Princess, SB: Have you tried the netmums/mumsnet (I forget which) local meet ups site? Could the NCT help?

[jollybaby]

Hey Snowboarder - I heard on the grapevine that you were moving out this way. We moved to Sevenoaks at the beginning of February. We're slowly settling in but agree it's so much harder to meet others and find out what's on without the help of the EDF. I've been fortunate in that two of my NCT friends have also moved to Kent.

Please get in touch if you fancy meeting up - I'm around Tuesday afternoons and Fridays. Your boys would be very welcome to explore/destroy our garden or I can show you the delights of Hollybush park.

[Princess]

Hi Ruth, the mumsnet local sections over here are VERY quiet. My post from last year is still on the first page! The NCT isn't hugely active over here either. I don't miss a huge amount about our ED lives although I've lost count of the number of times we've said we miss the forum. I now realise I met about 90% of my mummy friends first time around via the EDF!

[snowboarder]

Ah JB I will pm you later this evening :-)

[ClareC]

We are in Kent too ..... We moved end March. We are in deepest darkest Kent (nr Ashford) but still only half an hour away given the lack of traffic and decent m0torway!

Love it here but agree it's far harder to find out what is going on locally etc! We are getting there slowly and had our first play date today :)

I found the Internet forums non existent/ unused too!

Surestart activities a bit hit and miss but the absolute gem has been the local free magazines, seems to be where everything is advertised! We found them in the local Tesco. We come under Tonbridge which may be close to you- seems to be lots going on there!

Agree we should have an exile group :)

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Best ways to find mums in your new area to meet is via netmums , I am chairmum of the local Bognor Regis group.

You can either attend the organised gatherings on the netmums local area thread or post an advert it respond to a meet a mum advert on there . It's a great website .

Nowhere is quite like Dulwich though , and the forum is just fabulous for organising meetings .