Join army of proud mums

Dec 3 2009 by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle

I AM writing to tell you about a brand new way to make new friends in Chester in the hope that you might write something about it in your paper to encourage as many mums as possible to join in.

My name is Jemma and I have volunteered to be the chair-mum for the newly formed Chester branch of Netmums Meetups.

I know from experience that the best source of advice and support comes from other mums, but I also know that these days, we are unlikely to live near our extended families or the friends we grew up with – and so when we do have our children we are faced with starting to build a whole new set of friends.

Netmums.com is a local 'social network' for mums, with thousands of members in this area, but so far it’s been up to each member to arrange to make friends through the site.

We’ve set up a local group to make it easier.

On 9 December 2009 the first ever official Netmums Meetup for Mums will take place in Chester.

We’ll be meeting at The Twirl of Hay in Boughton, at 10.30am.

The event is an informal and friendly way for mums to meet up and get to know other mums in the area.

Mums can just turn up, they’ll know us as we’ll have balloons, be wearing our Netmums T-shirts and we’ll look like we are having fun!

If they are feeling nervous or would like some more information, they can log on to Netmums in advance and chat online to us about who will be there and what we will be doing. If they feel nervous they can drop me an email before hand and I will make sure they feel welcome.

For further details log on to www.netmums.com/ west-cheshire.

If you’d like any more information please do drop me a line or call me on 07849110343

JEMMA PRITCHARD

Pooper scoop is the answer

TOO many of you are not picking up your dogs’ droppings, leaving worried owners like myself, picking up after you. Why? Because we have an obligation to do so.

Also we have councillors in Frodsham wanting to close green patches of Frodsham just because they are overgrown, giving some councillors the right to say they are dangerous.

Just imagine walking over football pitches and playgrounds littered with dog dirt.

I am disabled and my dog is my companion, whom I take for walks four times a day, and has helped my health condition.

I am very frustrated at people (not all) coming in cars with dogs just to empty them out and leave without cleaning up after themselves.

It is not fair for football teams to have to clean up before they can play.

Mums and dads, it is great to see kids walking dogs but please teach them good ownership, armed with a rubber glove and an old carrier bag.

This is not hard and they will come to grow up respecting the community.

It’s bad enough after a weekend to pick up empty beer bottles, broken sometimes.

Please respect our public areas.

A VERY CONCERNED RESIDENT