MN's 10th Birthday Party competition - write a Haiku about MN and win a golden ticket. To be judged by the Poet Laureate. (Not kidding!)

Thanks to everyone at Mumsnet especially Catherine and Olivia for all they did to look after us MN-ers and guests - they were very, very generous to us and made us feel very special. The evening was amazing - wouldn't have missed it for the world - meeting so many funny, lovely and interesting Mumsnetters and guests, including a couple of very nice DHs who rose gallantly to the challenge of being outnumbered

The champagne flowed all night and we were fed on all number of delicious things. Except cake. We missed out on the cake!

Right, I know what I am wearing. Have new shoes. Have had eyeborws done. Hair has just been dyed. I have even treated myself to a new mascara.

oh sorry we are in LK Rosenheim.

no i eman where in bavaria!

MN HQ, I think it would be better to do a new thread/sticky with the winners and their haiku's ? Would save trawling thru.

Oh, the link. Sorry, I just realised it didnt go directly to the photo.

Click on Shirts then Tops, and it is the 4th one along, at the end of the first row.

where what??

night by night
where?

As I haven't seen my top yet, and have no feeling for what Boden is like (though it looks very nice on the models), I am also bringing a top from a brilliant German label, Taifun, which I love. But I have got a cardigan to go with it, rather than a jacket, which is probably also what I would have if I were coming straight from work. German offices tend to be informal.
Taifun top:
www.house-of-gerryweber.de/index_TC_de.html

Apples, I too have been the laughing stock of the Cool Gang in my time. Happily now too old to care any more!

Choosy you have made me smile I too shall admit to having to dust off my makeup prior to applying it on Tuesday
I shall be semi-smart on Tuesday, or at least try to be! I've never been very good at dressing up. It's a huge effort to not put trainers on, so I am quite looking forward to seeing what other shoes I actually own because I have forgotten! I blame having a child. I used to be a make-up and clothing queen before DS was born!

Oh I love living here - too much. Have roots miles deep now despite only being here 7 years. But London seems a bit fast these days.

I love Oxford. Often go there - from country-bumpkin-land (Cotswolds.) Loved Love in a Cold Climate too with the marvellous Bolter.

"Having to" wear our Boden item has actually removed some anxiety for me. Otherwise I would have been worrying about misjudging the dress-code entirely, such as the time I turned up in a pink taffeta puffball gown to a school disco and was the laughing-stock of the Cool Gang.

Well I live in a small town out in the sticks in rural Bavaria!
I do visit Munich, but only to gawp in passing at they smart town folks in their posh clobber.

I must look out my makeup, last seen when I went to the Oktoberfest in 2008. That's probably the last time I wore anything other than jeans as well (a dirndl).

Oxford.

Have you ever read Nancy Mitford's bit from Love in a Cold Climate about visiting London while living in Oxford?

"My clothes, so nice, so suitable for The George, so admired by the other dons' wives ('My dear, where did you get that lovely tweed?') were, I realised, almost bizarre in their dowdiness. It was the floating panels of taffeta all over again."

I'm not implying anything against Boden here - I'm loving my freebie much. But cutting edge it is not.

where are you coming from, choosy?

Oh cripes. I've only just realised that it won't be just the ten of us plus a couple of site bods. I'm going to feel like such a hick from the sticks.

[sends dh out to buy The Week and Nature]

oh grown up
phew.

oh god there wont be KIDS there will there..

I meant to post that in S&B - oh well!

My dress has come! It's really rather nice - a little striking, perhaps - but hopefully not in a way that will make partygoers wince and shade their eyes. I'm pleased with it! Going to have to dash round small-local-town on Monday hoping to find a shrug that will go with, as the one I have clashes.

Anyone else got theirs? I thought the postcard inside with good wishes for a fab time at the party was a nice touch.

I'd like to know who's going to be there, too. I wonder if Johnny will want to 'admire' his line-up of Beauxden Belles!

I would have liked to too, I was actually slight disappointed when DH said he wanted to come

I'm taking DH, I was surprised he wanted to come actually, but I think it is just for the pizza

Right, does anyone know who is going to be there that I should know of? I feel like I need to do some research so as not to sound like a completely uneducated mummy from the sticks!