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Lurking Merkins - Volume Two of Under the Duvet of Darkness

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Boiledbeetle · 04/11/2023 08:00

"Under the Duvet of Darkness Volume Two Lurking Merkins" is now live on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ

This a thread about a book about a thread about a book about a thread! (I think I’ve got the correct number of books and threads in there)

There are over 160 poems written by over 40 different Mumsnet usernames contained within its 208 pages.

There are also 12 Lurking Merkin poems lurking throughout the book!

It can take a few days for it to become fully searchable so the link below will take you straight to it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ

It's available worldwide so if anyone needs the link for a site other than the UK let me know and I can give you the link to the relevant Amazon site.

IMPORTANT BIT:

Whilst written entirely by Mumsnet users this book is not, I repeat NOT, published with Mumsnet’s express permission or co-operation.

It is published with the express permission and co-operation of the individual writers themselves.

Can anyone who tweets about it link directly to the book on Amazon or my Twitter profile:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ
or
https://twitter.com/TheBoiledbeetle

rather than to this MN thread.

Thank you everyone who let me use their poems, without you there would be no book!

Boiledbeetle XX

Lurking Merkins - Volume Two of Under the Duvet of Darkness

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IcakethereforeIam · 05/11/2023 23:56

🤣 Hemmed it!

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Boiledbeetle · 05/11/2023 22:53

@BonfireLady Its not like it's going anywhere it will still be available by the time you've finished volume 1! There's a few people who know in real life who am I and thankfully they all know to keep quiet. One person knew me as Boiled first and continues to call me that despite now knowing my real name after I accidentally outed myself to her via email one day by signing off with my real name!

@IcakethereforeIam see you on the other side!

@ArcaneWireless as would I! And I will admit now I can just look at it (well the proof anyway) as a book rather than a load of pages that I never thought I'd ever sort into something coherent I think it looks not too shabby!

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ArcaneWireless · 05/11/2023 22:33

I’d love to know what the lady of the merkin thinks.

All I know is that we women won’t have let her down. 😍

IcakethereforeIam · 05/11/2023 22:23

I'm going in, wish me luck!

BonfireLady · 05/11/2023 22:12

I'm getting a serious case of FOMO now! 😬😬😬
I will be ordering it as soon as I have finished reading the poems in Volume One.
My best friend knows my user name and my husband knows about the poem I wrote, but otherwise I am currently destined to be one of the anonymous future grannies. However, that's not my plan. At some point I'll be stepping out of anonymity in this whole awful mess. Ideally on my own terms rather than being doxxed but the more I continue my IRL conversations in the way that I am doing, the closer I guess I get to that. For now, an anonymous poem in print, to go along with my anonymous article on Transgender Trend, will do just nicely.

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Boiledbeetle · 05/11/2023 20:40

@IcakethereforeIam well enjoy it when you get some alone time!

@Swashbuckled hopefully they won't think we had lost the plot and everyone else were the sane ones!

@ArcaneWireless if your mum reads this book she'll finally work out which one you are as she is referenced in the enlightenment of one of your poems!

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Boiledbeetle · 05/11/2023 20:34

I'm just debating whether I should be nervous about the fact that the last I heard from the merkin lady herself was that she was on the way to her door to get her copy of the book... I've not heard a word since! And that was 3 and a half hours ago! It's either because she is blown away by the brilliance of the book or she's plotting ways to kill me!!

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Boiledbeetle · 05/11/2023 20:30

This is @Whatthechicken poem, which is one of the ones that wasn't on the UTDOD threads but on the Denise Farmy v the Arts Council thread.

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ArcaneWireless · 05/11/2023 20:02

Thank you chicken and thank you beetle

I’m sure I missed plenty of names!

I confess to having a fondness for that one. I’m surprised I managed to summon up creative juices that day. I may have gone a bit rogue with the rage ower bonus holes 🤨

Mam still doesn’t know who I am. She’d probably hope I was one of the polite ones!!! 🤣

Swashbuckled · 05/11/2023 19:58

Love this poem @ArcaneWireless

I really do wonder what future generations will think when they read this book, as someone said above.

Feels like we’re naming, and dissecting, the great psychosis of our time.

IcakethereforeIam · 05/11/2023 19:45

Not yet
Child and bloke are watching an American Werewolf in London with the light off for atmosphere 👻

I'm going to wait until they've gone to bed 😠.

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Boiledbeetle · 05/11/2023 19:29

Whatthechicken · 05/11/2023 19:18

I read 'Bonus' out loud to my husband...he laughed a lot, now has a wider vocabulary and a slightly different view of Mumsnet! Brilliant poem!

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I'm sure @ArcaneWireless knows which of her poems that is, but for those that don't 👇

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Boiledbeetle · 05/11/2023 19:26

@Bowednotbroken excellent news!

@ArcaneWireless @Swashbuckled I've got someone who isn't being theirs until at least Thursday so far North in the middle of nowhere are they! Hopefully you'd still arrive (unlike mine!)

@DialSquare ❤

@CyclingSam has the rabbit eaten the corner of your new book?

@IcakethereforeIam have you opened it yet?

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Whatthechicken · 05/11/2023 19:18

ArcaneWireless · 05/11/2023 18:19

As I am on the frozen north, I fully expect mine (as promised) to be here Tuesday. Last time it was early though so you never can tell. 😊.

I read 'Bonus' out loud to my husband...he laughed a lot, now has a wider vocabulary and a slightly different view of Mumsnet! Brilliant poem!

Swashbuckled · 05/11/2023 19:14

Mine says it's due Tuesday or Wednesday (Frozen North also).

Hope not delayed longer than that...

IcakethereforeIam · 05/11/2023 19:01

I've been out all day, my bloke got the notification that it had been delivered while we were in a Waterstone's (coincidentally while I was asking one of the sales staff if they had Graham Linehan's new book (they had one copy 😡 tucked away with the other new titles (but oddly Time to Think and Sharron Davies' book were displayed quite prominently!))...?). Got back home and I've held it 😃. Not looked in it yet, I feel weirdly self-conscious.

CyclingSam · 05/11/2023 18:53

I spend a lot of time on the floor with Chompsky. Note to self: don't set book down near hungry rabbit.

DialSquare · 05/11/2023 18:43

Well done Boiled and everyone else who contributed.

I didn't this time but will still order in support.

ArcaneWireless · 05/11/2023 18:19

As I am on the frozen north, I fully expect mine (as promised) to be here Tuesday. Last time it was early though so you never can tell. 😊.

Bowednotbroken · 05/11/2023 18:19

Mines arrived too! Yay! Thank you Beetle - what an amazing amount of work. X

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Boiledbeetle · 05/11/2023 17:58

I don't want to get a refund! I want the very first book ever ordered of volume two to be delivered!!!!!!!

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LarkLane · 05/11/2023 17:48

Mine isn't coming today. it's now expected tomorrow!

Noooo! How unfair! It's a plot!

howdoesatoastermaketoast · 05/11/2023 17:07

"flick ahead. do it. do it. do it!"

I can resist anything except temptation @Boiledbeetle

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Boiledbeetle · 05/11/2023 17:06

Mine isn't coming today. it's now expected tomorrow!

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Boiledbeetle · 05/11/2023 16:59

I will admit I've just used your photos on Twitter! Which is generating some link clicks through to the book page!

@CervixSampler Sorry for making you cry! and love 'triangle of femininity!' (That triangle cost me a meal out!) Hope your daughter is suitably teenager impressed!

@howdoesatoastermaketoast You flipped ahead didn't you! 😉

@Motorina I'm not jealous in the slightest!!!! (silently curses Amazon for toying with me like this)

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