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New blog posts 9th to 15th October

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PetiteRaleuse · 09/10/2011 08:45

Good morning. I have started the week with a rant about getting old before my time here

This weekly series of threads has been great for my blog. Great for hits, great for feedback and great networking and discovery of other blogs. So don't just post and run, try and take a moment to look through what we've all got to offer. There's so much variety and great writing on here.

Also, this week is the MN week for their Miscarriage Code of Care Campaign. MmeLindor has been co-ordinating the blogging side of this so will be able to remind us how we can get involved if we wish.

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GraceWhoIsTired · 14/10/2011 16:40

Just put up a [[http://bloggingthetiredness.blogspot.com/2011/10/things-you-would-only-do-when-tired-2.html#comments fluffy kitteh type post]. Fear I may hitherto have been a bit earnestly boring...

GraceWhoIsTired · 14/10/2011 16:42

Ooops that's a fluffy kitteh type post...

MmeGuillotine · 14/10/2011 16:43

I once tried to have a conversation about admirable things about Hitler. It was very short lived but I tried my best before I stuttered to silence beneath the weight of incredulous stares.

MmeGuillotine · 14/10/2011 16:44

Note, I think Hitler was a DREADFUL PERSON but, you know, I was trained to look at both sides of the coin, no matter how grubby.

TiarasTimeOutsAndTantrums · 14/10/2011 16:51

I've had that conversation about Stalin. People refuse to look at potential good things when faced with a barrage of bad ones

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PetiteRaleuse · 14/10/2011 17:00

Yes I have had that kind of conversation too. It's a great way to bring a really fun dinner party to a crashing early end :)

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MmeGuillotine · 14/10/2011 17:09

It's best saved for the really boring ones that you are longing to escape... ;)

TiarasTimeOutsAndTantrums · 14/10/2011 17:58

I'll bear that in mind.

I may bring it up at my history tutorial tomorrow. My tutor thinks I'm a nutjob different for the Churchill opinion as it is!

TiarasTimeOutsAndTantrums · 14/10/2011 18:18

Thefoxsbrush- your blog is lovely! I'm tempted by the dollhouse but my grandad has been looking forward to making DD hers since she was born!
Where did you get it from though out of interest?

FlamingoBingo · 14/10/2011 18:50

LOL MmeG - can just imagine you saying 'well he can't have been all bad' Grin

Petite - sorry - crossed wires :) Agree - RL is rarely interesting enough to write fiction about if you stick 100% to the truth!

Churchill was my Grandpa's Godfather...

SallyDon · 14/10/2011 20:23

Hilary Mantel says that she put aside the received wisdom about Thomas Cromwell and went back to the source documents. She found him to be a much more sympathetic character than we have been led to believe he was, history having been written by the ruling classes of the time, who hated the fact that he was born a commoner. Apparently the bits about him taking in waifs and strays and giving them jobs was accurate.

Sorry to continue the historathon, I'm reading blog posts as well, promise.
Have had Friday night wine which may explain rambling and any bad grammar.

Sally

Trills · 14/10/2011 20:39

A pink post, no bunting but some cupcakes.

Trills · 14/10/2011 20:42

Go on, tell us something admirable about Hitler?!

FlamingoBingo · 14/10/2011 22:42

his moustache was very neat

MmeGuillotine · 14/10/2011 23:06

He liked dogs.

MmeGuillotine · 14/10/2011 23:30

A gushing review of My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin, which was rather ace. I know my audience so have accompanied it with some nice pictures of 1890s evening dresses...

Trills · 14/10/2011 23:32

Is liking dogs a positive thing? Are people who dislike dogs bad people?

MmeGuillotine · 14/10/2011 23:38

I had to think of something that made him sound at least vaguely okay. It's a lot harder now that apparently he wasn't really a vegetarian!

I also think there's something rather appealing about the way he apparently used to spend hours lying on sofas, gorging himself on chocolate cake like a jilted bride in a Jilly Cooper novel.

MmeGuillotine · 14/10/2011 23:39

whispers I don't like dogs. I am probably a bad person.

Trills · 14/10/2011 23:40

Pet the dog.

In Jilly Copper land liking dogs does make you a good person. So does dyslexia. Anyone with dyslexia is terminally well-intentioned. Even if they mess things up they always mean well.

MmeGuillotine · 14/10/2011 23:43

Haha. I grew up on a shooting estate surrounded by slavering bloody stupid Retrievers a la a Jilly Cooper heroine, but they make me feel nervous now. I have dyspraxia though so am redeemed by being charmingly clumsy. Possibly.

Trills · 14/10/2011 23:44

You can be the cute clumsy girl

MmeGuillotine · 14/10/2011 23:52

Is there an un-cute clumsy girl option?

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PetiteRaleuse · 15/10/2011 12:16

A rant in support of Jamie Oliver here

Jilly Cooper now there's a literary genius. Except the last one.

I once discussed with a friend what characters we'd be and she said I'd be Cameron in Rivals. Which annoyed me immensely. I'd like to be Tab Blush coz she ends up with Rupert

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TheGoktor · 15/10/2011 12:30

Hello everyone - new Mumsnetter blogger here! Just wanted to flag up my last two blog posts (yesterday and today)....I hope it's OK to do that here. :-)

Yesterday's is essential reading for the males in our lives!

icanyoucanwecan-blog.blogspot.com/2011/10/for-good-of-all-womankind.html

And today's is a yummy meat-free burger recipe. Nom!

icanyoucanwecan-blog.blogspot.com/2011/10/recipericetta-quinoa-and-cheese-patties.html

Love Petite's advice to not just post here and run - I'm going off now to read your blogs! [hgrin]

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