The OFFICIAL buddy bench/naughty bench thread No. 3

[teaandcakeplease]

Come hither all those who haven't found their place on mumsnet, have scrapped in Aibu or crossed words in chat. The buddy bench shalt not judge.

The buddy bench will hand out wine and cakes, it will join you on your scoffathons getting pissed

All those who enter the Gazebo and sit on the bench, will have their sins erased and be given a warm welcome and cheerful chat from CheerfulYank, gomummy, tired mum, Elmo, AF, HE, Cheesey and far, far too many more to mention.

Welcome to the buddy bench, we look forward to meeting you all

Oh and don't forget, last one to leave polishes bench and locks up !

Cheerful!

DS sings Frosty the Snowman, entertained our gaggle of guests whilst I finished off preparing Christmas dinner, ikwym about him being so proud! :) Wish this age didn't go by so fast!

That's what DS did with Rudolph, gomummy. Anywhere we went, he'd ask if he should sing it and then burst right in without waiting for an answer. :o

Ahhh so lovely to read all the responses on here

Cheerful, that's adorable!

We (by we I mean Minnesota) have a new governer today. I quite like the sound of him; we'll see how things go. He's calling for everyone to start volunteering, to pull together and help get everyone back to work, to realize that we can't do what we need to do without tax increases. He says "if anyone can do it, we can," which will strike a chord I'm sure. Minnesotans, by and large are quite a proud and stubborn determined lot. I'm lucky to live here.

:)

So...that's what's going on here. What's up with you, Benchers?

Congrats on the new governor Cheerful, sounds positive. Difficult to be a politician in these economic times. I think it is so lovely that you feel lucky to live where you do. I feel the same way. Wish more people did. Read this a thing once about the key to "happiness" being appreciation of things like that and it stuck with me a bit I guess.

Was reading earlier about the US twins born in different years! Illinois I think? (Hope I spelled that right )

News here is mainly that our weather is much warmer than usual. Lots of snow but very far from the usual brutal January cold. Been very nice, though DH keeps ruining it by saying it just means we'll get it all later in the year and spring won't come until June, lol!

"Read this a thing"

Read this thing
Read a thing

either way but not both, lol!

Wish me luck, my mum is coming today, I haven't seen her since that disastrous Monday Christmas family get together, I had a moan on my AIBU thread last night but no one responded, it's getting too long and old I think.

Was my son's birthday yesterday, did I say? He's now 2 bless him, yesterday was a good day with PIL and my ex H. Mum is coming by today to drop his present off.

Hello :)

Is this the place for newbies to introduce themselves? I've been lurking for ages but joined the other day. It all seems VERY busy here........... eeek!

You can hang out here of course, it's fairly quiet on here though

Stay away from Am I Being Unreasonable topic area if I were you though

Oh yes - think quiet might be a good thing for the time being

Hi Valium, and welcome. :) Been quiet on the bench lately, but we're a friendly bunch with lots of virtual goodies to eat!

Welcome Valiumredead

Hi , How is everyone doing ? Mumsnet made it into the Irish mirror newspaper there's an article in it about how the eastenders saga has upset thousands of mumsnetters & that the scrip writers are considering a change in the outcome of the story line ...

I love the letter mumsnet sent, just read it.

Hello Ooooooooo people said hello ( I feel all warm and fuzzy!)

LOL Valium (loving your name btw), what made you take the plunge from being a lurker to joining?

Are either of your newspapers online Elmo or Tea? I'd like to read the letter.

www.mirror.co.uk/search.cfm?what=mumsnet+letter&Search=Search

Sorry don't think this link will work gomummy .

gomummygo I used to post a looooooooong time ago on BMC but they brought in subs and I left on principle. Looked on here but it seemed VERY big and scary compared to BMC. Then more and more members from BMC started posting here, so I was very brave and joined

[saddo emoticon ]

I was practicing my bold there gomummygo

Just grow a thick skin, valium, and you'll be fine. And if you can't, just come cry on the Bench when people are mean to you. :o Welcome! We're always nice here on the Buddy Bench.

Good job with your link, Elmo ! :)

I like the letter too. At first I was like, "well it's a soap opera, they're always ridiculous", but then I thought, "how would I feel if I were a grieving mother..."

I love the influence of mumsnet. I've always thought that it takes a lot of women to really get things done

I'm baffled as getting emails from a stranger that says she has gotten my email address from mumsnet
her emails go straight into my Junk box
Anyone ever had this ?

Well that is how it used to work before the new private message function, what does she want?

Thanks Tea

That's the thing though her emails are not coming through via mumsnet & I've been having trouble with my PC the last few days as a Trojan has been detected etc .
The email goes straight into the "junk" box & when i click delete it opens up , all its says is
"Hi im x & i was googling mumsnet & found your email address & want to ask you a question about single mothers "
very weird.

Hmmm maybe a hoax or a spam mail. Delete delete delete!

My recommendation is spybot search and destroy, it's free and very good. Download it asap.