Lucy Mangan

[beanlet]

In guardian weekend today and last week, on late pregnancy and now in labour.... (can't post links cos I'm on the stupid iPhone, but they're no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners awesome opinion pieces that made me smile and weep a little cos I feel like we're SISTERS!!!!)

Bloody good luck to you! And try to stick with the BF even if it does hurt like buggery at first. It took me six weeks but after that it has been a dream.

(and I'm posting on AIBU because I'm being bloody unreasonable to have broken my mumsnet fast to post this, so pile on and flame me lovely harpies!)

I really like her. Sad to hear she had a bad time of it, and I hope she's OK now.

Agree with DirtyMartini, LM always strikes me as a clever and interesting person but either with nothing to write about or not allowed to write about anything interesting, hence the continual tedious ramblings about Toryboy, her parents (who are clearly perfectly nice normal people), etc. I liked her series about children's books in the Guardian and wish she'd do more 'content' driven writing.

Similarly with Zoe Williams, whose 'gosh I've had a baby' articles became very dull, but whose occasional pieces on feminism are really thoughtful and impressive.