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cherry menlove

86 replies

janet38 · 01/07/2011 14:17

am i being unreasonable but it is right to share your husbands illness with the world wide web?

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HazeltheMcWitch · 01/07/2011 14:58

After c. 30 secs of looking at Kellehapton, I conclude she is nothing like a Menlove!

For a start, her photography. Kelle's pics are STUNNING, she is clearly very talented. Cherry's pics are taken by someone else, of Cherry swanking around.

ACtually, Kelle's pics did make me smile. The 2 boys look exactly like their dad! And the girls look like a matching set too!

Pinkjenny · 01/07/2011 14:59

I am definitely going to start using the word 'swanking' quite a lot now.

SuePurblybilt · 01/07/2011 15:00

No, Kelle's site had lovely professional pictures and is funny in places. Plus nowhere near as staged. CM's is just a big list 'how to be like lovely me' and re-created scenes from Country Living.

I give you the music thing, I hate blogs that do that.

Pinkjenny · 01/07/2011 15:01

OK, I conclude that I am just bitter.

SuePurblybilt · 01/07/2011 15:03

Grin. No, PJ, you hate who you jolly well like.

Is PinkJenny a code word btw? It does give me rude thoughts.

DaisySteiner · 01/07/2011 15:05

I'm also getting the impression that Kelle actually does all these things because she wants to and enjoys them, whereas Cherry's raison d'etre is telling other people all about the fabulous things she's been doing iyswim.

scampadoodle · 01/07/2011 15:05

I'd never heard of this woman until I clicked on this thread & now I've seen her website I am torn between a) wanting to vomit, & b) sheer admiration in finding the time & energy to do all this stuff. The gardening, cooking, crafting, child-rearing, home-making... I mean, how???? I think that secretly I would like to be like that Blush & the desire to vomit is just me being enviously mean. Do you think she has Staff?
The sickly-sweet turn of phrase (yes, very American) is ghastly though. And I have to say the sheer ego involved in creating that kind of persona is breathtaking.

Pinkjenny · 01/07/2011 15:06

It's not a code word, no. I actually despise my nn, bloody crap and not at all clever.

I 'invented' it in 2006 when I first arrived at Mumsnet, all pregnant and hopeful about my future dc. Little did I know, eh? Little did I know.

Grin
ShirleyKnot · 01/07/2011 15:08

You should totally start telling people that it means something filthy and we could even make up a thing on Urban Dictionary to back it up.

Let's DO IT.

Pinkjenny · 01/07/2011 15:09

I'm in.

DaisySteiner · 01/07/2011 15:10

Of course she has staff. Who TF would be taking the pictures of her otherwise? Robert didn't make his money spending his time taking pictures of her swanning around with bows and ribbons (although I enjoy imagining him arriving home after a long day in The City, hoping for a beer and a sit down in front of the telly and Cherry grabbing him the second he walks in through the door and making him take lots of Lovely Photos)

ShirleyKnot · 01/07/2011 15:11

Um. OK do you want it to mean something about vagina's, penisisissisis, or titz or the act of LURVEMAKING.

(I am totally ruining this thread - sorry all)

kreecherlivesupstairs · 01/07/2011 15:11

A pinkjenny is a mildy inflamed fanjo flap. Everyyone knows that.
I don't know who Cherry Manlove is and don't intend to google. I am currently on a steam driven PC with no apparent abbreviation things.
It is a red letter day for me, I worked out what Sue Pirblybilt is. I thought it was a woman called Sue who lived in a southern seaside village.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 01/07/2011 15:12

Whoops, jumped in before the guide lines were posted. I stick to my mildly inflamed though.

scampadoodle · 01/07/2011 15:12

Thanks Daisy - I feel better now! Grin

MinnieBar · 01/07/2011 15:13

Who the fuck is she?? And how the fuck does she find time to do all this?

And how the especial fuck can you 'believe in the sun going down'?? It's not a matter of belief fgs. (Especially since it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round AS WE ALL BLOODY WELL KNOW.)

ShirleyKnot · 01/07/2011 15:13

Nickname Stealth Thread

Sorry all.

OTheHugeManatee · 01/07/2011 15:14

ShirleyKnot and PinkJenny I was gardening the other day and split one pot of mint into two. DP now insists that 'split the mint' is a euphemism for something disgusting though he hasn't yet specified what.

Surely a 'pink jenny' is the result of a Brazilian?

DaisySteiner · 01/07/2011 15:14

Don't keep reading the website though. I made that mistake and have progressed from Wanting to Vomit to Wanting to Shoot Myself.

ShirleyKnot · 01/07/2011 15:14

Come to the other thread Manateee

OTheHugeManatee · 01/07/2011 15:16

Shirley Already there.

Daisy Last time I spent more than five minutes on that website I actually had Cherry Menlove murder dreams for days Shock

Pinkjenny · 01/07/2011 15:20

Doesn't her sister work for her? I bet she secretly hates her.

janet38 · 01/07/2011 15:21

they look like a sweet couple and it is v sad what has happened to her husband. After reading her Posts I am feeling really sorry for her. It is a traumatic thing for family to cope with. I know.

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DaisySteiner · 01/07/2011 15:22

I can well believe that Manatee.

I made a cushion recently and gave serious consideration to emailing Cherry to explain why my method was superior to hers. Not one of my finest moments Blush

SuePurblybilt · 01/07/2011 16:06

PinkJenny makes me think of cock.

Grin at kreecher. Seaside village? Does everyone think I am actually called Sue and just too thick to change?
Probably.

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