to secretly love this vomit-inducing, my-life-is-so-awesome 'mommy' blog...

[moraletotallydestroyedbypoopoo]

taza-and-husband.blogspot.com/

I really really like your writing style FearfulYank. It's funny and depreciating and insightful and considered in well-balanced measure.
(see I can totally enjoy blogs when they are well written!)

FearfulYank Your logophillia post is just along the lines of what I was thinking this morning. Your blog is fantastic, I find your style very easy to read.

Oh thank you! All of you made my night. :)

Oooh I can't help but wince at the words "Mom" or "Mommy"! I know they're probably an Americanism but it just sounds so wholesome. I have such a love-hate thing with all these blogs. Everyone is so fecking happy and fulfilled, sitting in a patch of sunlight on a crisp autumnal morning wearing wrist-warmers (WRIST WARMERS FGS!!!) hugging huge rainbow coloured/spotty mugs of steaming tea while their babies sleep... I'll just go and get my camera and photograph my cup of tea and perhaps get a shot of my big woolly socks on my jolly rug whilst I'm at it. I am drawn to them though and am left feeling empty and inadequate afterwards.

Fair play though at least they are "creating" something even if it is a complete fiction or a canny means of getting a book deal. Parenting with crappy pictures is absolutely BRILLIANT though - Toddler Hallucinations is so surreal and funny. THAT'S the kind of stuff I need to get me through parenting on a daily basis so thanks to whoever linked to that. A lot of the other stuff is like the equivalent of Property Porn (I am struggling to think of an equivalent phrase in relation to these "Mommy" blogs but can't without it feeling grossly inappropriate!)

I am sure there are spoofs out there but then they'd be like all those competitive slack-parenting threads on here where people try and outdo each other on how crap they are ie. Someone starts off bragging about how they've never made a homemade sauce in their life and it disintegrates into tales of lying on the sofa drinking gin whilst their 5 year old does the ironing.

Maybe writing a blog motivates you to actually DO more stuff - like you're being watched/judged and therefore have to step up to the mark?? I would be scared of disappearing up my own arse

Oh God FearfulYank I just noticed you linked to your blog and you use the phrase Mom . Please forgive me my irrational prejudice against that word - your blog has substance and is well written and I shall read it in more detail tomorrow I promise (am up far too late AGAIN {bad Mom Mother emoticon}).

I think I've decided I'd be crap at blogging

It's okay cartblanche, I say Mom because I'm American. :) And I stay up far, far too late too and then screech at my son and walk around with a general air of grumpiness. No worries!

MmeLindor how do I get to Bloggers Network? I googled it but I couldn't find it.

I think blogs are the new magazines. The problem is that the very nature of blogging gives the illusion of reality and intimacy of everyday life but is no more real than those bunting cupcake magazine articles. Unfortunately I cannot seem to get that in my head and I still read then with envy, wondering why my blog and my life can't look like that. I don't think I could even create that illusion of a life let alone pretend my whole life is like that!

Fellatio if you look in the top blue bar on a Mn page there should be something about blogs.

Thanks for your understanding FearfulYank [hsmile]

God that is vommy. How did she get so many sponsors?

Fellatio and FearfulYank
Join us on the Bloggers Network www.mumsnet.com/bloggers-network

The first time I saw Cherry Menlove's blog, I said that it wasn't real. Now a book deal. I foresee a range of homewares imminently. I still stand by what I say. Marketing people have grown wise to how things get 'sold' online

workingmumonverge.blogspot.com/

your link

Christ on a bike, I just sicked up a bit in my mouth.
Ya(n)bu.

Does anyone remember the article / blog about the couple who had a house full of twigs, pebbly-shit and nautical wank who would row down the river in their little boat on Christmas morning delivering largesse to their neighbours?

It was massively taken the piss out of discussed here but I can't find it. Far, far more amusing than the earnest Mormons.

I have just boaked at that video. WTFF?

I can't MmeLindor ! Mine hasn't been updated in the last month.

But I will update it and then I'd be thrilled to join!

Question: Is the MN bloggers' network available for anyone to search and read if they just google 'blogs' or is it only accessible through MN? Can I have a different name on my blog to on my MN account? Only my mother has taken to madly googling anything to do with the place I have just moved to (tis driving me mad, I tell you - she keeps telling me all about the new community I am living in ) and I don't paticularly at all want her finding me on MN. I hate the way our posts are googlable.

FN
You can have a separate identity for you blog - just tell MNHQ which name you want to use for the blog. I think it is not a bad idea to have the name of blog as posting name, might do that myself actually.

So as long as you remember to namechange to blog name before posting on MN about your blog, your Mum won't find you here under FN.

Like this

(tis MmeLindor)

It worries me too
My mum is similar grr
she once said something to me about a comment I had made on a non mutual friends blog

I don't mind her reading my blog but I don't want her coming back to me on here

I have posted before about my blog in my normal posting name but if I post a few times with the new blog linked posting name maybe people won't look back any further.

I need to think about the description of when I apply toothat stumped me last time I thought about it. Not sure garbled shit. e with a load of pictures does it

Look the yanks think mummy sounds ridiculous and I have to agree.mommy is just their word as is mama.don,t pick on yanks.they are on average much nicerbthan us miserable cynical Brits with our misguided superiority complex to all other nations.

Oh dear lord. I just had a look at Kelle Hampton. Who takes favours to the birth of the child and fecking wine glasses with name of said child on it for those attending?

Astonishing