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to be furious with dh for eating cakes he knew were destined for the bin!

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alfrex · 21/01/2013 14:57

OK. I bake a lot. And sometimes my cakes are beautiful, and we all enjoy them. But sometimes it does not go so well and the cakes come out sunk or burnt or still wet in the middle (if dh would get the fan fixed on the oven this would happen a lot less often, but that's another thread)

There is a system, dh and the children are well aware of it. If the cakes are good to eat, they either go in a freezer bag for later use, or in a sealed tin for use over the week, or on a plate on the side so that they can be eaten now. DH knows this and I never complain about him "sampling" even if th cakes are meant for after dinner or whatever. I bake a lot so there is usually something there if he fancies a nibble.

If the cakes are not up to scratch, they go in the bin as soon as they are cooled (or as soon as dh empties the bin - there's another thread there!)

so this morning dh saunters into the kitchen to get himself breakfast. I come in and find him cramming his mouth with the burnt, crappy cakes that were sitting in the bun tray by the bin. I was really pissed off and had a go at him for it. I can make really nice cakes and I make plenty of them, so he has no need to wind me up and embarrass me by eating the ones that have gone wrong. He know it is a pet hate of mine.

so he strops off to work having called me a "control freak" in front of our children who were sitting having their breakfast. I am Not Happy.

KateSMumsnet · 21/01/2013 16:50

Hi everyone,

Thanks to everyone who reported this thread to us. We can assure anyone who was worried that the OP is a regular MN and we have absolutely no concerns about her posting history/intentions. Please stick to the guidelines and cool it with the PAs and trollhunting.

SnowLiviaMumsnet · 21/01/2013 22:52

Evening all
Please do check our guidelines
but be sure not to open the oven too early or they may sink.

HelenMumsnet · 21/01/2013 23:32

Evening.

Just though it was worth saying that when this thread started - and when the first reports came in to us at HQ - we were a bit taken in, too. Blush

We could see that alfrex was Greensleeves but we actually thought she was just a bit of a crap cook - and having a sense of humour fail. (Sorry, Greeny!)

Hence our initial post to reassure people that the OP was a regular MNer.

We actually weren't smart enough to be in on the joke, Greeny. Though bless you for thinking that we were!

We weren't alerted to this thread again until this evening - by which time the MNHQer on duty had assumed (understandably) that we knew it was a wind-up and were just playing along.

We don't think this kind of wind-up thread is trolling but, had we realised it was a wind-up at the outset, we wouldn't have posted as we did. Apols for that.

HelenMumsnet · 21/01/2013 23:36

Blush Blush

HelenMumsnet · 22/01/2013 10:27

@seeker

Just to be clear- I think the thread was fantastic, really funny and I fell for it like a good 'un.

It was the apparent MNHQ involvement that I didn't like. Of course you can't tell who's real and who's not, and you have to keep a sceptical eye open, but if a thread gets the Towers Imprimatur it think it's reasonable for people to think it's likely to be real. However bonkers.

Interesting how many people seemed to know from the beginning it was a joke! Grin

Totally agree, seeker. As you'll see in our (rather embarrassing) post earlier in the thread, the only reason we posted at the beginning of the thread was that we were taken in, too - and were posting to reassure folks who were worried that alfrex was in fact an MN regular.

If we'd realised it was a (totally unmalicious) wind-up, we wouldn't have posted. And we would, as we usually do, have replied to anyone who contacted us that we could see if was an MN regular who was probably having a bit of fun.

HelenMumsnet · 22/01/2013 10:32

@CheerMum

Another sense of humour failure here. Seems to me that you are allowed to troll if you're part of the right clique. Think I'll have a break from mumsnet for a while.

No, that's not true.

If you look at our Talk Guidelines, you'll see that we define a troll as 'someone who poses as someone else in order to stir up trouble, deceive and mislead, or just to fulfil their own perverted agenda'.

We don't think this was what Greensleeves was doing. At all.

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