Am I being unreasonable in hating these articles by journalists who are just showing off their families?

[ipanemagirl]

articles like this just make me want to chunder. Does her family really want to be paraded about like this? Isn't it just a bit weird?

Sorry but there seem to be all these 30 something 40 something women journalists who can't do anything except write dull lightweight pieces of family journalistic bragging.
Yuck.

Back from nursery run. Glad to see there are plenty of others who think Obs Woman is drivel. Jess C-M gets (or used to get...?) her hair cut in the same place as me. Random trivia.

personally I prefer not to see the photos of the people who write either.. especially when they are really smug and posing.

makes me dislike what they have written before I have read it..

Especially when they are ancient photos. I remember when Julie Burchill used to write her column in the Guardian. She got away with a b&w pic of her as a sulky teenager for years.

one of the probs with having no tv is that I am unreasonably shocked when seeing these people's pictures. For most, I would really prefer not to know

(James Naughtie being a good case in point)

yes, ha ha, mind you don't blame her (JB) as she now looks similar facially to plob of dough with 2 currants pushed in really hard

It's all very 'look at me' aren't I 'doing well' 'I get paid to write a smug commentary and say what I please..'

they are enormously, insufferably smug

well as long as everyone realises that's exactly what these column are: (mostly) drivel written by one person. My dad and dh's mum still say things like 'They reckon now that every school is run by gangs of hoodies.' When asked who 'they' are, turns out it will be some idiot columnist.

And she's not me. Or Edam. Or Aitch. Or Bakedpotato. Or Aloha. Or Gimli. Or Porpoise. Or any of the other journalists on MN.

moomin my m and d are the same
they hear ONE perosn viewpoint( liek a retd coonel ata dinner party) hten that is the FACT

The articles which annoy me the most are those where they pick a few families to do something 'fun' in the holidays. They are always from a city (invariably London) and then describe in incredibly patronising tones what fun it can be to go for a walk and 'discover nature' as if no-one had ever thought of it before! The fashion lot are a nightmare too - the things they suggest for 'relaxing at the week-end' wouldn't stand up to any real outdoors use and at £500+ an outfit are laughable.

I hate those where they make an assertion about some supposed cultural trend, then "interview" four or five women (it's almost always women) to validate this. You know the sort of thing - "Caroline, 37, who runs her own aromatherapy business in Cheltenham, agrees." They're all friends of the journo. Or made up.

or got of the media appeals bu on mn,

the sunday times style section is partic bad on this

NO i htink i may haev the winner& htough
those articles vor spas abroad you get in january. some freebie fort he journo...

a dn the worst was a centre parcs article in the times last week hold on ill find it

oh yes how it did chellenge his ideas..

travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/where_to_stay/article3184339.ece

lok att he comments underneath

My Mum is like that too. We were disputing something at Christmas and she had the cheek to say 'Well I have been reading newspapers for longer than you.'
Of course she has, so it doesn't matter that I have been a sodding JOURNALIST for almost 20 years. I have no idea how newspapers work.

motherinferior....at least there are traffic wardens and tax men, eh

LOL Cod! The beaming photo!

Baby-on-bike ponces

AA Gill and family go Vienna

"It was suggested that I took my newish twins. So mother, babies, nanny and Tom the photographer and I all went to Vienna for a winter weekend. Weekend breaks have become a feature of the northern European life that cuts leisure time like cucumber sandwiches into little triangles."

Oh, Barf @ ipanemagirl

Also Cod, that centerparcs article started with the biggest cliches of all these blardy articles - a fake marital bit of tension:
?It?s set in 400 bloody acres of woodland, you moron. How do you think they?d put a dome over that??

agree

barf.........

what a wanker

what about naming your VW camper van?

"First a confession: we call our VW camper van Vincent as in Vincent 'Van' Gogh, geddit? Oh well, it was my wife Sally's idea anyway. Vincent, our only vehicle, has been a fully-fledged member of the family for five years but the summer is when he comes into his own."

original article

I object to that artical because there's no picture of Vincent (I should add I didn't actually read the article). We had a VW campervan as a kid and it was great. But we called it "the bus" which I hope ios more socially acceptable! I though the knitting article was just a bit boring. But then I don't read newspapers except when visiting my parents, so maye I'm not tuned into the right vibes...