to be very, very glad that Jo Whiley isn't one of the mums at our school's gates?

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She's too perfect. I have read two interviews with her in the last few days and I would end up avoiding all contact with her if she was at the school gates. She shares a bed with her kids (odd, certainly, but they all snuggle up lovingly apparantly), her daughter was present at the birth of her youngest, they all sat in one Sunday afternoon and played Monopoly together, then had a lovely Sunday lunch. We stayed in, fought constantly, one was sent to bed early and we had beans on toast (honestly). She also has Chris Martin on speed dial. Sigh. She's a supermum and I would bitch about her at coffee mornings.

Actually i quite like her. And i have to point out that if i was being interviewed for a newspaper and they asked me about my family life i wouldn't say. Well, my house is really dirty and i can't get my children to sleep at night because it's too light at night at the moment and its driving me mad. I'd say, DS likes playing in his sandpit. Sometimes we go to the farm and DD loves the animals etc etc.
Interestingly DH thinks that all teh women at work have really good babies and perfect families because they never come in advertising the fact that they've been dealing with constant screaming on an evening, or whatever. I had to break it to him that we couldn't be unique.
Good luck to Jo.

Toddlerama - why would you need to know about her preferred menstrual sanitation method?!

I agree with Concordia. If I was interviewed for a newspaper I wouldn't say "I am such a academically-focused slattern that I had to get a book out of the library in order to find out how to mop a floor."* I would say "Welcome to my beauteous garden; see me reading an intellectual book as we eat home-made cupcakes in the scent of the honeysuckle. Look at DN in his designer Italian cardigan." Probably Jo Wiley is the same, and one of her children always wins at Monopoly and the rest only played because it was her turn to choose.

• It turns out to be technically very easy but good exercise for the arm muscles.

I'm not keen. Repeat after me Jo: Coldplay aren't hip.

She also reminds me of the Jigsaw mask from the SAW films.

i am alone on these boards for liking Martin and coldplay...oh and Jo

yes

fantastic

i steal the monopoly money.

we don't play any more

i like jo - i liked the live lounge on radio one.

i hate moyles hes a fat bastard turd. (dh lvoes him)

however i do think she has been hoisted by her own 'cool'petard

My daughter saw her younger sister being born, and I went as a "guest of the band" to see The Arctic Monkeys the other week. How cool am I

Hated it though, not my cuppa

She seems alright to me, nice woman by the sound of it.