In Thinking The MN 10th Bash Could Have Been More Charitable?

[Highlander]

apologies if I've missed something, but....

it's the boring old MNers themselves who have highlighted all the almost-taboo aspects of parenting

2nd trimester miscarriages
special needs
breast feeding and all its proiblems
the Nestle issue

etc etc etc

So why the flash sleb-fawning party? I kind of feel MNHQ forgot the real reason why MN is so successfull. Were the guests hand-picked so that they wouldn't embarrass Carrie and Justine by bringing up the issues we MNers care about with the PM and his wife?

Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to have the guest bring along a bag of their favourite biscuits and donate the money they would have spent on catering to a charity chosen by us?

what Wilf and SM said.

Lol me smile though

Hey, now: more no fawning. Please. SM and I are mere mortals.

we are words on a screen.

Agree with Wilf. I think if i had started a business 10 years ago, and it had grown into something as vast as MN, i'd want champagne and the PM, not broken biscuits in a village hall. Good for them they have a lot to celebrate. We all feel ownership, which must be both a blessing and a curse to the actual owners, which is why everyone has an opinion, but at the end of the day we all get a lot out of mn or we wouldn't still be here.

I am going to host an exclusive party to celebrate wilf's post. There will be balloons and haikus and wilf will deliver a spoken rendition of her post in 3 different and contrasting styles.

Everyone is invited.

Except you, you, you and you. So ner.

slight hijack
but could someone please tell me
what is a Haiku ??

Haiku is a poem
That has set number of
Syllables and is 3 lines, I think

But I can't remember the rules, which is why I didn't enter the competition. That, and I am not a creative soul. And couldn't be bothered

haiku

apparently they are supposed to contain a "seasonal reference"

Did the winning ones contain seasonal references? Did they??? Eh?

By 2shoes Sat 06-Mar-10 21:24:15
slight hijack
but could someone please tell me
what is a Haiku ??

You were never going to get an invite were you 2shoes?

I think 2shoes post was a double bluff#

As it looks like a haiku.

Although she hasn't included a seasonal reference, so I may be wrong

Perhaps Justine should have just bought us all a goat from Oxfam?

only us working mums would want a bribepressie.the martyr mums dont want for anything just an occasional brillo pad for in the shower.as they gave up all materiel consumer durables for maximus

OP is BVFU

ouch sm, but you make me LOL

applauds boco
LOL at goats

this like the oscars.kate winslett will turn up greetin next.all mascara and more ham than greggs

all the claps and chorus of i agree

makes me quite bilious

you blardy contrary mary.

Then she's buggered it up.The first line only has 3 syllables.

but of course!

exactly, boco, esp about the blessing and the curse of us all. why can't people just be HAPPY for justine et al and gracious about what they've achieved?

why do people go all lesbo crush over scottish mummy? have seen this before, strange....

it's because she's the bea smith of prisoner cell block mn.

some people erronoeusly think mn owes them something.