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 is Abbott and Costello

its like lossom hill - but classy

about 5 times a year mumcentre.

hahaha@Custy behave

ok..so I can plan ahead...is it usually a weekend away or some such?

blossom hill?a croydon suburb?reaction to aggressive waxing

v nice if your hill blossoms

LOLOL @ llike blossom hill but classy

it was used a bit in rain man.

yes its usually a saturday

hokey dokey...probably not this time...but later in the year..sounds good!

omg.you are right.saturday night,conjecture and gossip.wonder what y'all on about

right you're on!

custy are you admitting to a predilection for talking shite on a saturday

not just a saturday, that;s v. limiting

oh my good god...I googled dragon butter! Never again!

oh i thought you like posting half cut?esp sat night

I'm well tempted to google that drangon butter!..I googled munting I mean how bad can it be?..

no i dont drink on a saturday as a rule. maye a friday night - but only a friday...usually

dragon butter v munting
dragon butter wins
what a night!

Oh hell no!..munting wins hands down in the grossness stakes!..Dragonbutter is like bad-breath..good mouthwash/spray can mask that...

tbh, it's all sick and now I can't sleep with this new knowledge!

There ought to be a thread called..nevergoogle...
What an education!

There have been many threads that lead to the urban dictionary. Not started by me I will add. The irony being that I am the only one who will NEVER google. I've learned my lesson.

@cyb thee party DID look like a political rally to me, I was more interested in the canapes and the sucking up looked pretty ott guests having to wear bloody Boden etc pointed tese things out on another forum and some suggested that I was Gina Ford in troll livery

This post is mean spirited, bitter and small minded. And deeply unpleasant.

Why on earth shouldn't Justine and Carrie celebrate their 10 years of hard work? And where does it say that MN started out as a social enterprise? I think if you asked either Justine or Carrie they would say that they always anticipated it to be a business - but I don't think they anticipated not taking a salary out of it for 5 years. Most business fail in their first year, and there are very few left after ten years, so bloody well done to them, I say.

And as someone who was at the party (as a guest of one of the Haiku competition winners), it wasn't a political rally at all. It was a party with some jolly good speeches. And lots of champagne.

And where on earth was the sucking up, bernadette? The competition winners were given a prize by Boden - the dress/outfit of their choice. They didn't have to wear it. I think that - along with being put up in a hotel by Mumsnet and being sent out for dinner, in cars provided by Ford - was a pretty generous prize myself.

mn is a business,a brand built up from nowt.to a successful status and much notoriety if they want to party to celebrate i think they deserve it!this misplaced notion that mn owes posters any explanation is risible