To get really irritated by Zoe Williams?

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I don't buy the Guardian every day but did today - there were 4 pages of G2 devoted to an excerpt from Zoe Williams' new book about babies.

Jesus God, has she ever said anything original, witty or useful?

On the radio she can't actually construct a sentence properly whilst speaking and keeps giggling inanely.

And it still sets my teeth on edge when I think about those revolting socks she wore in the photo for the "things you only notice if you work from home" column.

I wonder when she'll wake up and realise she's not the only person ever to become a mother.

She also has a bap face and stringy hair.

and breath

What was that article about today?

yabu and a bitch.

"she's not the only person ever to become a mother."

That is where you are wrong. She is the only mother on the planet so we must rush out and buy her book so she can carry on repopulating.

I read a excerpt, and I thought it was very funny.

She seems to have had almost identical pregnancies to me, which probably helped.

So YABU.

I thought the excerpt was funny, and had some interesting things to say. I generally findher stuff amusing.

I am slightly < adopts patronising air > suspicious of pronouncements on parenting made by people whose oldest child is a toddler. I have only amassed my vast wisdom through years of 20:20 hindsight.

So YABU, and a bit mean

Haven't read the article today, but I generally like her take on life and it makes me laugh.

I don't like the insults on her personal appearance on this thread, though. Totally unnecessary.

I hated that article today so I think no.

Interestingly I was once at an event with a panel,of which she was a member, with teenage students and they HATED her. They found her really patronising and smug. I ended up having to defend her to them . I actually didn't think she was that bad that day but kids are generally good judges of character IMO.

I used to like ZW til she started that awful 'Anti-natal' [sic] column where she really truly was the first person ever to get pregnant. This book reads like a collection and exaggeration of all the really bad bits from her column.

Though I did enjoy the one where she tried to work out how she'd managed to be 20 weeks pg with her second DC without realising she was even pg.

TBH, I'd fed up with the Guardian/observer just publishing excerpts from their writers' latest compilation of Guardian/Observer columns. V lazy (and yes, Lucy Mangan, that means you as well).

And did anyone else see those TWO articles by different siblings in the Guardian/Observer this weekend, both about the house they grew up in and again, an excerpt from a book one of them had writtern.

Leave Zoe alone. Um, that's it really. I like her.

Fair enough you may not like her writing. Yabu to make nasty comments about how she looks.

Denise Van Outen is the only person ever to become a mother AND lose the baby weight in 10 days. Maybe a buggy race is in order between Zoe/Myleene/Denise to decide the ultimate celebrity mam. Am sickeningly jealous obviously.