had a chuckle over zoe williams on french woman in the grauniad yesterday...

[BoysOnToast]

article here

am going to take up saying 'bof' to stuff.

I loved that too. Don't you think that it was just like a very long, rather polished Mumsnet posting?

I think she is just a distillation of Mumsnet postings which has formed its own consciousness.

she is on mumsnet, but no one know who she is

well i certainly thought - 'ooh, theyd love that on mn' as i was reading it.

but what you said was cleverer, so, er, yeah! what threadworm said.

je t'aime zoe [pouts and trots off to apply day lipstick]

I tried 'bof' but couldn't do the necessary Gallic shrug

am currently employing 'pfft' instead

mais oui.

bof to you all. or toutes or something (dropped out of french)

Ah yes, this made me laugh out loud. 'Stop eating, you fat British munter because French women eat less than us and they are thinner.' Marvellous I've almost forgiven her for her terrible bossiness.

How to do the bof.

Recently the press have reported that French obesity rates were catching up with the Brits, who in turn are catching up with the Yanks, who are about as high on the lardy-arse-ograph as you can get.

So bof.

Please continue with your yik-yak.

while the global food crisis warms up.... oh isnt life just a dream?

yikyakyikyak

Zoe Williams has been ON FORM this week

I have read a few things by her that have been excellent

I really enjoyed that feature. She has taken the baby goggles off and is back to classic style again.

oh link to more then mp, could do with cheering up

This is definitely written by someone who lurks on MN

I liked her interview with the woman who wrote a book about her therapy

I love her anti natal column. Especially her description of being so tired that when one of her baby's legs got caught up in his sling and she couldn't feel it her first thought was that she had left it in the shop and her second was that meant she would have to back for it. made me laugh out of familiarity!

oh now thats def a mner... and its not aitch

i like the slug pellet analogy. i shall quote that at some point when i think people are being tiresomely dogmatic. (which i would never do, oh no)

she wrote a comment piece about breast surgery in yesterday's paper but I can't find it online

'twas thoughtful and funny

And she is the restuarant critic in the telegraph magazine I think. She has a great job!

so she gets to bum around on mn, eat at loads of restaurants, spend the rest of the time talking to interesting folk and reading stuff... and then write about it (which is fun if it comes naturally)

omg! this woman has the life i want!

I liked the frenchwomen article alot

and from the BLW article
' It's never enough for some parents just to make a decision and for that decision to have a lot in its favour. All other parents have to make the same decision or else be negligent, or criminally stupid, or wilful or malicious, or not love their child enough.'
LOL how very true

and thus were many MN threads born...