Times article ' Life is a see saw for working mums ' a book written by succesful working mother - comments please

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Times article

Anyone read it ? Has this been written by a well known mumsnetter ?

I do like the bit that you and your partner must get away at least twicw a year without children for at least three nights !

Her DH is the one that has given up work !

Aw shucks

More tips from La Boffinista:

1. Buy a spare house up the road from your own, and keep that nice and tidy for when magazines want to come around to photograph you and your lovely family chez vous.

1. Kill two birds with one stone by doing your public spirited charity work on behalf of your children's independent school.

1. Charity shops in Knightsbridge have the best pickings and are good places to be seen shopping.

1. You can save on Christmas presents by making sure your children are invited to Mohammed Al-Fayed's Harrods Christmas party for the offspring of journalists and PR people, where they will be given lots of free stuff anyway.

1. Local delicatessens will be more than happy to deliver a nutritious packed lunch of mediterranean treats to your offspring at school if you offer to set up a direct debit.

more NLondon Chatterati tips

do whine incessantly about your charmed lief writing a ook to sell to the plebs who have no such charmed life

do bemoan your lack of spa daysand feel so giulty you beat the nanny

do surround yourself with other N London sycophants

do call your child wolfie with no hint of irony

LOL ScottishMummy!

SM

You're spot on Boffin Mum.What al oad of patronising shit.And that se-saw picture with bleeding Alfie makes me want to put her into a half nelson and wave an empty wicked bottle about her head.

Silly cow.

WKD rather.
Am so old school cannot think in txt spk.

Let's hope nobody buys her sodding book, anyway.

Have you seen that Clive James poem "The book of my enemy has been remaindered/ And I am glad".

her miu miu mwah mwah chums can snap it up at poundstretchers upper-yer-arse-street

According to that secnd article she often works 12 or 15 hour days, so I don't really "get" that she is juggling anything. She's just an old fashioned career driven father really. I can't see how people with loads of dosh and support can justify that they are trying terribly hard, when quite clearly they aren't. But then she is in PR which is all about marketing "me", so I guess she just believes her own guff. She doesn't seem to be very significant though outside of her own head - I tried to find out the name of her other child to see if it was as silly as Roman and Wolfgang (although she does seem to claim five) and found she had been deleted from Wikipaedia, her first business went into recievership and her second venture was roundly trashed...

If you are telling me that this woman has a sahp then it really is profoundly irritating. Because it's just nothing really - they've switched roles.

Also the book on the subject of having it all has been written several times already. Most famously by Nicola Horlick.

super womwn horlick who lost £21million of Bramdean potrfolio.aye great role model she is

look with clever hype she with nannies,cooks and ,little men somehow became an icon of coping and working amongst the chatterati. somehow it permeated into RL

what tit wank, a city horah is hardly representative of anyone (except other city horah)

Quattro, I get the impression that hubby "works" from home, and that they have an entourage too (I found a wanky article about their au pair from a year or two ago).

"Luckily, our new male Brazilian au pair has decided not to take his family's advice to return home after the Stockwell shooting"

The first line of this new statesman article When I say article I mean vain ramblings.

She was also involved in the David Blunkett Kimberly Quinn affair as well as working with Brown's wife. What a small murky world.

Anyone start a New Thread 'Tips and Ideas from real working families on Middle Income' Or would this just be all of Mumsnet Goodhousekeeping Threads! This woman has no idea. The scary part is that she might be (or has been) consulted by the Government. Very scary thought that the Government actually employ this type of person on problems facing the population. 'Emperor's new clothes' she does no research but has lots of uneducated opinions.

I thought we were being a bit hard on JH on this thread, til I read that New Statesman diary link below.

It is just like a ghastly Christmas roundrobin where the writer crams as much boasting in as space will allow.
Why the hell do people keep buying publications that contain such claptrap, thus feeding these people?

I gave up buying newspapers years ago, and the only magazines I read these days are technical ones. The journalists who write The Register (Motto: Biting the Hand that Feeds IT) have a couple of vital qualifications that Julia Hobsbawm appears not to; something to write about, and the knowledge with which to write authoritatively about it.

Sorry What is 'THE REGISTER' Unfortunately the Court News in the Times is my technical news! & I hate reading about work at home. I really want a new job.

www.theregister.co.uk
I dont care what the technical subject is as long as there is one! Not just self-indulgent wafflings about how you are friends with famous people!

I am about the same age as JH, university educated, f/t working mother, interested in politics....if Im not her target audience, who is?

I have actually given up with women's mags altogether, and turned to the New Scientist and Men's Health (love that mag!) for my magazine titillation, which is a bit of a damning indictment considering I used to work in women's mags and celeb news. I have even had a couple of conversations with women's mags features editors of late, where it became clear that even they are fed up reading the twaddle they are expected by their publishers and editors to commission.

I just don't care any more about celebs, designer babies, diets, shoes, handbags, house porn, orgasms and so on. I am not sure I ever really did, actually (with the possible exception of house porn). Been there, done that.

Anyone else feel like that?

yes. I occasionally buy Good Housekeeping, thats all.

What do you like about Good Housekeeping?

Tell us about Men's Health Boffin.
I'm with you on women's magazines.Used to be a compete junkie,now cut back to two. Red and She which for a brief moment after a relaunch about 3 years ago was great. Now they are both dull.

What gets me is the plethora of 'Chat' It-happened-to-me type first person accounts.All written in exactly the same style be they about new hearts/philandering husbands/finding oneself by setting up schools for circumcised girls in Mali/building yachts out of cork.

I'm cancelling the subscriptions.Soooo boring.