Mumsnet in the news

[justiner]

Thought we'd point out the feature in Today's (Saturday) Times Magazine with a lovely pic of those who attended the pre-Christmas dinner in London. The motherhood survey is scheduled to be featured in tomorrow's Observer (news section) and space permitting we should also be in the Sunday Times (news review) with a light-hearted quiz to test how good a mother you are.
ps to all those who attended the first Vinopolis lunch forgive me for hamming it up a bit - artistic licence and all that. You'll have to buy the Times now to see what I'm talking about...

Can you publish some of the photos on mumsnet?

blimey, bayleaf!

why don't you describe what i'm wearing and where i'm standing and have done with it.

will be ducking well out of camera range if i attend another of these things!

nice piece, justine, i'll look out for something in the observer tomorrow. hopefully no photos.

thinking about this more, i'll be pretty hacked off if anyone here gives enough information to link "bossykate" to the photo. all i need is for my work colleagues to come on this site and start looking me up.

oh goodness, I'll have to go to the newsagent. I really want to read this. As for the photo, I hope and pray I am not too recogniseable.

Bossykate, IKWYM!

Well I look like I'm already drunk but not as drunk as I was much later! Enjoyed the article Justine, but yes to the artistic licence: from my point of view at Vinopolis you were more like the young attractive neice than the aunt!!

OH no - all my fault - sorry sorry sorry - how utterly stupid and thoughtless of me - quick someone TECH - can you delete my entry???? I'll e mail and try and get it deleted. I really just didn't think. SORRY.
Yours very repentently
Bayleaf

Should probaby delete my message too then

Oops!

Drat! I don't think I'll get to it in time to have a good look at you all before the deletions. Of course, I could always save ............

it's OK, bayleaf, soupdragon, I'm sure it was said in the excitement of the moment...but IMO a deletion would be a good thing, if you don't
mind.

I emailed tech and mumsnet straight after my last post - put lots of pleading in and a high priority email - can only hope now....
am feeling awful - was such a S T U P I D thing to do.

Hurrah! No one will ever know who you are now... Although I'm still curious

Please get rid of mine too - sorry guys, got caught up in the euphoria of escaping myself

thanks very much to those who asked for their messages to be deleted. i will be staying well out of camera range in future!

and thanks from me too!

For some reason in my depleted brain, I thought, they're in a national paper, of course people will recognise them - what's the problem?? It never occurred to me that you couldn't link the person in the photo to a nickname! Duh!!

PHEW!
Wil try and engage brain next time.

Justine - have just read the quiz in today's Sunday Times - had to laugh, very ''Mumsnet''!

Poo, missed all three papers (and the revelatory posts). Especially keen to find out exactly what Justine means about the Vinopolis lunch as I organised that one...glad the books are getting loads of coverage and off to trawl a few newspaper websites in hope of some e-cuttings!

Well, I had to laugh at the Observer article - ' a representative sample of 1053 mothers were surveyed'.....if you're going to do quick and dirty surveys, at least be honest about them!!
No plug for the book either which was a shame.
Gutted to miss the pic but murdoch papers are not my usual purchase!!

elliott, i agree, never could the words "survey, schmurvey" be better applied. watch out for the earnest articles... "Is Nigella really the best role model for mothers today?" etc etc