Sarah Brown joining us for live webchat Tues 8 March, 1-2pm

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Sarah Brown is joining us for a live webchat on her second visit to Mumsnet HQ on Tuesday 8 March between 1pm and 2pm. Sarah's memoir of Downing Street, Behind the Black Door, is out on 3 March and promises to share the secrets of living behind the most famous front door in the world and what it's like to be an ordinary woman, wife and mother in extraordinary circumstances.

Sarah last visited MNHQ back in February 2010 when she was still living at Number 10. We celebrated a Big Night In in aid of the charity founded by Sarah, PiggyBankKids. We're delighted to be welcoming her back, paticularly as the webchat coincides with International Women's Day and Sarah is known for her advocacy of issues around maternal mortality and women's equality.

Join us next Tuesday lunchtime but, as usual, if you're unable to join us, do post a question on this thread that we'll put to Sarah on the day. Everyone who joins in the discussion will be entered into a draw to win one of five signed copies of Sarah's biography Behind the Black Door.

The five winners of signed copies of Sarah's book are...
sis
jugglingjo
mummylouise
pink4ever
RunningWithScissors

Congratulations!
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OOhh ! How exciting !

I wonder if the names really came out of a hat, or whether it was because I was quite nice to her ?!

Could be random as I guess the odds were quite good !

Thank you, Sarah

nursecuppy & mammysboy, I presume the answer to your questions by Sarah Brown were not the ones you were hoping for. I thought this would be the case unfortunately. It seems to me that the Labour Party and the current government are not interested in serious health issues such as the one that bother me & many others especailly families of vCJD victims "Contaminated Blood" , when we had a demo in London during Gordon Brown's leadership we were under heavy police prescence for some reason, helicopters circulating above us, police on horses and a couple of van loads of police watching us, why were they so worried about us, what were the Labour party afraid of, a can of worms perhaps. So as far as Sarah Brown is concerned total waste of time contacting her regarding serious health issues. Good luck with your MP's.

Mrs brown is here to sell a book. This country has not been in such financial dire straits that are going to effect the lives of us and our children. Britain may never recover. Gordon brown was the chancellor during all of this....I hope the book says "it was awful being stuck in doors whilst my husband ruined the economy,deregulated the Bank of England directly causing chaos, introduced pension reforms which will ensure you all have a miserable old age and poured money into the benefits system so inefficiently even more children live in relative poverty now than when he arrived...I don't suppose he meant to hurt anyone but he is a bit stubborn sometimes and we are now emigrating back to Scotland to live on a sink estate and eat humble pie "....... roll on devolution and give them their own time zone....Do not buy this book you all need to be saving for your retirement if it ever comes...and private health and private education....and maybe a one way ticket to China who Gordon was giving aid to....sorry but dignity is something labour must have banned.....

On the NHS under the patients charter you are entitled to a second opinion. you should find out who the "specialist" in cystic hygromas is in the uk Great Ormond St will be able to point you in the right direction. Get referred there or a specialist more local to you.....you have a right to be seen elsewhere and then you get all your facts in terms of delay of treatment and the effects it would have on your grandson etc. I would make life hell for the hospital,your gp and especially the health authority get your local paper on to it. Complain officially everyday via PALS, letters to the head of the pct/pbc etc. I am a GP and my experience is he that they shouts loudest and complains the most may well be unpopular BUT gets the best treatment. If you sit back and accept it they will not budge.

oldmotherb.

Not everybody would agree with you that GB was solely responsible for the financial crisis. The overselling of sub-prime loans in the US had a huge part to play in the downturn and that was something GB could neither control or foresee.

Oh yes, and I think most of us on here were already intelligent enough to work out that Sarah Brown is on here to sell a book without you having to point it out.
I think some of the profits are going to her charity.

NC/MammysBoy do vociferously protest to nhs trust
attend board mtgs

write to PALS, Chief Exec (recorded delivery and keep copies) they are compelled to respond and to note correspondence

cystic hygroma, ask your nhs trust for referral

Mr B.E.J. Hartley Bsc MBBS FRCS
Consultant Paediatric Otolaryngologist
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
London WC1N 3JH
Secretary: 0207 813 8406
fax 0207 848 8644

NC/MammyBoy

cystic hygroma literature and treatment options by Dr Hartley

best wishes

Good luck NC/MammysBoy

Behind the Black Door, all 450 pages of it, is perhaps the dimmest diary ever to have been professionally published, strong though the competition may be. You would not have thought that it would have been possible for anybody to have enjoyed her privileged perspective on events, as Gordon Brown's premiership ran its course and financial disaster overcame us all, and still have produced a book so inobservant, imperceptive and dull

LOLOLOL

Well, I'm hoping my signed copy may arrive in the post tomorrow. I am open minded about what to expect ... but will continue to have a good regard for Sarah regardless of the book's merits.