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Tim Dowling webchat: Thursday 5 June, 1-2pm

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RachelMumsnet · 29/05/2014 12:17

Guardian columnist and author Tim Dowling is joining us for a webchat next Thursday (5 June) between 1 and 2pm. It's his second visit to MNHQ; he last joined us back in 2008 for a Mumsnet bookclub webchat about his novel The Giles Wareing Haters' Club. This time he's going to be chatting about his latest book, How to be a Husband.

How To Be A Husband is a very funny - and genuinely touching - anatomy of Tim's 20 year relationship with his wife. Regular readers of Tim's column, in which she figures as an exasperated witness to his attempts to master family life, will be pleased to hear that she has agreed to answer a couple of questions too. So if you have something to ask her, do post it here - Tim will be reading out her answers (which he won't previously have seen) in a video we'll post after the webchat.

Come and chat to Tim next Thursday (5 June) at 1pm or post a question for him in advance on this thread.

Tim Dowling webchat: Thursday 5 June, 1-2pm

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TimDowling · 05/06/2014 14:14

I think I've gone over my allotted span. Thanks to everyone who posted questions, and sorry if I missed out any. I'm finished - someone untie me!

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PippiBurnsTheBra · 05/06/2014 14:22

Am I late as usual??
Hi Tim, it is my birthday too today. I am 40. Hope my husband does not get me another bracelt despite coming in different colours too. I want a snake but he said it is not fair to the mice. I suspect he is scared.
Love your columns, the snake one too despite being a vet nurse, or maybe because of it. For the first time in my life I read the comments to that article and was disgusted with the human race and their lack of perspective and humor. Guess I'll be hearing the RSPCA knock soon too...

Keep it up. i wish you all were our neighbours.

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PippiBurnsTheBra · 05/06/2014 14:23

I'll get your book as a selfie pressie.

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MadonnaKebab · 05/06/2014 14:41

Tim Dowling, for example, seems a very nice guy.

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KateMumsnet · 05/06/2014 17:48

Hello all

Here's the video of Tim reading out his wife's answers to some of the questions you asked her further up the thread.

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KateMumsnet · 05/06/2014 18:21

And here is Tim reading an extract from 'How To Be A Husband' - on the horror of family mealtimes.

We worked him pre-tty hard today ...

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DustBunnyFarmer · 05/06/2014 18:56

For Tim:

For instance: all your TO LET signs - why does no one ever deface them so they say TOILET?

I spent some of my childhood in Portsmouth and the sailors used to deface 'To Let' signs in this manner ALL THE TIME. They also used to put bubbles in the fountain near the Tricorn centre when they were out drinking and you'd get small clouds of bubbles blowing down the main shopping street on windy days.