On line chat with Tana Ramsay on Monday 13th October between 1-2pm

[rachel(mumsnet)]

Tana Ramsay will be joining us on Mumsnet between 1 -2pm on Monday 13th October for a lunchtime chat about her latest book 'Home Made' and all things culinary. If you can't join us on Monday, please post your advance questions for Tana on this thread. Hope to see you Monday.

I just read the tony parsons one Morningpaper!! !

I dont have anything to ask Tana actually, Although I do think Gordon is quite yummy (runs away in shame )

There is never - or at least very rarely - any reason to be downright rude and offensive to anyone though Anna, is there? It's just basic manners, doesn't matter who they are or who you are.

[though this does remind me to start a thread about the sinister man I met at a party who was shockingly rude, and I was to him too]

For which I have apologised and attempted to explain myself.

Move it along, ladies.

Mooooving swiftly on...

How was your dentist appointment? Are you in a lot of pain?

It's fine now thanks, the anaesthetic has worn off and I can speak normally again!

I think that the mockery of Tana Ramsay on this thread is actually directed at MN towers, not Tana Ramsay.

After recent fiascos (S Goldsmith and T Parsons), MN towers ought to have learnt its lesson...

Tana R - lol

Hey Tana, what are your kids' birthday celebrations like? Do you do it yourselves?

Is the food all themed and arty or do they get party rings and sausages on sticks?

Sorry if I'm being thick but why was TP regarded as such a disaster?? I can only see some rather 'pointed' questioning my Scummymummy but even then her point seemed valid. What was the big issue?

Tana - how did you really feel when Gordon decided to put a load of livestock in your back garden? Did you have to look after them youself or did somebody else come around and see to them? Did they smell?

(genuine question - DH has Gordon Garden envy)

(forgot to remove my Fabio coat)

Yes, if those pigs really lived in the garden they'd have made a terrible, terrible mess.

Did they?

I have no interest in Tana Ramsay or her cookery or her books.

If I met her, I'd be polite.
Unless she was driving in my manor last night......

Anyhow - she is a wife of a sleb chef and mother of four. SHe has written a cookery book. How dare she It's not like she's Claire Verity ffs.

Good questions 100x.

I know it's against much of the ethos of the talk boards, but on this one I do think we should do what our mothers told us and if we can't say anything nice don't say anything at all.

She's a guest. We should be naice and polaite.

Oh Anna stop it, her people will read this and she won't come on and some top entertainment will be denied us, as it was with Schezza
BTW have you ever tried to cook with a Jamie book, I avoided them for years because I didn't like the idea of following a TV chef but when I did I found his recipes are genius.
Get him on . But not the lovely Jools

No - she is not a guest. She asked to come on and is paying MN towers to be here

here's a question - what would recommend for a packed lunch?

...what would she recommend for a packed lunch?

No questions. No interest.

Hmm. Not terribly interested in TR, or her books, but the whole "she's not a chef, why has she written a cookery book" contrasts a bit with "we're busy mothers, we don't have time to cook chef-type meals". So in a way, it makes sense for someone like TR to write a cookery book, as it should, in theory, contain things that people with limited time and experience can cook, but be a bit more interesting, as there's input from a chef. My sister loves her books, fwiw.
I think the whole "animals in back garden thing" was interesting, though the festival of namedropping when he was trying to rehouse the damn things was a bit less so...

Tana - what exactly does Gordon think you'll do to his oven? And do you exact revenge by having a bath/bed he's not allowed to use?

Hello again,
In response to a couple of points Anna888 has made. We aren't changing the rules, we are asking you (nicely I hope) to adhere to one the few ones we have - i.e. no personal attacks.

And we are asking you to be civil. But if you choose not to be, as some have, we aren't censoring you (so long as you aren't making a personal attack). You retain your full rights to incivility on MN - we are just saying we'd rather you weren't because Tana Ramsay does feel like our guest tbh. Yes her publisher is doing promotional stuff which they are paying for - they have an ad up on the site somewhere - but we don't just let everyone who asks on for a chat. So in that sense she's invited.

Obviously some (though not all) of you would rather we hadn't invited Tana Ramsay along and that's fair enough but as you say that's a gripe about Mumsnet Towers and not Tana Ramsay so maybe best conducted in one of the other threads discussing live webchats or start another in site stuff, rather than here.

What happens, Justine? Do you make the sleb trawl through pages of chat to find actual questions?

No we send over the edited highlights... we might not send over the one about Gordon's cracks...

I expect the sleb's agent will do that - it is an exercise in PR, after all.

I read that interview where he has a £66000 kitchen on the ground floor and she has an MFI special in the basement where she does chicken nuggets for the kids. Also read recently that she was allowed into his kitchen to do the photoshoot for her book.
Also that his dd (aged about 5) asked him what 'take it up the arse' meant. He wa sexplaining how it's not horrendous for children to hear swear words, as they will hear them soon enough anyway.

And I don't even read the Sun, let alone the Mail.

Poor Tana, you mean she's actually paid to come on Mumsnet???!!

Opinion on having slebs on live chats slightly changed now I know Mnet are using sleb by getting money from them, rather than the other way round