'Superwoman' articles in the Papers

[Kia]

I've just finished reading the Sunday Times and there's a whole page article about the pros and cons of having it all - or not - and I got really arsy when the article talks about a woman in the big bad city who is pulling in £1 million a year and has time to 'have it all'! Well - by Nigella Lawson's third best thong - on that kind of money you should be taken outside and shot if you can't!!

Another one is supposed to have come back from maternity leave and fired 6 of her colleagues. In a man this would be called 'decisive' in a woman it implies she's gone slightly mad but we wont say anything since she's just had a baby.

or a new bathroom sink..!

That should read 'impossible to carry someone who is terribly injured down with you'.

sorry, enid, but last time I checked, playing golf all weekend wasn't a particularly life endangering sport...

There's also a theory that some people have a 'risk' gene (I certainly don't). They are more predisposed to take part in 'extreme sports'. Must admit, I was terrified when I had to fly without my daughter - knew that I wouldn't have been able to say whether I'd enjoyed the break until I was home.

I've got low brain chemicals and I certainly have no urge to climb a mountain!

:-)

I get scared at the fun fair! Jack is more brave than me!

Mines - I too had the same thought - which, come to think of it, is pretty hypocritical as I love horse riding and would give my right arm to have the money to go as often as I would like - yet I believe it is classed as the most dangerous sport you can take part in (I suppose on the basis that it has a higher percentage of accidents than others). Then again, I am far more aware of the possible danger than I was as a child - and this is definitely as a result of becoming a mother. So maybe I have the risk gene crossed with the sensible gene?

Enid, yes I know they couldn't carry them down necessarily, but to just carry on?!! If I was playing say, rounders, and someone dropped dead with a heart attack I wouldn't just wave them off in the ambulance and carry on, I'd go home feeling rather depressed or at least go for help (even if I suspected it was utterly pointless). In the memoirs I read, the poor woman wasn't even dead but they just left her all blue and hallucinating. I agree we have to do things for ourselves, but once you've decided to have kids things that are pointless but very, very dangerous should to be off limites IMO.

I think everyone has different priorities...I would say this as I enjoy scuba diving, horseriding and would love to climb a mountain!

But I don't smoke!

enid, I think there is a difference between "climbing a mountain" and "climbing Mt.Everest", but having said that, to a certain extent you do have to make your own risk choices. I am continually amazed at how many mothers (like both my husband's ex's) have smoked and drank all through their pregnancies and continued to smoke around their small asthmatic children. I would agree with you that that is far more dangerous than scuba diving, especially if the scuba diving is done in a responsible manner.

Batters, similar thoughts went through my mind when we were involved in a car accident last year. Minor to everyone and everything, but the front bumper. I was the driver, which made it worse. Even though it happened 9 months ago, I still feel nervous about driving over 60 mph on any motorway, and now normally cruise along in the slowest lane.

Having read the messages about the mountaineers leaving the woman to die, I hope and suppose all who took part in the climb knew this could happen to any one of them, and had faced the possibility of being abandoned. But to my mind this crosses the line between adventure and unacceptable risk, whether you have children or not.

Don't know if I'm a Superwoman, but, me and DH have been invited to Holyrood House in Edinburgh to the Royal Garden Party next tuesday! In the company of His Royal Highness Prince Charles.

Can anyone tell me how one gets invited to this, as we really don't know how we've got invited, DH is only 35 and I'm only 32 I thought it was only for older people!

Tigger, I havn't a clue about how you get invited to these things - perhaps HRH is a mumsnet lurker?

If they serve a proper tea, you'll be able to tell us all about it on the 'tea' thread here

SofiaAmes, Enid, If you are up for taking risks, we too might well be crazy enough to take the risk of going on holiday with complete strangers for the sake of sharing good quality childcare and a dive boat! There are several Red Sea hotels with children's clubs but they are very expensive, and there is still a problem because they shut over lunch and don't co-ordinate well with the dive boat schedules. I have been in touch over the last few years with Regal, Hayes & Jarvis, Kuoni, etc about this but we have never been able to afford to go there. Apparently there is fantastic shore diving at Bandos Island in the Maldives with a lovely free kids club and also free babysitting from qualified nannies, but it just happens to be over £2000 for a week!

Don't worry Willow2 - last time I looked the stats were that 1 in 6 people who climb Everest will die, whereas even for cross country (which I'm pretty sure is about the most risky horse sport) we're talking about 2 riders per season, tops, out of what - several thousand competitive riders?

I'm a bit of an armchair mountaineer myself, but my understanding is that those climbers who will climb past dying people without even stopping to comfort them are regarded as pretty extreme by fellow climbers. But, like so much in life these days, it's the people who live on the extremes who get remembered...

Anyway, I think I'll stick with my nice low risk riding and strolling up a few UK hills. I have no desire to be remembered in that way.

CityFreak, I was actually trying to figure out a way to get to sunshine as a family. I am perfectly happy doing the "babysitting" as long as it's in the sun while my dh dives. I was just hoping for some adult company while "babysitting." Maybe we should try to organize a trip somewhere...but not at £2000 a week... I'm pregnant and due at and of sept. so would be ready for sunshine and travelling in dec......

Tigger what are you going to wear? You must tell us all about it.

A wrapover crepe de chine skirt and a rather nice burnt orange colour jacket, hat of course, and the shoes have yet to be purchased!! and I'll let you know how it goes when I return on wednesday. Having a night away without the children, they are going to the farm next door and my friend who lives there will look after them and my calves that are on milk in a bucket!!

thanks for that, it sounds lovely, can't wait to hear what the garden party was like. Hope the weather is good for you.

SofiaAmes, We are actually in a foreign country now for 3 mths working, but may be interested in Red Sea sometime say Feb 2003. I certainly wld not impose on you to babysit for us, but perhaps we cld find somewhere (perhaps a villa attached to one of hotels or something like that?) where there are good adult facilities as well as a children's play centre. Perhaps we should just keep our eyes open and discuss again in the autumn?

I knew I'd find the thread where Tigger mentioned her trip to Edinburgh somewhere! So how was the garden party, and much more importantly, where did you go out on the town? Hope you had a good time, Tigger.

Had a great time at the Garden Party, we met up with friends of ours who farm not far away from us. Guess what, I SPOKE AND SHOOK PRINCE WILLIAMS HAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, he is a very charming young man, oh yes, I was so pleased when he stopped and asked me where I came from and what I did.

Anyway, have not been online for a while as DS was in hospital on monday and had grommets put in, a very long day, but hopefully this should help with his hearing, as after we had the pre-assessment and a hearing test at the Infirmary, his hearing test was dismal to say the least. So hopefully this should help before he goes to school in August. See there has been plenty happening here while I've been away.

Have to go, we're busy at silage at the moment and trying to get the rest of the ewes clipped, but the weather is not really on our side!

I thought I'd put this in this thread.
Anyone see the article, in Mail on Sunday "You " magazine, about " The post-baby powersurge", apparently these women felt"charged with energy like Superwoman"after giving birth, and returned to work, only to be promoted umpteen times, because of this new energy.
I think I missed mine !!!!Anyone out there experience this ?????