MNers who have made policywonk cry today:

[policywonk]

JeremyVile, Threadwworm, IorekByrnison, KayHarker, Swedes, Habbibu, Desiderata, MonkeyTrousers and OBM.

What a load of bitches bloody lovely women you are.

aaargh Habb, you do know I was joking don't you??

Boyz, that's really lovely. (You're not NappiesGalore are you?) When my boys were little I used to stay with Mam and Dad a lot, and whenever the baby woke up early Mam would rush in in her dressing gown (bearing in mind she already had metastasized cancer at this point) and carry them off, cooing, so that I could go back to sleep.

Aitch, I suspect my boys are going to be sick to death of me going on about my mother...

PW - I could never get enough of mum's stories about nana and grandad - still ask her about them now.

i am indeed, pw. did you guess or did i say?

thats so lovely of her. i am now picturing her a little like my nana, and the room you mention looks just like my nanas spare room (in my head)

I guessed Boyz, I am getting used to your name-changing ways.

Habb, I suspect that that is because you are utterly lovely and unusually empathetic.

aww habbibu - what a lovely turn of phrase ("own personal santa")

It's lovely to have stories about grandparents. Something I've missed out on. (Murky histories and and split families not conducive to interesting tales of life experiences). My children know their grandparents thankfully.

Aitch, I tried, but failed....

v.sweet of you, pw. Suspect we need Desi to tell me I'm a big wuss! Anyway, night all - so glad trees made you smile/weep/kidnap delivery men, pw.

at being so easily identified and predictable !

yes habb, ive never seen you be a cow
even pw gets ratty now and then

Habb, you're a big fucking wuss.

Sorry to hear about your mum PW.

If you need me to duff up any of the posters originally mentioned say the word!!!!!! [fierce look emoticon]

Marslady, do you have the wrong end of the stick, about posters originally mentioned?

Not even slightly

oh brilliant!

Ah!

Me? Ratty? How bloody dare you.

Gosh we have to be careful with out emoticons on these threads don't we.

Hello Mars and thank you.

Apologies in advance for bumping this until the other mentionees have seen it.

Off to check out Habb's mysterious 'levels'

where is it, habs?

arf. i thought id gotten away with that one

Ahh, lovely PW.
No thieving thieves round here surely?

We chained a bay tree to our old house. I THINK we put chain round drainpipe & round tree trunk. Which, on reflection, is likely to result in the tree and/or drain pipe getting rather mangled in any botched burglery...

Oh gosh no fp, no thieves at all. (A few bloody big holes in the road though.)

Yes, the drainpipe thing sounds a bit precarious...

I'm with Habbibu - it's thrilling to be thought hard

Pol, I'm v happy that they're right.

For everyone else, PW just sent me an email snurking at the thought of me having to dictate all the names on the OP (JeremyVile, Monkeytrousers etc) over the phone to the tree company...

I have no idea what you can mean young lady. These are excellent names, of which their owners can be justly proud.

Bet you still felt like a right tit though.

I completely misunderstood Habb's 'hard image' comment. Coming as it did in the middle of a discussion about 'bushmeat', I thought she meant that she'd Googled it and briefly seen something pornographic.

Yes, I too wondered about the dictation of the giftcard. I was trying to imagine what sort of voice OBM would put on as she repeated Threadwworm (with two dubyas .

PW - Not just a delivery man but an M & S ......

it was that WilfSell talking about this damaging our hard image..

(Do you think he means it? And is it bad that I do, in my heart of hearts, believe that WilfSell is Will Self's double-bluff posting name and therefore refer to him as a him?)