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#frothers Unite!! Time for change.

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northernmonkey · 02/12/2011 10:15

Hello to all you #frothers
Thought I'd take the liberty of starting us a nice new thread as the other is getting rather full. :)

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lubeybaublely · 06/12/2011 20:53

MmeLindor Shock wow re: the stats! We ARE amazing, even if it accidentaly

Congrats to us all Wine and cheers

TeWiharaMeriKirihimete · 06/12/2011 20:54

Ooh great lubey!

I feel like I should write a post, but I'm not sure about what, I don't really have a specialism.

FontSnob · 06/12/2011 20:55

Mme - YES PLEASE list of blogs to contact...I was starting to feel a little unstuck. Xmas Blush

KateFrothers · 06/12/2011 20:56

Accidentally amazing is the best kind. Fact.

Those emailing do you want to use the frothers' email address? MmeL and I have access but I can send login details to those that need. Easy to keep track then.

FontSnob · 06/12/2011 20:56
MmeLindor. · 06/12/2011 20:57

Will have a look through the twitter feed.

You should maybe add that we would like to link to their blog on our blogroll and highlight the work that they are doing.

TeWiharaMeriKirihimete · 06/12/2011 20:57

I really want to write about the UC changes, but everything that comes our about them from the gov is almost incomprehensibly written. (Presumably so the plebs can't understand and moan about it...)

MmeLindor. · 06/12/2011 20:58

oh, do I have access? Erm. Ok, will look. You probably sent that to me sometime.

NorfolkNCarolSingers · 06/12/2011 20:58

You can add Lemsip to Wine can't you? CAN'T YOU?!

TeWiharaMeriKirihimete · 06/12/2011 20:59

Oh yes, good point Mme - I chucked a couple of people on there a few days ago without thinking to ask them if they minded... (oops)

KateFrothers · 06/12/2011 20:59

You could write about being a frother Te? It would be good to show how ordinary people are identifying with the feeling of worry and also that ordinary people are doing extraordinary things.

FontSnob · 06/12/2011 21:00

Yes you can Norfolk...just sit down first.

MmeLindor. · 06/12/2011 21:07

If anyone wants to write something but is unsure of themselves, put it in a word document and send it to one of the others for proof reading.

The more voices we have the better, and the more authentic the blog is.

TeWiharaMeriKirihimete · 06/12/2011 21:07

Yes, I suppose so.

There are lots of things that do touch on my life. I'm currently a SAHP, but before I had DD I had started the process of doing a 2nd degree with my local council as they wanted to train me as a Sure Start manager - that's obviously not going to happen now! Cuts to Tax Credits have had a big impact on us. DD's future choices are limited by the new Student Loans rules, DH lost his job a while ago directly because of the cuts impact on the private sector in his field and we have had to move miles away, I used to work with children with fairly complex disabilities whose families I can see have immense problems with all the new disability classification issues...

None of it is going to utterly destroy my life, but the impact is there in front of me all the time.

I suppose that's why I froth!

KnottyLocks · 06/12/2011 21:09

Oooooooo, I tweeted Claire Phipps yesterday.

I really like the idea of having a blog post about being a Frother. Makes our blog look accessible and would hopefully encourage those who feel as helpless as we did that there is something they can do.

AvadventKalendar · 06/12/2011 21:12

I don;t know if anyone is watching/#frothing at this...

cache.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-british-property-scandal/articles/home/

but it is something I am sure you'll be interested in

TeWiharaMeriKirihimete · 06/12/2011 21:12

The only problem is that the account I'm using as part of #FrotherTechTeam is actually DHs... I CBA to remember what my gmail account was called!

ChantingAsISpeak · 06/12/2011 21:17

This really feels a bit like an accidental revolution! Exciting and a little bit scary.

Result today - Margaret Atwood retweeted one of our messages, #frothers tag and all (apart from being a total legend, she has more than 280000 followers).

AnyFuckerForAMincePie · 06/12/2011 21:18

help!!

Something has gone wrong with my frothers blog access.

I have happily contributed a blog post, and a comment on somebody else's whilst logged in as AFMumsnet.

Now it won't let me, even though I am logged in. I wrote a brilliant reply < ahem > to MMeL's housing entry and lost the bloody thing. I have done a shortened one but had to do it under "anonymous"

What's gone wrong ?

KateFrothers · 06/12/2011 21:19

It's the Twitter login too MmeL.

Te the Sure Start stuff is really, really important. In fact all of that stuff looks interesting and I'd love to read about.

AnyFuckerForAMincePie · 06/12/2011 21:19

OMFG I love Margaret Atwood

< faints, recovers, faints again >

She is one of my heroes. I am literally frothing at the gob now.

KateFrothers · 06/12/2011 21:23

You probably needed to click Google from the drop-down list AF. Even logged in you can choose how publicly you wish to comment.

You can always pick name/URL as an option. URL is not needed, just Jane for that option.

Maybe an FAQ section on the blog for these sorts of queries? If one person's thought it many more will have done too.

KateFrothers · 06/12/2011 21:26

Margaret Atwood!! Squeeeeeeeeee! She is a legend and my favourite author!

FontSnob · 06/12/2011 21:28

OOOOOOOOh...Margaret Atwood. A real life famous person :)

TeWiharaMeriKirihimete · 06/12/2011 21:33

Also Shock[love] Margaret Atwood! I bloody love her also!

I might possibly regularly raid the young adult section of the library so I can read her books even though I am technically a grown up. Blush