#frothers Unite!! Time for change.

[northernmonkey]

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. :)

Hopefully I will get a chance to write a post tomorrow for the blog.

I think I'm going to focus on how the state of the economy and the cuts impact the poorer elderly members of our society (as opposed to the 'rich' baby boomers of the media)

Unless anyone else is planning on writing something similar, or has any objections?

I think we need to be careful to include every sector of our society - just to preempt any accusations of 'mummy' bias

What do you think frothers?

oooh, that is fab. Margaret Atwood is wonderful. I had no idea she was on Twitter.

Have tweeted the blog link again, since the property programme is on.

Ava
already frothed about it today toomanycuts.blogspot.com/2011/12/empty-homes-and-mcmansions.html

Good idea, Shirley.

We could do with posts from pensioners and students. There are a couple of teenage bloggers, they would be good.

Or Hully - what about your DS? Would he write something? I lurked on his thread, and thought he was GREAT.

I will need someone to proof read my blog post tomorrow morning-ish at a guess 10 or 11am

It's going to be VERY long.

kate...that drop down menu to choose how you want to post on the blog didn't appear yesterday though

I am going to name change

either AnyFrotherForAMincePie

or MargaretAtwoodNoticedUs

not decided yet...

just looked at that empty homes website and in my area there are more empty homes then people on the waiting list

Yes yes yes

Hully's ds should repay the favour that the Feminist section did him !!!!

Hully sort it, ole girl

I am getting a little bit over wrought

Think we may need to change the background picture of the blog, it looks lovely but when it loads it puts the full image (of the kayaks) up first which is a little disjointed. Could we put up the same background as the twitter page? Does anyone have that image?

THE Margaret Atwood?!

She who wrote A Handmaid's Tale only one of the finest pieces of literature in the world and one of the subjects of my dissertation.

Lubey - I might be able to do it! PM ME when you're ready ok?

who is this margared atwood? is it bad that i have never heard of her

Yes, black, I am afraid it is very bad

Go to the dunce's corner !

shirl your blog idea sounds good

go for it

Font
Yes, it was the only frothy one that we could find on the blogger website.

We thought that you might be able to do something with it.

Problem is that when you upload a pic to Blogger, it only gives option to tile it. Cannot see how to get whole pic as background.

We (Kate and I) wondered if you could do some bubbles like on the Frothers logo for both Twitter and Blog background.

If my FB status was Twitter it would be trending right now

< get me >

MMe your housing blog was brilliant, mate

do i get the cone shaped hat?

Ok Shirley will do!

I'm not quite faiting at Margaret Atwood retweeting us but I am open mouthed and a bit giddy. Cor, this is good.

What do you think of the idea of writing to JK Rowling?

She would be GREAT on single mother/poverty stuff.

Shame she is not really on Twitter.

Thanks, AF.

oooh, Phil from Location x3 on Ch4 now.

He is doing a programme tomorrow about empty houses.

Yes, the actual Margaret Atwood! I've followed her for a bit and she is very active on twitter. We are certainly getting noticed:o