Come and celebrate our new [thanks] emoticon by saying Thank You to a Mumsnetter who's made a difference. Spot prizes to be won and all!

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello.

We have a new emoticon:

It's meant as a way for say thank you to someone for something nice/funny/amazing they've done or said. And it's in no small way inspired by the lovely Mumsnet Blanket Crew who've been agitating- very politely but very persistently - for a thank you emoticon for some time now. (They originally wanted a star but we thought a bunch of flowers probably had a bit less of the 'prefecty'/'sticker chart' thing going on.)

We want to mark the arrival of our new emoticon by starting this special Thank You thread - and inviting you to say to another Mumsnetter who's made a difference to you.

Perhaps it's a Mumsnetter who has posted (or PM'd) something that helped you or supported you or inspired you ? or just made you laugh like a drain. Or maybe it's someone who's done something extraordinary for you, off-board or on.

Do come and tell us about it - and thank her/him for it - here. We're hoping for a thread full of for some truly lovely MNers.

Oh, and we've also got some rather covetable prizes - books, toys and some very cool (child and adult) bike helmets from Bell - to give away as spot prizes. Anyone who posts on this thread is in with a chance of winning - we'll pull names at random out of a hat in a couple of days' time.

, MNHQ

First up, tethersend, for always answering my S&B dilemmas.

CheerfulYank for your general cheerfulness and for being such a good ambassador for all us CrankyYanks

to SarahStratton just for being her.

I'd like to say to MN in general, for showing me life with dc can be fun.

I was in two minds whether to go ahead or not (difficult family background), and now I've got my amazing ds!

to tiktok for getting me through the early days bfing.
to everyone on the feminism section for opening my eyes.
to everyone on the feminism section for showing me such support recently.

I would like to give a sneaky but HUGE to Furball
She is a super spam hunter and helps us by reporting a ton of spam daily, so thank you from HQ.

Bloody hell, Furball reports more then me!

to AnyFucker because this place wouldn't be the same without you. The number of people you must've helped in Relationships is astonishing.

to SolidGoldBrass for unwavering determination in calling a spade a fucking shovel while also possessing an uncanny ability to get to the heart of the issue.

I suspect theres an awful lot of mners looking at this thread and feeling a little sad as I'm sure a lot of people give huge amounts of help who've not been mentioned here. So, if you are one of those people have a huge from me cos with out you all it would rather an empty and miserable place.

I'd like to give OhYouBadBadKitten some for her post above. A lot of mners have made such a difference to others, it's impossible to name everyone. You're all stars.

OYBBK- you are always one of the people who springs to mind for me when these threads start up, your endless enthusiasm and patience helping us all to get to where we needed to be in time for Christmas was brilliant! So you get some (snowy) from me, and look forward to your Going Home For Christmas Am I Going To Make It thread this year!

(I was Bucharest btw)

I am secretly hoping for lots of snow Foryourdreams as I really enjoyed doing it

So am I! Even though it has us all on tenterhooks for the travelling! It makes it so much more proper Christmassy somehow!

to Anyfucker and to everyone who posts in Relationships.

AF doesn't take any prisoners and is straight to the point, whether you want to hear it or not. I hope she's helped a lot of posters put a different view on things. I've never posted about my ex in Relationships, but through reading many threads she and others have helped me realise that I'm not the terrible person my ex made me out to be, and that I was being EAd.

to the Real Mrs Devere who is graceful, honest, supportive and always so bloody lovely and who makes me appreciate my family

StewieGriffinsMom for organising the feminist book clubs, they are great!

I would love to give to all the lovely ladies on the allergies boards.
During the past 18 months my DS, now 7yo, suffered mild reactions, then bad hayfever ending in a severe reaction last year and severe hayfever this year.
I have had tremendous support through the consultants appointments, DS being prescribed an epi-pen, endless tests and dealing with the school and care plans.

Especially would like to mention:
Babybarrister
Greenbananas
Welk
Chocamum
Tinytalker
Eregon
Mummytopebs
Garlicclover
Freefrommum

to the feminists.
though I think they'd prefer tbh or at the very least

to you ALL

I LOVE YOU

[kate winslet emoticon]

Big to SuePurblybilt whose turn-of-phrase never fails to amuse me.

Also a tasteful, hand-tied bunch of to FellatioNelson for shepherding the Christmas ponces.

My go to the wool brigade for helping me start knitting again by inspiring me with the blanket threads - especially purplepidjin ivysedai knottylocks and lydiathetattooedlady

Also to kungfupannda for making tears roll down my cheeks with her reversing thread when I really needed something to make me laugh.

oh my goodness, thank you mrsblarney very kind!
have some right back for letting us take your rabbits, and what's more giving us lovely eggs that DS1 tells EVERYONE about (i think he ate all of them!)

also to everyone on the SN board who helped give me the courage to go to the GP about ds1, and reassured me that I wasn't just being a neurotic mum.

and I know this is a cop-out but to just everyone who has supported me on threads over the last forever years. I am not even going to begin trying to name names cos I'll forget people and then feel bad and because there are too many people who've helped me through a lot of tough patches!

To Solidgoldbrass for always saying out loud what I'm thinking, but far more succintly. (Though I suspect she'd prefer a )

To dittany, SGM and all the other feminists. I lurk but rarely post as you lot are more erudite than me.

I would to like to thank mummylin for being a virtual gran to dd4, through my pg I posted on the scuttlebuggers thread and even when I was high on oxytocin