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RebeccaMumsnet · 14/08/2013 14:59

Hi all,

We know that some of you have clocked it already but we thought we would have an official thread to announce with Sad hearts that we have to bid farewell to the wonder that is HelenMumsnet

For those of you who don't know where have you been? Helen has headed up the MN Community team for several years now and she is orf to pastures new.

Aside from supplying MNHQ with plenty of Cake and Gin, she has worked tirelessly on many many elements of Mumsnet over the years to help shape it into the site we see today Thanks .

She has trained many of us and been one of the kindest and most supportive colleagues it's possible to have!

So please join us in raising a glass Wine to the lovely HelenMumsnet - we will miss you and we wish you the very very best in your new job.

p.s Please don't troll us, you know too much Wink

Ode to HelenMumsnet by OliviaMumsnet

A blue Sad face is not enough to describe our feeling
The news that Helen's leaving HQ has left us all reeling.
We wish her all the very best in her new endeavour.
We're sure her new employers know that she's not just clever,
Her long list of skills is wonderfully impressive,
Though she plays it down, for she's discreet and not excessive.
When (wo)manning the ship she maintained perfect control,
Hunting out with precision every sock puppet, perv or troll.
She is generous to a fault, in knowledge, care and time,
Her replies on Site Stuff threads verged from brilliant to sublime.
A discerning modern woman, she don't believe the hype,
Though she's regularly at the sentences she has had to type.
The Mumsnetters will miss her as off she fucks to pastures new
And all of us at the Towers will miss her smile and bossy emails too.

OP posts:
MasterFlea · 15/08/2013 11:34

Cheerio Helen. I hope the new pastures will be green with gin bottles.

For some reason I always had a picture in my mind of Helen being Dame Helen Mirren and felt I should curtsy to the queen. (Being one and the same to me)

Thumbwitch · 15/08/2013 11:41

Ta-rah Helen - hope it goes well in the now posish and you don't wish you'd never left! Is there life beyond MN?

Seriously though - live long and prosper. ThanksGrinWine

Rooners · 15/08/2013 12:14

Olivia I really hope that was just an ode, and not Helen's actual reference. Grin

LOL at the fuck off link!

Helen, you're a Goddess and always have been, and I hope they blooming well appreciate you where you're going because if they don't, we will come and reclaim you, and bring you home to MN where you belong.

Good luck Mrs
xxxxxxxxxx

LynetteScavo · 15/08/2013 12:25

Good luck and cheers, Helen! Wine

feels relieved I don't have to contribute a £5 towards the leaving present

Lynette Flowers

CharlotteMumsnet · 15/08/2013 12:56

We'll miss you, Helen. Good luck xx

HelenMumsnet · 15/08/2013 13:07

@MrsBottesini

I do hope you are planning to leave us Cake as a leaving present?

I'm very much hoping so!

usualsuspect · 15/08/2013 13:12

I've never seen Charlottemumsnet before.

Tee2072 · 15/08/2013 13:21

They're all coming out of the woodwork, aren't they, usual!

usualsuspect · 15/08/2013 13:24

I'm waiting to see who else appears Grin

EmpressOfTheSevenOceans · 15/08/2013 13:26

Good luck Helen Thanks. I hope you've packed pombears and gin in your OFRS.

YoniMatopoeia · 15/08/2013 13:44

Helen. I am sad to see you go, and hope that whatever you are moving on to is good (would love to know what).

Good luck for the future.

Come back for some meet ups maybe?

Isabeller · 15/08/2013 15:40

Shock Thanks Thanks Thanks

and all the best with your new adventure xx

HelenMumsnet · 15/08/2013 16:06

Ooooooooh, look, Tech has made me a parting gift!

Cake Cake

RippingYarns · 15/08/2013 16:09

Cake Cake Cake

Grin Grin Grin

fricking awesome!!!

MmeLindor · 15/08/2013 16:10

Excellent Cake

Tapirbackrider · 15/08/2013 16:10

Much Cake Thanks and Wine

You'll be sorely missed!

GlaikitFizzog · 15/08/2013 16:12

Ooh can we keep it tech, can we can we?? Cake

MariaLuna · 15/08/2013 16:12

Bye HelenMumsnet, all the best and thanks for everything!

mistlethrush · 15/08/2013 16:22

Good luck with the new job Helen, and hope you make it back, even if in disguise!

Itsjustafleshwound · 15/08/2013 16:25

Thank you and good luck !

Itsjustafleshwound · 15/08/2013 16:28

What are the odds that there will be a thread in a month or so time asking if HelenMumsnet has flounced?

Fillybuster · 15/08/2013 16:35
Sad

I've had a long distance girl crush on HelenMumsnet for several years....

Good luck - I'm sure you will brilliant, wherever you are off to Grin Don't forget us...(as if....) Grin

usualsuspect · 15/08/2013 16:40

No thinking you can slink back in wearing side bollocks,Helen.

Cake ooh lovely

FruOla · 15/08/2013 16:42

Bye, bye Helen Best of luck in your new job. I'll miss you. I'm mega impressed that Tech has made you a Cake

UnitedZingDom · 15/08/2013 16:45

Helen you are a star! thank you!

I'm so happy I could cry!
thank you for listening to my pleas!

cake!

Cake
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