Roll up, roll up for the Great Mumsnet Get Together, Summer Fete, Garden Party, Disco and Barbecue

[RowanMumsnet]

Hello there!

We would like to cordially invite you all to join us this coming Sunday, June 18, for a Great Get Together - in memory of the late Jo Cox MP, and in support of her family's organisation, More In Common, which aims to get us all to celebrate the things that unite us.

So whether you're reasonable or unreasonable, whether you have or have not Googled penguin bollards, and whether or not you think the OP should have cashed the cheque, we'd love to see you all here on Sunday around midday.

There will be PRIZES, chatting and amusing gifs (courtesy of AliceDMumsnet's 'solid gold gifs' folder). Please bring your best children's jokes, pictures of any kittens who have recently adopted you, and heartwarming stories of love and friendship across the divide (Netmums).

BYO booze. Folk dancing will not be tolerated in the shallow end.

(If you'd rather go to an event near you and meet other people face-to-face, check out the Great Get Together's listings of thousands of events across the UK here.)

Love
MNHQ

Sassy, your for pimms is greater than mine. You can have my prize :) [magnanimous]

Hair braiding? I could do with that, I need a few banlges too, and some flowers in my hair.

Afternoon! Am I the only one drinking on this fabulous day? I have wine 🍷

My day in 5 words:
hungover
hungover
hungover
hungover
washing

I'll be back with a joke

Love ya BadKitten

WINNERS' CORNER

We have consulted a selection of joke experts and the winner of the 'crap children's jokes' competition is STDG for her entry:

What is the difference between a duck?
One of its legs is both the same.

Congratulations STDG for this very well-deserved recognition of crapness. We will DM you to get your details

@fruitbats

My day in 5 words: hungover hungover hungover hungover washing I'll be back with a joke

Hello fruitbats. Have a Coke and a banana and possibly some paracetamol. You've missed the joke comp but...

NEW COMPETITION
For a bottle of Pimms :

What three things do you think of when you think of the UK?

Knock knock
Who's there
Cows go
Cows go who
No silly, cows go moo

Boom boom

My day in 5 words - sick dog, 3am, knackered.

The longer version is that ddog2 woke us up in the night, because she has developed colitis - the poor thing was getting stomach cramps and was rather distressed. We spoke to the emergency vet, at the vet hospital, and dh took her in. They got back about 4.30am, so he and I are both knackered today. The dog seems fine - not a bother on her. And she is enjoying the vastly expensive food the vet prescribed. From tomorrow, she will be having one meal of vastly expensive prescribed food, and one of cooked chicken and rice, which dh and I will have to lovingly prepare. Not that our dogs are spoilt, though.

@JustCallMeKate

Afternoon! Am I the only one drinking on this fabulous day? I have wine 🍷

We could try to devise a drinking competition... just so long as nobody's holding MNHQ responsible for any consequences

Oh, I missed the joke comp

Three things

1. community
2. a sense of belonging (home)
3. bad weather (except today)

Rowan did you say your cat is 22? Is that a world record

Ada,

"...I need a few banlges too, and some flowers in my hair."

Sounds like you'd find the "Hippy Boudoir" vintage caravan right up your street. Is next to Hook-A-Duck.

Got these henna tattoos done there

Room for one more?

My day in five words...

Trolls
Troublemakers
Sockpuppets
Goadyfeckers
PBPs

but the good news is, I'm clocking off now!

Any Pimm's left, Rowan? Don't bother with the lemonade and ice and fruit and all that nonsense, just on its own is fine, ta.

What three things do you think of when you think of the UK?

Pimms
Union Jack
Royal Family

Congratulations SDTG on winning the joke comp

Ahhhh!

Conversations about the weather...

The goddamn best tea in the world...

The feeling that whatever is thrown at us as long as we can obsess over the weather and drink tea, everything will be ok! And it will, I Sassy-promise!!!

The UK
Yorkshire pudding
Crumpets
Stilton

My day -

Lie in, now walking cat.

(I'm using the word "walking" very loosely.)

I'll tap DS for a joke when I get back.

Which way is the cake stall? 🍰

Eventful day DawnMumsnet
I've missed it all

Sangria anyone?

Three things about the UK:
Diversity
Community
Sense-of-humourty

Day in five words...

jigsaw puzzle
gardening
sausage sarnies

Where's the BBQ tent? We need food to soak up the drink.

@DawnMumsnet

Room for one more?

My day in five words...

Trolls
Troublemakers
Sockpuppets
Goadyfeckers
PBPs

but the good news is, I'm clocking off now!

Any Pimm's left, Rowan? Don't bother with the lemonade and ice and fruit and all that nonsense, just on its own is fine, ta.

Treble measure of neat Pimms for DawnMumsnet

What three things do you think of when you think of the UK?

Green spaces
Orderly queues
Self-deprecation