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

Oh, I'll have to think longer about the UK one.

But I'm feeling buculic and rural today, so meanwhile have some incidental music for the beer tent.

"The Last Trip Home" by The Battlefield Band

What do you call a dinosaur with only one eye?
A Do-you-think-it-saw-us!!

The old ones are the best.

Quick...pour me a glass of something, ANYTHING strong...I just caught a glimpse of something untoward in the produce tent.

Some kind of comedy root vegetable that Esther Rantzen used to feature on "That's Life".
Doc Cox; whatever happened to him?

Three things about the UK:

landscape
family
terrible public transport

this will put hairs on your chest make you forget Autumnal

UK thoughts:

Strawberries and Cream
Amazing dry humour
Home

I hear Doc Cox I know it's childish but can't help laughing at his name lurks on any medical MN threads these days.

Cheers, Sass

Is it meant to be that luminous blue, do you suppose?

ooooh yes to the public transport. Yesterday was hideous!

Poor Dawn

To get you started: we hereby demand that everyone who posts on this thread either...

c) give us the story of your day so far in five words.

Sorry, here's my entry fee:

Lie-in
Football
Sunshine
Picnic
Mumsnet

Kate,

Don't dare post my obvious comment to that...might get me chucked off the thread

OK, home thoughts from abroad:

• dearest Auntie Beeb, I never knew how good you were till I missed you
• good cheese
• greyness and rain

Home thoughts from home:

• self-deprecating humour
• tea as the cure for all ills
• scorching sunshine and glowing pink bodies

Ooohhh! Thanks Autumnal I've got myself a tie-dye purple & pink skirt and a floppy straw hat, I'm 17 again!! hahaha

I think that bit is the added hair miracle grower Autumnal. All I know is that on the odd occasion I trail in at 3am and feel the urge to keep drinking it gets dragged out of the cupboard....and then I don't really care about anything after the first glass

On a very hot day last summer I was on a hugely overcrowded commuter train that came to a complete stop outside Vauxhall and just sat there for 20 minutes. Drops of other people's sweat were landing on my arms, aaargh

Are all the MNHQers limbering up for your Clog Morris formation display?

We're agog with anticipation.

It was like that yesterday Rowan. Both in and out of London. At one point yesterday I was congratulating myself for finding a spot sat on the floor. Until a man parked his rather large bottom inches from my head.

Let's not think about these horrid things.

Have you started to recover yet Dawn ? You'd better have some more

@OhYouBadBadKitten

ooooh yes to the public transport. Yesterday was hideous!

Poor Dawn

Ah, cheers, BadBadKitten - it was actually quite a calm shift, all told. Have had worse ones!

Who wants to go first?

"Perfect Day" - Lou Reed

Ooh, don't want to clash with the karaoke! Off you go, fruitbats!

@AutumnalLeaves38

Are all the MNHQers limbering up for your Clog Morris formation display?

We're agog with anticipation.

Of course, Autumnal - we're just sewing the jingly bells on our costumes, will be ready to start any minute...

I've told this before, but:

Commuting on Metrolink bigly and obviously pregnant looking like Mr Greedy, there were no seats and every seated person was carefully avoiding eye contact. Aisles rammed with standing passengers so couldn't go hunting.

Fainted.

Still couldn't get a seat - despite best efforts of other standing passengers. Cried all the way to work.

...

I work from home nowadays. Only experience congestion if cats demand Dreamies on my way to the office.

Great choice, Tress.

(We'll ignore those Rugby Club blokes slurring the chorus from outside the Beer Tent)