FREE TICKETS for a headline-grabbing work-life balance event

[HelenMumsnet]

Would you like a free ticket to attend the "Work-Life Balance: Luxury or Necessity?" event on the January 14th in London (10am to 12pm)?

On the panel will be Julia Hobsbawm, Nicola Brewer of the Equality & Human Rights Commission, Viv Groskop of the Evening Standard - and our very own Justine!

We have about 10 tickets to give away - if you'd like one, just email [email protected] (don't forget to say you're a Mumsnetter).

First come, first served...

can't am at work (too short notice!)

Ditto!

And Justine won't make it either - between chicken-pox, her child's class assembly, the boiler break down and the MN sex scandal hitting the Daily Mail front page that morning....

She will manage to teleconference in via her Blackberry of course.

I hope Justine will be taking along all the collective views of MN on Ms Hobsbawm's WL balance.

Arf.

SAHD Luxury or Necessity huh...

Would you pay me a day's pay to go?

Or maybe fake me a sick note?

Where is it?

God, it sounds awful, bloody awful.

Tell Frogspawn I send my regards.

I will be working, it would be like trying to fit life into my work balance

Hmmm ..... I think we all need prior advice on how to get that day off work in the first place ....

Aw guys, come on - I need some friendly faces there. I will be putting the MN take across naturally (though perhaps not quite so bluntly as MNetters would )

where is it?

in EC1 Malfoy.

You coming?

well if you throw in transport for me and ds3 from manchester, a childminder for ds2 I am there

ALthough am not a friendly face

Every time I see this thread, I read "Headlice grabbing..."!

January 14th 10am - Noon?

Those who work will be working.

Those who stay at home to mind children will be Mumsnetting minding children.

Those who neither work nor stay at home to mind children have no need of a Work Life Balance event.

precisely suedes probably would have got a better uptake if it was at the weekend. But then that's when us working mums are catching up on housework.

I agree it is short notice for anyone who has children,who works or minds children. Did they not consider how difficult this would be for people!!!!

I'm off on the 14th, and it would almost be worth sitting on a train from the wilds of Scotland so I could flick liquorice allsorts at the Frogspawn creature and practice my snurk face .... almost.

Headlice grabbing

seeker

To be a bit tolerant of the people trying to organise a work-life balance event, they would also have been criticised for organising one after work (evening pick-up time), evenings (how can parents, especially single parents and those with babies, come out then?) or weekends (don't they understand that weekends is when people see their families and shouldn't be attending conferences?).

And please don't talk about headlice. I dreamed of the little buggers last night. Picking them out incessantly and still finding more.

I should think headlice have an excellent work/life balance:

9am little nibble
10am hang around on hair
11am lay eggs
12am do a poo on head

repeat.

Did anyone go?
How was it?

Am dying to know what gems Frogspawn came out with.