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Are your musings in the Mumsnet Toddlers book and would you like to appear on This Morning? If so sign up here

175 replies

CarrieMumsnet · 09/02/2009 14:50

Ok... the saga continues...The task of going through the old This Morning thread and trying to marry the volunteers on there to the names in the book has flummoxed everyone. So a new thread, a new tack. If you recognise your musings (accredited or not, ie they don't have to have your nickname by them but you know it's you) AND have a penchant to share a sofa with me and Justine, please put your virtual hands up now.

Thanks
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KerryMumbles · 09/02/2009 17:39

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Flamesparrow · 09/02/2009 17:42

Lol @ Sheik's costume

KM - we seem to be reading the same parenting guides, or have matching natural styles

Flightattendant12 · 09/02/2009 17:55

I would be quite excited to share a sofa with you lot

Am I in the book MP?

morningpaper · 09/02/2009 17:58
VeniVidiVickiQV · 09/02/2009 17:59

Did you include me in it MP? I'm sure I MUST have said something about DS eating off the floor, ntbf or toddler proofing the house never quite working enough

morningpaper · 09/02/2009 17:59

yes I am talking to you, vegetabley thing

Ledodgy · 09/02/2009 18:01

Am I in it?
I doubt I am,I don't think I give much useful advice.

artichokes · 09/02/2009 18:11

oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.
i am quoted!!
i cannot believe i have ever said anything wise about a toddler.
do you know what this means???
it means i am not a 100% clueless mum AND it means i can be a TV star.
i am soooo excited that even the simultaneous screaming of my two under threes is not getting me down.

Boco · 09/02/2009 18:12

I was in Waterstones in Norwich on Saturday and saw a woman leafing through it and thought 'I bet that's a mumsnetter looking to see if she's in it', so I stared until she put it back and then crept over and leafed through it casually, not at all looking to see if i was in it. (I bloody wasn't)

Nemoandthefishes · 09/02/2009 18:12

I wont be in it and am livign my own toddler hell without having to read about that of others

Threadworm · 09/02/2009 18:18

lol at all that leafing Boco. Don't you think that extreme leafing in a bookshop is morally the same as eating unpaid-for grapes in the supermarket?

AlistairSim · 09/02/2009 18:18

I'm not convinced that this isn't some convoluted marketing plan.

We have to buy the book to see if we're in it before we can appear on tv.

ahundredtimes · 09/02/2009 18:19

I think you should have people who aren't in the book. You can have me and Boco, and I will wear skyscraper shoes and Boco will do quick impromptu drawings of the studio guests and it'll all be great fun. Nobody will notice that we don't mention toddlers, or have anything to say on the subject. Then the viewers will think 'well, they were an entertaining crowd, what with the high heels and the Rolf Harris thing going on' and rush out to buy the book.

See? It's like selling a car with girls in bikinis. Well not exactly like that, but a bit. I think it might work. Boco could wear a beret and a fake moustache and I could laugh loudly at my own jokes and wear a kaftan.

hunkermunker · 09/02/2009 18:20

ROFL at "extreme leafing" - is that in bookshops up Everest?

Threadworm · 09/02/2009 18:21

It's where you scan every page looking for one word.

Boco · 09/02/2009 18:30

Hmm, it's a good plan 100, and could work, but I'd rather do the bikini thing than the Rolf Harris beard thing. I don't think I suit fake beards, but I can say 'can you see what it is yet!' and hum while I draw. I suppose I could do beard and bikini. And heels seeing as we'd be sitting down. You could smoke and wave your hands around and say stuff about talking to them so they'll listen and making lists.

Sorted. What time shall we be there?

AlistairSim · 09/02/2009 18:30

I'm liking your thinking, 100x.

But I'm not sure about the kaftan with heels?
How about with a bikini?
Then you could drape yourself suggestively on Boco and the book.

Bound to shift a few copies....I hear a lot of mature men watch Fern.

PurplePillow · 09/02/2009 18:31

Would love to help you but I am camera shy

But could disguise my Dd as me if you want

Too far away anyway

ahundredtimes · 09/02/2009 18:49

Oh okay. I know. I could start off in the kaftan, and then casually take it off mid conversation or something? Then I'll talk too fast and do wide startled eyes every so often and Boco can hum merrily and Justine and Carrie will be utterly thrilled that we volunteered. Is a winner. Send a car.

psychomum5 · 09/02/2009 18:54

flame, I will be treating myslf once I have some money, which will be in........ooh..................a week, so am guessing will be too late by then to know if we are in it.

am lovin that kerry is edited out cos she is billy-no-mates

Ohforfoxsake · 09/02/2009 18:56

As its half term it'll be Eamon and Ruth won't it?

That should help keep the numbers down

ace123 · 09/02/2009 18:57

Is the 'going on This Morning' going to run & run??

I know I'm a tad cynical but it's a bit... 'OK if you are XYZ volunteeer, now we shall move the goal posts... if you are XYZ & a bit ABC apply...then, OK...you need to be XYZ, ABC & ACDC....& if you could vent your spleen, much appreciated'

& on & on ...

Boco · 09/02/2009 19:25

That is so cynical. They just want a couple of people who have bikinis and false beards and kaftans and high heels who can draw and hum and talk too fast. That's all.

pagwatch · 09/02/2009 19:28

Blimey - am I on web cam Boco

ahundredtimes · 09/02/2009 19:29

Yes, very cynical. The only goal posts being moved are the 'being in the book' goal posts, and they've only been lugged about by me, tottering in my heels all over the muddy field. Boco has drawn a picture of this.