The Mumsnet MUM of the year award.

[QuintessentialShadow]

Will there be a thread to discuss nominations, or will it all be secret through email?

It must be a hard task doing the judging.
It must be bloody harder than the Christmas appeal, so I dont envy you this task. A whole holiday stands to gain for one lucky winner, wow....

But, what criteria do you use to judge? If I were to put myself somebody forward, so to speak....

What I really would like to ask is:

???? why? What the fuck are you thinking?

maybe i could ask dh, to hold the broom up a little so you can all see my killer legs!!

In all honesty though, how many do you think will nomanite themselves?

hmmm........maybe all the trolls insane ones will[wi

see misdee thats why i should win! lol you should just come and watch me win and then I can tell you all about it on my return, with photo slide show too

even

damn the DD2 and her pressing buttons.

see, I am not perfect, she is still up

How can we nominate anyone above another? What someone admirably copes woth would dement another and vice versa.

Is it a we all all nominage someone and they are genuinely pulled from a hat?
Otherwise who can decide who is truly more deserving that whomever else?

Sorry that this has been said before

I still think it is a horrid idea

Can it be like Oscar night though? With some one of the vipers from style assasinating the nominees personal stlying for the event?

I dont think just one winne, think it need to be a few imo, also why is he prize for only 4? this mean large families cannot go, and they do amazing jobs

Maybe you could pick up tips on nominating- and writing that all important sales pitch here

As that's where HQ seem to have found their inspiration...

just pick a name at random and give the prize to someone

nominating sounds like pity porn

oh bugger, i doubt i will win then not smiley enough (maybe should use different broom)

sad stories fo my life, arent enough, I work with families, but am paid to do it, rather than volunteer.

Oh well maybe next year, things will be worse for me just so i can win this

why does it have to be about sob stories / tragedies? can't it just be about someone fab / who has done fab things?

... nah. agree with names in hat as least grim scenario...

QS, you are eminently sensible, as ever.
Justine did you get my nomination for Kerry Katona?

lol at "eminently sensible" - that is not something you hear too often....

Well I am getting ready to loathe any winner

My Ds1 has nominated me for BadMum of the year. Something to do with my being a beaatch apparently.

What a stupid idea. Justine et all, what were you thinking?

I don't think it is a problem that the prize is aimed at 'mums' (although should perhaps have been done near to Mother's Day). Lots of the prizes offered are for those who are pregnant/have toddlers/babies which I don't.

I don't think it is fair to blame MN for the prize. It is just the hotel trying to promote itself (as with most of the prizes on MN) as a family friendly place. I bet loads of people have looked at the website, so it has worked.

Quite frankly, I should win as my children still have chocolate left over from easter which must make me a brilliant mum (as I have not eaten it....yet). (Also, I'd like to see how they cope with ds playing twinkle twinkle little star ad nauseum on their grand piano and dd picking all their flowers to give to me)

" but also captures some of the spirit and wit of MN"

Justine you are clutching at straws.
That MN disappeared quite some time ago.
You have made this sound so trite.
You'll end up giving the prize to someone who cracks a joke now and again and gives good copy (for that is the crux of it, shurely?) and the real people who really truly deserve a bit of recognition will be left behind.
That is the spirit of MN these days.

I wonder what the men think about this?

Can a man be Mumsnet MUM of the year?

does the hotel allow bumsex??

otherwise im out

AS I mentioned earlier, what about posters who are not/ no longer mums, yet are very much and equal and valuable part of Mumsnet?

Pls MNHQ, can you not (in the spirit of wit, absurdity and can remember the other one Justine said) at least change it to Mumsnet BUM of the year? Now, THAT, could be a laugh and would not offend individuals or their sensibilities or pitch poster's parenting styles and experiences against each other?

I am sure posters have some funny 'bum' stories to tell! (then grimaces as I realise this may present YET ANOTHER opportunity for talk about bumsex).

Come to think of it, we've already had a few on here, and Lisa123 for one could submit a picture entitled "Me and My Broom".... if she felt so inclined!

Oh, turn the other cheek, Lonestranger

Cross-post with Mamazon . DHWT, well done. Y'see MNHQ, THIS is the wit and spirit you are trying to capture, surely?