MN's 10th Birthday Party competition - write a Haiku about MN and win a golden ticket. To be judged by the Poet Laureate. (Not kidding!)

[JustineMumsnet]

So... it's our tenth birthday and we're having a party to celebrate on March 2nd. And seeing as we can't possibly fit you all in, we thought it would be nice to have a competition to have 10 Mumsnetters (plus partners) come along. As part of the prize we'll put you up in a London hotel, dress you in Boden (natch) and send you out to dinner at Pizza Express too. Full details here.

All you've got to do is to write a haiku (and we know how good you are at those) which sums up Mumsnet. And the 10 best will win. Simples.

And lest you think we might not pick the right winners, we've got Carol-Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, to judge them for us. So for all those of you who enjoy writing in verse, here's your chance to shine.

Good luck.

On Mumsnet you?ll find
Your oddest quirks and fancies
Virtually normal

Advice, laughs, support
On Mumsnet's blue screen at last
I find Sisterhood

An old friend
Mumsnet and me
many laughs we share

A lonely feeling
i switch on the pc
Friends i meet

god these are gloomy offerings

Laughter and tears
Bunfights and fears
At mumsnet you'll find

cod has many names
but always to be drawn out
on a thread for skirts

any better youregorgeous

in rl i am
proofreader extraordinaire
i am bloody good

boden do you say?
i must peruse the current
range of pretty things

Summer it began
I lost my life, found my heart
Strangers became friends

Spot the Mumsnetter
For bumsex, norks or fanjo
We prick up our ears

ooh this is quite nice
but i am too large of nork
so perhaps this best

But does CAD
know the significance of
hairy hands, truckers?

"HAIKU for PEOPLE":
excellent name, after all
we're not sausages

Last one from me, I really must do some work.

Chat, consolation
Confession, celebration -
Mumsnet always there

Supportive warmth glows
Like sunshine on blossom trees;
Mumsnet gives you strength.

or

Angry diatribes
Flash as Zeus's lightening does
On foolish mothers.

or

Cliches, pushchairs, cots
Travel, gossip and biscuits
Are all here: Mumsnet.

Shh. Go watch tv
(darling). I'm helping others
Parent more like me.

Mums Understand Mums
Some Never Ending Threads
Comfort Or Musing

Did you spot my clever use of the first letters my Haiku spells MUMSNET.COM

Haiku comes to full
Bloom after caesura's passed
by Pedants' Corner

Carol Ann Duffy
YANBU to pick me. I am
Sure you will agree

this is open to
UK residents only -
wasted efforts binned

Wasted efforts all
For sale. CAT me your best price
No aliens please.

I knew that, but grinned
to think Carol Ann Duffy
would read my efforts