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.

I'm taking DD1, Buzzing - and she definitely would like to meet a handsome prince, bless her!

I should imagine that a bunch of MNers in the same place would scare off most men

I'm taking DH, I was surprised he wanted to come actually, but I think it is just for the pizza

Right, does anyone know who is going to be there that I should know of? I feel like I need to do some research so as not to sound like a completely uneducated mummy from the sticks!

I would have liked to too, I was actually slight disappointed when DH said he wanted to come

My dress has come! It's really rather nice - a little striking, perhaps - but hopefully not in a way that will make partygoers wince and shade their eyes. I'm pleased with it! Going to have to dash round small-local-town on Monday hoping to find a shrug that will go with, as the one I have clashes.

Anyone else got theirs? I thought the postcard inside with good wishes for a fab time at the party was a nice touch.

I'd like to know who's going to be there, too. I wonder if Johnny will want to 'admire' his line-up of Beauxden Belles!

I meant to post that in S&B - oh well!

oh god there wont be KIDS there will there..

oh grown up
phew.

Oh cripes. I've only just realised that it won't be just the ten of us plus a couple of site bods. I'm going to feel like such a hick from the sticks.

[sends dh out to buy The Week and Nature]

where are you coming from, choosy?

Oxford.

Have you ever read Nancy Mitford's bit from Love in a Cold Climate about visiting London while living in Oxford?

"My clothes, so nice, so suitable for The George, so admired by the other dons' wives ('My dear, where did you get that lovely tweed?') were, I realised, almost bizarre in their dowdiness. It was the floating panels of taffeta all over again."

I'm not implying anything against Boden here - I'm loving my freebie much. But cutting edge it is not.

Well I live in a small town out in the sticks in rural Bavaria!
I do visit Munich, but only to gawp in passing at they smart town folks in their posh clobber.

I must look out my makeup, last seen when I went to the Oktoberfest in 2008. That's probably the last time I wore anything other than jeans as well (a dirndl).

I love Oxford. Often go there - from country-bumpkin-land (Cotswolds.) Loved Love in a Cold Climate too with the marvellous Bolter.

"Having to" wear our Boden item has actually removed some anxiety for me. Otherwise I would have been worrying about misjudging the dress-code entirely, such as the time I turned up in a pink taffeta puffball gown to a school disco and was the laughing-stock of the Cool Gang.

Oh I love living here - too much. Have roots miles deep now despite only being here 7 years. But London seems a bit fast these days.

Choosy you have made me smile I too shall admit to having to dust off my makeup prior to applying it on Tuesday
I shall be semi-smart on Tuesday, or at least try to be! I've never been very good at dressing up. It's a huge effort to not put trainers on, so I am quite looking forward to seeing what other shoes I actually own because I have forgotten! I blame having a child. I used to be a make-up and clothing queen before DS was born!

As I haven't seen my top yet, and have no feeling for what Boden is like (though it looks very nice on the models), I am also bringing a top from a brilliant German label, Taifun, which I love. But I have got a cardigan to go with it, rather than a jacket, which is probably also what I would have if I were coming straight from work. German offices tend to be informal.
Taifun top:
www.house-of-gerryweber.de/index_TC_de.html

Apples, I too have been the laughing stock of the Cool Gang in my time. Happily now too old to care any more!

night by night
where?

where what??

Oh, the link. Sorry, I just realised it didnt go directly to the photo.

Click on Shirts then Tops, and it is the 4th one along, at the end of the first row.

MN HQ, I think it would be better to do a new thread/sticky with the winners and their haiku's ? Would save trawling thru.

no i eman where in bavaria!

oh sorry we are in LK Rosenheim.