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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!)

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JustineMumsnet · 09/02/2010 14:11

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.

OP posts:
CillaSnowball · 09/02/2010 20:36
, , Bourbon ?
MaHumbug · 09/02/2010 20:36

Is it pathetic
to be part of an epic
thread ending with ?

midnightexpress · 09/02/2010 20:36

Are any of you
free to babysit for me
on March the second?

fanjolina · 09/02/2010 20:39

Shouldn't MN b-
day party come with offer
of childcare also?

CillaSnowball · 09/02/2010 20:40

Summing up Mumsnet
is appealing, but really
I just want a dress

wuglet · 09/02/2010 20:40

I can't quite believe
That no-one else has mentioned
The Lebanon thing

morningpaper · 09/02/2010 20:41
wuglet · 09/02/2010 20:43

My kids will be left
neglected more then normal
while I do haiku

NotAnOtter · 09/02/2010 20:44

once it scared three goats
a bright, fluffy nylon toy
ubiquitous troll

NotAnOtter · 09/02/2010 20:46

pretending to work
blue lines betray my habit
husband swears at screen

morningpaper · 09/02/2010 20:48

I have a ticket
bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha
bwa ha ha ha ha

Just need a sofa
will gate-crash pizza express
Now need Boden dress

that does not make me
look like I've taken a vow
of celibacy

MyNameisJane · 09/02/2010 20:49

@ wuglet

Since joining Mumsnet
I've test-driven a Joggler
and I'm on YouTube.

fanjolina · 09/02/2010 20:51

MN party? I
guess She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
won't need a new dress

NotAnOtter · 09/02/2010 20:55

blush at frequency
with which I utter 'mumsnet'
in polite circles

CillaSnowball · 09/02/2010 20:56

fanjolina

midnightexpress · 09/02/2010 20:56

MP:

If you get yourself
A Boden frock, you'll look pure
As the driven slush.

midnightexpress · 09/02/2010 20:57
morningpaper · 09/02/2010 20:58

bitch

morningpaper · 09/02/2010 20:58

[snort]

midnightexpress · 09/02/2010 20:59
Grin
mrsruffallo · 09/02/2010 21:01

I give parenting advice
Whilst the children
fight around me

midnightexpress · 09/02/2010 21:01

Bloody haiku, you
Have dashed my plans for tonight
Again. Oh bugger.

CillaSnowball · 09/02/2010 21:03

Anyway: ten or
more Boden cherry blossom
dresses? Oh god no.

midnightexpress · 09/02/2010 21:08

Perhaps partners could
wear the frocks and we could wear
the trousers, Cilla?

frakkinaround · 09/02/2010 21:26

I don't live in the UK so I can't enter officially but...

Reptilian love,
Bumsex, biscuits, classic tales
Oh how we love thee!

It?s Friday night and
Am I Being Unreasonable,
To want bumsex so?

(if being is one syllable)

I have no children
Mumsnet has me in its thrall
Why can I not leave?

Or a sweet one:

Conception to birth
Babies, toddlers, teens and more
Someone?s gone before

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