So, MNHQ, bedecked in LKBennett (and Boden for the plebs) are all out stuffing pizza and Bolly, half of the posters and hangers-on are there too: what mischief shall we get up to while they're away?

[WilfSell]

Because I bet they've just left BigTech in charge. Or he/she'll be checking in every once in a while, a bit pished and lairy.

So we can DO. WHAT. WE. LIKE. while the Leaders party.

Oh, come on, where else can they do it?

and admit it, we'd be a teeeeeeny bit smug if we'd been, now, wouldn't we?

You were moving anyway! You're a v good mingler

I was going to post about enjoying being trapped with you, Lenin, but wasn't sure how that would be construed ...

Oh let's not get upset about it. They're not being smug: we asked em to dish the dirt and pics.

I am vicariously loving the party!

YES BUT WHO ARE THE PEOPLE IN THE PHOTO? Apart from stylish MNHQ non-pregnant lady?

Oh it's not THAT smug. No, nobody else cares Bibbity. Not a jot. Just me, loving everything.

Me and Wilf.

If ever me and Wilf got together we'd flick through Hello magazine and laugh and get drunk - and then we'd gossip all night long.

could i just say:

i was invited. then disinvited as it was a mistake!!!

the injustice! the trauma!

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there won't be a day that passes that I won't kick myself for not kissing Tim Dowling with tongues.

sophable, that is way harsh man!

I'd also like to know whether I'm a lurker, straggler or hanger-on please. I might need to change outfit accordingly. I think I'd most like to be a straggler please.

sophable!

Seriously Sophable? That is disgraceful.

and I was only disinvited cause i called attention to myself by wondering if it was exclusive or a free for all!!! otherwise i could have just rocked up! (i couldn't actually as I was at the BALLET, yes, royal opera house, watching fabulousness!@)

still fucking traumatic tbh

oh NO sophable!

honestly don't feel sorry for me....but it was quite a shocker! so near and yet so fucking far!!!

Just to clarify:

I wish more people were interested. Am not bothered by smuggery, not one little jot. I love a bit of smuggery myself!

Oh, Sophable...can you imagine if that happened in RL..there would be a huge thread about it.

The MN party is not RL....and I dont' care that I wasn't invited.

Really.

Not at all.

And Justine isn't invited to my party, so there.

That is disgraceful.

bibbitybobbityhat - I knew that was where you were coming from. I wish people were a bit more interested too. I think it's so great that one of the major internet/social media things is this (female majority) site. It's a lovely thing, surely? And I'm so pleased they're celebrating 10 years. And I like looking at the pix and trying to work out who's who.

ahundredtimes - straggler? Sounds good. What do you think a straggler outfit looks like, then?

it did happen in real life! it was a real life invite and then a real life disinvite!!!

i need to go and start a thread about the total impossibility of sorting a luke skywalker, wait for it, return of the jedi era (black nehru collar, knee high shiny mummy shiny boots, cloak) costume.

i'm at my wits end.

And what did they send you by way of an apology, sophable?

sophable - can't you insist that it be in the early phase and send him/her in a (borrowed) karate outfit?

lol @ soph's disinvite. I love stories like that.

just a sort of embarrassed, ever so sorry but we have to disinvite you email!

i didn't realise that you'd all be so indignant on my behalf it's really touching!

the only bit that bothers me a tiny bit, is that i'm on some kind of radar hence initial invite...but then someone must have run it past justine and she must have said 'god no not her' and i thought we got on well!

that's the only bit that bothers me a tiny bit, that rather than just swallowing the extra number (one more person) they really needed to disinvite me.

i am smiling as i type not crying, you must believe me!