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.

"Cod having an in-depth chin-wag with Gordon Brown (I believe she offered him some policy advice)"

Snort! Was it about overfishing in the North Atlantic?

I wish you could have seen how small Annabel Karmel is

Carrie was talking to her at one point and Carrie is TEENY but she looked like Gulliver

[still sulking]

Especially as a friend said to me today "Any time you want a babysitter, just ask! I'd be happy to do it!". I bet she's on this thread and knows who I am [hard stare]

He was lurking on the fringes.

I don't know what Cod said to Gordy, she was being Mysterious.

Why didn't you grab me and say OH MY GOD TIM DOWLING and I could have said "Hello Tim Dowling I love you! My dress was £8 from Asda."

I will deffo do that next time. Then we can time him to see how quickly he can get out of the door.

Yes Kathy Lette broke into a run when I attempted to say I LOVE YOUR SUIT AND HANDBAG MY DRESS WAS £8 FROM ASDA

Anguis told me that Johnny Boden tapped her on the shoulder and said "I love your dress"

the charmer

And Policy spent an hour talking to a man she thought was Johnny Boden but was actually a Mumsnetter's husband

eh?

Oh, bumper's husband. They were both v v nice.

There were hardly any men there who weren't intimidatingly famous, or part of someone's security detail.

Tom Dowling was there! wows

And Cod? Why? because she's infamous?

She doesn't add much the mn community these days.....

it was someone else's husband

maybe it was

or maybe it wasn't

it's harder to remember than I anticipated

Was Johnny Boden seriously there?

Yes- bumper and dh were v lovely weren't they?

Is camilladyson F?
Who is blousenthusiast?

Did Gordon have a sausage roll and glass of cava champagne, or did he just stand at his lectern for a bit?

Hello, glad to see you left the place standing while we were gone

Had a lovely time, but very surreal. Loved all the mumsnetters I met. DH has a new found respect for mumsnet, I think helped by all the free Moet he quaffed (he was drinking my share too). Shame we had to get off early (well, 11.30 anyway!) but I was knackered, and my feet we about to turn on my for the abused given to them by my incredibly high shoes. (Honestly, when I took them off I was no bigger than Morningpaper, who I could just put in my pocket ).

MNHQ were lovely, big thanks to CatherineMumsnet for being so attentive and easygoing.

I got to shake GB's hand but didn't get to talk as the fishy one was monopolising him

I'm just thankful I couldn't drink else I would have been mainlining champagne and making a massive tit of myself.

I too sat for a good half hour back at my hotel room trying to find my name in the Mumsnet book. No gossip from me though, I am generally unobservant to these things, mostly focusing on trying not to fall over my feet!

DH did pee next to Jonnie B, but said he tried to ask him where the lift was mid pee, which is apparently not The Done Thing (am endlessly fascinated by male toilet etiquette, imagine having to stand next to someone while holding your fanjo).

yes Gordon mingled, I only saw him briefly though because everyone is taller than me

he was mostly hogging cod

Johnny Boden was there but I didn't see him because of the tall people

I mainly hung at the back eating biscuits and occasionally blundering into groups of people saying HELLO ISN'T ANNABEL KARMEL THE SMALLEST THING IN THE WORLD?

OMG I wish I had stood next to Johnny B mid pee

LOL at Bumper's DH at the urinal with Johnny B

Apparently Attlee and Churchill were urinating side-by-side in the Commons toilets once and Churchill moved away, saying 'Every time you see something big, you want to nationalise it'

snort

That's more like it!!

WHERE is the fish with her GB gossip?? Probably over at no. 10 eating cakes with Sarah.

He was mostly doing what to cod????

oh he wants her to be his new legal tsar or something

meh

I feel like Cinderella back in the cellar