Lurking Merkins - Volume Two of Under the Duvet of Darkness

[Boiledbeetle]

"Under the Duvet of Darkness Volume Two Lurking Merkins" is now live on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ

This a thread about a book about a thread about a book about a thread! (I think I’ve got the correct number of books and threads in there)

There are over 160 poems written by over 40 different Mumsnet usernames contained within its 208 pages.

There are also 12 Lurking Merkin poems lurking throughout the book!

It can take a few days for it to become fully searchable so the link below will take you straight to it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ

It's available worldwide so if anyone needs the link for a site other than the UK let me know and I can give you the link to the relevant Amazon site.

IMPORTANT BIT:

Whilst written entirely by Mumsnet users this book is not, I repeat NOT, published with Mumsnet’s express permission or co-operation.

It is published with the express permission and co-operation of the individual writers themselves.

Can anyone who tweets about it link directly to the book on Amazon or my Twitter profile:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ
or
https://twitter.com/TheBoiledbeetle

rather than to this MN thread.

Thank you everyone who let me use their poems, without you there would be no book!

Boiledbeetle XX

A beetle's gotta do what a beetle's gotta do.
Good Luck with your case!

so, you are probably wondering why this is back in your I'm on list...

It was year ago today that the first post and tweet went out about the book.

So far For Women Scotland have received £2000 from the sales of Under the Duvet of Darkness vol 1 and 2.

So thank you to all of you who bought them, and if you still haven't why the hell not???

https://x.com/TheBoiledbeetle/status/1775148339824128181?s=20

Since Under the Duvet of Darkness was published £2000 (100% of the profit) has been raised for @ForWomenScot
To everyone who has bought it so far:
Thank you
Boiledbeetle and the Mumsnet FWR poem writers xx

Vol 1: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C129WKDD
Vol 2: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ

That is amazing!! Well done everyone especially @Boiledbeetle xx

(chanting) Beetle, Beetle, Beetle, Beetle.....

Well done @Boiledbeetle and FWR.

Wouldn't have happened without everyone else's poems!

That's brilliant, Boiled. Thank you for all your efforts on both books.

Excellent news! Thank you for everything you've done 😊

Just had an email from FWS

Apparently it pays for a few hours of expertise from a KC or an awful lot of Tunnocks!

I know I'm voting for the Tunnocks!

QUITE GOOD BETTLE YED DAE BETTER IF YOUD HUD MA FACE ONNIT

Be still my bastart wizened and scabby black beating heart 🖤

All is right with the world. ⬆️

Or, you could have parked the campervan on Boiled's drive and paid £5 a day for parking.

Are you still bitter about that? You know you wouldn't sit still long enough for the photographer to get a decent shot!

Actually that would have netted £1,825 and I wouldn't have had to put two books together!

Bother!!

Sometimes I reeeeeaally wish I had any sort of photoshopping skills!

Well done Beetle and FWS. Glad to know it’s gone to a good cause.

😁 did your mother ever suss which one was you?

Neither book would exist if you hadn't suggested collating and selling them in the first place.

It's all your fault!

So do I. I'm crap at it!

She thought I was one of the less sweary ones beetle.

Bless her. She was mistaken.

My mum guessed which one was me pretty much immediately. I don't know what that says about me!

I will say my mam was very fond of my bonus one. But didn’t associate it with me.

Even though I put Lulu in there tae.

@ArcaneWireless I wonder if she did know it was you but didn't want to have to admit to having a very sweaty daughter!

@Waitwhat23 Any chance you'd already bent her ear about the specific things you wrote about?

She knows I’m sweary though. 😁. Just not in front of her so much.

I never move quick enough to get sweaty. 😉

Bollocks! Didn't spot that!