We had to share a wry smile this week after an email arrived complaining about our sleep advice. “Is it sponsored by Gina Ford?” our correspondent wanted to know, before warning us of the dangers of bigging up Ms Ford’s sleep methods “implicitly…through advertising her book and singing her praises”.
And then, before we could rub [...]

An arctic wind has blown through Mumsnet Towers in the past couple of weeks. We had our very own Cod war, just as the UK was squaring up to Iceland over the collapse of Landsbanki and Kaupthingy.
It being new moon time, fearsome trolls lurched predictably through the Talk undergrowth, and other perils beset Mumsnetters in [...]

Taking our lead from a certain bespectacled boy (no, not Harry Potter) we were Strong and Tough this week when we at HQ turned down a handsome sum proffered by Nestle to promote Milky Bars to you all. (Just think how many cupcakes 60k would have bought [sigh]). Still cupcakes or no, we just couldn’t [...]

As you may know, we at Mumsnet Towers have got a bit of form in the litigious world of internet publishing, but August, with many of our usual residents in far-flung places, turned into our very own silly season.
First, the spirit of Christmas past visited MNHQ. No, not the mumsnetters demanding a Christmas topic (in [...]

Move over all you Steiner and anti-Steiner peeps, your role as Mr Angry in the Mumsnet mailbox was usurped this week by… let’s just call him Peter… who, after the Guardian reported Mumsnetters’ anger at the Heinz/Farleys formula price hike, thundered: “Are you funded by the dairy industry?” Peter implored Mumsnetters to “start accepting their [...]

Greetings folks,
What’s occurring? Well, admittedly, the phones have been somewhat silent – but that could be because we’re now actually in the new MHHQ and no one’s plugged them in. Yep, no longer just a figment of our imagination, Mumsnet Towers really does exist. The IKEA flat-packs have turned up. Now all we need to do [...]

Greetings people,
What news of late? Well, Monday saw us welcoming GeraldineMumsnet into the fold, albeit virtually (she’s not got a desk or owt; but then neither have we yet – we’re sitting at the kitchen table at the moment while the kids are eating off the floor. Apparently Ikea have been alerted to our plight [...]

It’s been quite quiet at t’towers recently, hence fact that we didn’t bother blogging last week. We’re aware that that’s not really the attitude to take, so we’ve started ignoring our bad behaviour and giving lots of praise when we do things right in the hope that things will improve in a week or two.
Mind [...]

Greetings people.
Well, the curse of the full moon struck MN Towers again this week. According to our research, La luna is currently “waning gibbous” (which does sound like the sort of thing you shield your child’s eyes from at London Zoo, but apparently it is a bona fide astronomical term.) Anyhow, we digress; what that [...]

(Fathers and) Mothers forgive us, it’s been months since our last confession…
… basically, something went wrong with the MNHQ blog – oh, the irony - we couldn’t get in to it, then it disappeared, then Tech went away and then, well, we forgot about it… as you do. But now we’ve found NikitaTech and BigTech [...]