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 responsibilities as mothers and nurturing their own child with their own bodies and not stealing another mammals milk” in order to “return to work as quickly as possible, or to preserve breast shape for fashion reasons or to titillate men”. No one mention the Cheesestrings ad for gawd’s sake…
But not even Peter’s sobering email could deflect our excitement this week as we received not one but two gifts for the new Towers. First, came an enormous blown-up Rumplestiltskin from our new friends at Ladybird Prints (some disquiet in the office about the choice of the norty little fella ahead of Peter and Jane, but you can’t please everyone…) and then the ever-lovely Camilla from Dyson sent us a very nearly brand new compact hoover (are you allowed to call it that?) which is going to come in super-handy for all the Greggs sausage rolls’ crumbs Rachel’s leaving about the place.
Finally, we spilled a little Prosecco to celebrate our new environs the other night and were delighted that MorningPaper - author of the much-heralded and soon to be in all good book shops at the bargain price of £12.99, Toddlers: A Mumsnet Guide - was able to stop by. Sadly, she suffered ‘a turn’ long before the first cork was popped and, worse still, left her precious blue notebook with a sticker of David Tennant on the cover and all her plans for decking her beer garden within. Don’t worry MP, we haven’t opened it and will return it shortly (she really shouldn’t be allowed to travel).
Tags: Cheesestrings, David Tennant, Dyson compact, Greggs sausage rolls, Rumplestiltskin, Toddlers: A Mumsnet Guide
