Let's Dish The Dirt Shall We? #NewsMumOnline

It's time for #NewsMumOnline again, and for the second time in a row, it's a blogging focus rather than a mainstream news focus, but then you did enjoy the last one right?!?!?! :-)

So, this time, it's all about dishing the dirt, because there's a lot of honking going on. Honking bodies, honking from home, and honking house cleaning. There's so much honking going on, that Mummy Bloggers have been in the Daily Fail THREE TIMES recently.

In case you've missed all or any of them, it's my job to bring you up to speed ;-)

So first up, Pippa from Story of Mum is giving some leverage to #HonkFromHome so that it's not all about that Wembley Danceathon #TeamHonkDanceathon. Pippa started #MyKidsDressedMe 

So what actually happened?

1. First up, Pippa was inspired by Summer Bellessa with this post: I let my toddler dress me for a week here's what happened
2. So she did this Facebook post with photographic evidence of her doing same.
3. Due to the support it received from lovely comments from Story of Mum fans, it all kind of took off from there.
4. Pippa tweeted and it was kind of nailed when @EmmaFreud said "brilliant idea. We need to get the whole country doing this".
5. Then Pippa blogged about it here: Would you let your child choose what you wear for charity
6. Then it became a thing!
7. It went in the Cornish Man except it's a Cornish wo-Man in this instance ;-)
8. And then it went into the Daily Fail: Cornish Mother starts global fashion craze and the rest is history. 
9. Except the reason my blog post title of "dish the dirt" applies here, is because the Daily Fail COMMENTS are quite frankly heartless, so I have red arrowed down all the nasty ones, green arrowed up the few nice ones and commented myself. If you've read this far, can you do the same please and tip the balance in favour of nice humans? Thanks in advance!
10. If you LOVE Comic Relief and Team Honk but can't make Wembley then you really must #HonkFromHome and what better way to do it than with #MyKidsDressedMe ;-) You'll have fun and so will your children. Plus the most important thing is that you and your friends send THE text. Your pics hashtagged with #MyKidsDressedMe may even end up on the live BBC show!!!!

Hey, they EVEN have a POSTER (which Jo designed), which couldn't be clearer. Now you know what to do:

So next #NewsMumOnline blogger story. These ladies say that they don't honk, but you can make up your own mind. See who you recognise from this Daily Fail story: Can you guess which of these women only shower once a week? I personally spy at least two well known bloggers amongst them.

Favourite *honk* quotes from the article:

I pass one of my son’s wet flannels under each armpit before giving my arms, hands, face and intimate area a cursory once over. Then I’m ready for the school run.

Tempered by:

It may sound grim, but I can assure you I don’t smell, as my husband — who has a shower every other morning — will attest.

Next honker:

But after I’ve put them to bed, I rarely bath or shower myself, despite being covered in as much mashed banana and yogurt as they are.

Tempered by:

Deodorant and dry shampoo are my saviours and my straight, dark brown hair looks the same whether I wash it or not. No one has ever said I smell, but then I work from home, so there is no one to offend. My children certainly don’t complain.

The commenters were ruthless but amongst the kinder ones was this one:

brian r, great bookham, 2 days ago
a dermatologist will tell you NOT to shower or bath every day as it depletes the covering of natural oils that help defend the skin from the weather

So perhaps these ladies can also #HonkFromHome or perhaps they already are ;-) *jokes*.

Third up and finally, how clean is YOUR house. Mine is quite nice thank you very much, but then that wasn't always the case. At one point I stopped hoovering and stopped tidying because for a couple of years, as a toddler, Aaron was JUST LIKE THIS.

If only I had the good sense and foresight to video Aaron being like that, except I was too frazzled and frustrated by it. It meant I couldn't have people over and often meant I escaped the house to stop having to look at it. 5 million people have watched the above You Tube video, but FIFTY million have watched it on Facebook, according to the Dail Fail (yes this blog post is three times over Daily Fail focused, #SorryNotSorry). The Daily Mail article is here: Why Mums Really Never Get Anything Done. I hate though that they don't use the You Tube video! (1) it meant it took me AGES to find it and (2) it means people don't click through and increase her views, which seems mean of the Mail considering they are benefiting in page views from HER story so surely they should reciprocate. Or tell me, am I wrong? Can YOU navigate to her or her video from that article? I couldn't! Nor to her Facebook page.............

Anyway, this bringeths the end of this #NewsMumOnline article. If you have enjoyed it, you can thank me by sponsoring me. After all I too will HONK after dancing for 6 hours in the #TeamHonkDanceathon in Wembley on Sunday 8th March.

Sponsor me here

TEAM HONK #TEAMHONK on Red Nose Day WITH Russell Brand

The pics, hot off the press!

#TeamHonk got to talk to Russell Brand live on screen.

You know it:

Click 'em to big 'em

25 Years of Comic Relief - 25 things you can do with your Nose!

So I have erm been a little bit silly and recorded onto You Tube  25 things that you can do with your hooter, your NOSE, for Red Nose Day.  25 things, because Comic Relief, this year, celebrate 25 years. <<< (The link has been removed as I subsequently removed the video as it kind of didn't really go anywhere...)

It is very spontaneous, very last minute, very unrehearsed, and hopefully you will laugh at me, or with me or both.

Aaron put my red nose on his nose so many times he ended up ripping it in half, so I have the branded circular paper cellotaped to my nose DIY style.  Mums are adaptable right!

BUT I do have an official red nose day Comic Relief Claire's Accessories wig on.

Anyway, if you like my video or it makes you laugh, use that funny money and donate to my Comic Relief
RED NOSE DAY GIVING PAGE.

Would be great if 25 people could give me a £1 each to raise 25 pounds for 25 years of Comic Relief.

THAT is all I am asking for.

And if you add Gift Aid to it, we could raise even more.

And if anyone guesses all 25 noses, I will give you a prize, or even to the person who comes closest, but ONLY if I raise the £25.

I am hoping to add to the #goodwork that #TeamHonk has been doing representing the Parent Blogging community in style, even climbing Mount Snowdon.

I had meant to do a polished, edited video, with effects etc.... BUT the last two weeks I have had flu, and tonight was my first opportunity to do it.

I KNOW, VERY last minute.

But I didn't want to let the day or the night go unmarked by me or this blog.

Happy 25 years Comic Relief and I wish you 25 years more :-)

Liska xx

The Gallery Noses - Happy 25th Birthday Comic Relief

This weeks The Gallery photo prompt is NOSES.



I had all sorts of ideas where I would crop pics of me and Aaron so that you could only see our noses, but I wasn't making a good job of it so I decided to dig out a fundraising snap from Comic Relief 2007 instead.

The below cheque was the result of very last minute spontaneous fundraising I did at work, with colleagues for Red Nose Day 2007 and was the inspiration for us becoming an Official Supporting Partner for Sport Relief 2008, a project I thoroughly enjoyed.

We are all so very proud of the incredible parent bloggers that have just got back from seeing #GoodWork in Ghana.  Find them over at their team website Team Honk.

Happy Birthday to Comic Relief who is celebrating 25 years of GoodWork this very week.

Liska xx

Red Nose Day

With it being Red Nose Day today, the Blog Up North said we should post something funny...

So here I am...

In accordance with the red nose aspect of things, I give you my baby, Aaron with his red nose.  Apologies, it is not a Comic Relief one.  It is the smallest of his Ikea stackable beakers, but suits the purposes of this post:

The photo was taken on 24th December 2010.

Well as you may not find the photo funny, I better post something that is genuinely funny.

Coincidentally, my hubby told me about this You Tube video this morning which is hilarious:

Lisa xx