Round up your ghosties and ghoulies and long legged beasties, the BESH are going to scare out the BFPs!

I too have the egg white but Husband has declared himself Not Interested in sechsing. Meringues you say?

Not spaff you fool. EWCM. Much more acceptable.

A long departed BESH used to joke about that so I didn't think of it (disclaimer).

Spaff meringues. Eugh.

Good God, Norf she sounds ghastly. I trust you have struck her off your friends list? Funny isn't it how former long standing barrens can forget the moment they strike gold? Not saying they all do, I absolutely hasten to add

I am hopefully going to get a duty shag in later aka clambering on. Have the Egg White. Don't know why I'm bothering with it, there's surely far more sensible uses for the stuff, such as making meringues. Collecting it could be problematic though.

Actually, I'm dreaming of any kind of shag at all. I am barred from sechs till the evil drug wears off, and I know I complained about having to do it all the time, but without something to make us do it we just don't do it at all!

aries, I knew one other infertile person in real life, but after she eventually won a baybee (after about ten years trying), she went completely over to the dark side and is now completely dreadful for things like every single Facebook update being about "the wonder of being a mommy". Heave.

Jeepers you lot can talk can't you?! I will catch up properly later, am currently travelling in our new camper down to visit MSB's Nan!

drizz your SIL is beyond contemptible! I cast her in a Disney villan role Cruella de Ville, cruella de Ville.... Did you not smugly inform your colleague that us child-less people spend our weekends having lie ins and having all the sechs?! You know like, sechsing, you remember what it was like pre-kids making passionate lurve on a Sunday morning instead of squeezing a quickie in when the kids are asleep?!

evil I never thought much of racing until I moved to my current location, then got bitten by the bug! I used to work for these guys so was utterly spoilt with great horses.

Because Drizz, there cannot possibly be anything to do in life without having procreated . You should have said "My life is one long weekend, because I am not constantly running around doing laundry, making meals and clearing up sick and poo."

I know we don't really think that but hopefully that should shut up anyone who is smug about their life. I saw some pics on FB the other day of a group of friends I used to hang around with before I moved away and there they were, all sprogged up. Toddlers, small children, preggo tummies...everything. (I thought "God, am I the only infertile person I know in RL?") I said something tongue in cheek about them all having entered middle age and he said something back about me being jealous or something. I was so tempted to let rip but really couldn't be bothered :(

Stud duties for Frankel eh? Shame he isn't a human. We'd all be queuing up.

Wow, good vid. What an astonishing horse. I'm not hugely into racing (and flat racing in particular), but that is impressive! Eventing is more my thing, but it doesn't have quite the same following or monetary input. Murphy Himself was one of the most exciting horses I've ever seen. It must have been terrifying to ride him, he had no fear at all.

I am going to stalk him afterwards, but it's not the same as watching him run [wails].

Norf, it will be his last race ever as he will be starting stud duties in February, making lots of little Frankels. There is a very, very, very slim chance that he might have one more race, but it would have to be abroad as the turf flat racing season finishes in Europe at the start of November.

Is this his last race of the season or his last race ever?

Yep, draf, lots of my friends know, but I cant bear the thought of telling my parents. I think it's in case nothing ever works, in which case I think I would have to pretend that I had never tried, rather than admit I'd tried and failed.

FSR we'll be here to hold your hand through the withdrawal that will follow after the last race but weren't you going to stalk him afters, I don't recall Enjoy the last day of racing though!!

Oh yeah, leaving the house...

Oh, I know what you mean, norf. I have decided to tell my parents so many times and every time I've bottled it. It's weird, as all of our friends know but no family at all.

Yup, though in the case of his last race the tickets (capacity 35,000) sold out about a month ago.

It's a whole big day of racing, 6 or 7 races, with the top horses from across the country, plus quite a few from Ireland and France. It's sort of the big Finale to the end of the season IYSWIM.

It'll be on BBC1 too.

Oh his bravely fluttering tail! Sob!

How does one actually go to watch? Do you just turn up and pay some money and walk in?

Oh SB's parents know about the TTC woes, not yet about the MC, but I was talking about telling them what the witch SIL said... Well, SB was thinking about that. He wants to tell them about the MC but he hasn't. I am much closer to my parents than he is to his, so I went to my mum's and wailed after the bad scan. SB would never do anything like that . In some ways he is the man...

Right, time to do some actual work, away from the comfort of my couch. So waves and good weekends to you all! (I'll be back, just don't know when)!

Thanks Drizz, when you look at the stabbing that way, it doesn't sound too bad.

A new (and final [sob]) advert has been made for my namesake's last race in just over a week's time. I'm going (of course, duh!) but thought I'd share it with you all [sobs uncontrollably at thought of no more Frankel races to watch]

How come your parents know already but not SB's, lem? Was that a conscious or accidental thing? I am round the other way - I wouldn't mind AMNH's parents knowing the whole sorry story, but really feel unpleasantly vulnerable about revealing it to my parents.

I think I'll suggest your way of spending a weekend winkly to SB. It sounds quite good. Just wondering though, who peels their grapes?!? That does sound like someone with WAY too much time on their handse

Sorry, winkly, you were saying? Got a bit distracted there for a minute.

Thanks for the heads up the it is most definitely her not us/me. Thankfully I have no direct contact with her (don't even have her phone number) so I can't follow your excellent suggestion dot. But I'll keep it in mind.

What we're actually thinking of telling SB's parents so they can understand our unwillingness to do fun things with the whole family (two brother, two wifes, one baby and them). Otherwise it will be all lemon has an issue with her, lemon does not want to see them, lemon cannot deal with babies (on their side, I hasten to add). My MiL is quite jealous and always quietly but quite obviously compares how much we hang out with my brilliant family (remember, their response to MC was bringing food, flowers and love and fairly complete understanding of our grief and need to hide from babies) as compared to how much we hang out with SB's.

drizz at your stupid cow sil. Quite amazed SB managed to control his temper.

As for your work colleague - that puts me in mind of my sister's friend who I was talking to once, I said I was very busy at the time and she said "you can't possibly know what its like to be busy since you don't have any children" She makes snide little comments like this every single time I see her. Cos I just spend all my time lounging having a man in a loincloth feed me grapes.

lemons I think I would have sent her a text telling her to fuck the fuck right off and fuck off again until she can find a little bit of sensitivity. What a massive cow.

What a pair of stupid cows, drizz! I am preparing my most evil spell of all, and sharpening my wand in case it's easier just to stab them with it.