Post Pill Party - The Ceilidh

@FlyingGiraffe I felt exactly the same this cycle, seems to have happened CD18 so hang in there!

@Kay00 I’m currently CD22 4dpo so too soon for anything exciting to be happening 😂

@flyinggiraffe hang in there, you're only CD17, there's plenty of time to ovulate yet!

@chinchilly where are you at in your cycle?

Gosh so many messages since Friday morning! Loved seeing everyone's pets and the renovation chat. I've been painting all the doors in our house this weekend and although it's the most tedious job (actually..I think that's going to be the skirting and architrave still to do!) it looks so good now it's done! For some reason the previous owners decided to paint one door cream and the others white. We didn't actually realise for about a year!

@abi555 Sorry your temperature has dropped. My line looked similar last month and I also had a bit of spotting on the day of the positive test. It's hard. Look after yourself.

@Cams50 Sorry AF turned up the other day. The month after I had my first double figure LP was my chemical last month. Obviously it would have been better if it were a sticky bean...but there's hope in that I think. Hopefully things are moving in the right direction for you now!

Hope everyone else is ok. There's so many messages and after a day back in work I'm not even going to attempt to reply to them all! Haha! I'm on CD17 today and still getting flashing smileys and negative IC's. Feel like it's just not going to happen this month!

@TheDaydreamBelievers sorry about the BFN, but you are right about the whole thing with the tests.

I’ve got a ridiculous amount of creamy CM like loooooooads!

@Kay00 I love your kitchen and garden!! 😍 and wow that pink bathroom before hand 😮 and your pink kitchen @MissC07! Some people at every brave with their decorating decisions.

@TheDaydreamBelievers sorry about the bfn. But I think you’re looking at it the right way. As much as it’ll be such a shame to miss out a cycle or two for the tests, the peace of mind I’m sure they’ll bring will be worth it.

@abi555 I’m sorry about that temp drop. So confusing. Hope you’re doing ok. Eat all the chocolate tonight ❤️

All the dog pictures are so cute 😍

@MissC07 Oh wow, you kitchen is huge!! So much cupboard space! I'm very jealous although I have to admit... I have had enough bright pink for one life time

I'll also check out your gardening program... I'm such an old fart lol, I love listening to gardeners question time on radio 4 haha!

@Juno231I love the idea of honeysuckle and jasmine on the pergola... the grapevine will be really slow growing too, so it will need some additional climbers

@Kay00 your bathroom is lovely! I love the flooring as well. The people who owned our house had very similar tastes to your previous owners. Everything was bright red or orange, including the bathroom floor. Also lovely little garden there, must be a great place to sit.

We bought our house 2 years ago and have almost finished the reno now. New kitchen, bathroom, en-suite, boiler, carpets, new windows and doors, several internal walls added. We've basically been living in a building site for the last 18 months and done most of it ourselves. Still have things like skirting boards to sort but almost there! With all this work I am definitely not planning on moving anytime soon 😅

@abi555 I'm so sorry it looks like it may be a chemical. With my chemical my lines did look very similar and never got darker but I was really hoping it wasn't the same for you. The week I didn't know what was happening was awful. When the tests went negative, although I was sad about it, there was a bit of relief about knowing what was happening so I could deal with it. Please look after yourself and do try to take the positives that you can get pregnant!

@TheDaydreamBelievers sorry about the BFN 😞

@MissC07 that kitchen is no where near as bad as I had pictured in my head! Just replacing the pink stuff would lift that kitchen up!

@Kay00 oooo that’s lovely!

Our garden is just a 2 level patio then very boring square of grass...it definitely needs some tlc in the summer

@kay00 omg that's stunning! there's so much potential with that pretty white stone wall - I def vote for some fragrant flowers like honeysuckle and jasmine to go on your pergola too. Maybe some pretty hellebores on the north facing wall?

@Juno231 I love my garden too... its small (smaller than my previous garden) but such a sun trap (it get super hot in the summer!). Here is a before an after from 2019 (haha... I do love them). The shelves etc are only temporary as we are having it properly done up this year, the plan is to have a Mediterranean style garden with a pergola and a grape vine... I can't wait!!

@Kay00 Your bathroom now is so nice!!! We really wanted a walk in shower and separate bath but don't have the space 😫 Your old bathroom and my current kitchen match - luckily for us they didn't leave the bright pink utensils (the pic below is the estate agent pics) 🤣

@Juno231 I actually LOL'd when you said about it looking like a sauna on zoom calls. And as for gardening I highly recommend the programme 'your garden made perfect' on bbc2! I used to watch the home one and they've just released a garden one I got so excited...! I promise I'm 32, not 92 😂

@abi555 Sorry to hear AF is on her way ❤️

@Juno231 this house was abit of a money making thing for us, we brought it from a family member who lives abroad (still at market value) we made a out £60k just knocking the front wall down that was restricting the driveway, taking up the care home style carpet and painting the walls! I’m hoping to get out in the garden this weekend!

@Kay00 personally I think you should of kept the pink 😂😂

@kay00 making a note of the tile company! Our garden is small so we can only extend a meter each way (to the side and back) but luckily I think that will be enough to make a difference.

@ChinChilly This isn't our forever home either. We bought it for the potential to make money - the same houses down the street with the renovations done sell for 300k more. Saying that, we might have to stay here a lot longer than planned because of the covid impact on the market...

Speaking of gardens - I spent the weekend weeding and I can't believe how happy I am still to have a garden! We were in a 1 bed flat before so this is my first little garden and I can't wait to do it up properly. Atm it has a huge shed in it that legit takes up 1/3 of the garden but there's not much point us doing anything with the layout as it will all be ruined by the kitchen extension... In the meantime I'm browsing hydrangeas, dahlias and bee friendly flowers on Sarah Raven like a madwoman...

@minipilling damn, i'm so sorry to hear that. Does exercise or stretching help at all? Or have you tried meditation for pain control? xx

@abi555 hugs I'm really hoping AF doesn't show. If she does, then please take care of yourself xx these are difficult times xx

Ref. the tiles, they were not even that expensive. They are ceramic wood effect tiles for Walls and Floors (online) and we have underfloor heating too .

@Juno231 I spent 2 whole years having a bath every single day in the 'angry pink' bathroom, and it was super grotty and cold... I hated it. Just keep focused on the end goal... I really is worth it in the end (even if it cost me about £10K with the new boiler too ahhh!!!)

BTW I love the idea of a wrap around kitchen extension, unfortunately there is no room for us to do that in our house as we only have a very small courtyard garden. The old 2 storey extension (build in Victorian times) is the utility room and the bathroom you see in the above picture.

@chinchilly If my original bathroom was floor to ceiling beige tiles I would have honestly just kept it. It was only because I was so gross that we have the full renovation in that room xx

@Juno231 our LA still does, can only extended outwards so to just extend the ‘L’ which is useless 😂 I don’t think this is our forever home anyway so I’m not sure how much more money I want to plough into it, we thought about remortgaging and getting the kitchen and bathroom done in a couple of years to make it easier to sell. I don’t really like the area anymore. With all the HS2 stuff people have started snapping up the houses and turning them into ‘professional’ HMO’s as we are a stones throw away from the train station. Once any of our immediate neighbours sell up we will probably be off too I think.

@abi555 I'm so sorry it looks like AF is coming! Like you said, it's brilliant your body knew what to do and I don't think it's bad to know about the CP just in case you need that info in the future. Fingers crossed that means next cycle is the one!

@Kay00 I love your new bathroom!! So beautiful. I'm planning to do something similar with ours currently. Can I ask what type of floor you have? It's lovely!

@MissC07 OMG your doggo is so cute!

@Emmgrem Thank you. Really appreciated your post!

Well, my temp plummeted this morning, so I reckon that confirms AF is on her way. Looks like have had a v early chemical this cycle. It's definitely been a rollercoaster of emotions with the am I/aren't I debacle. Feeling sad this morning, but taking the positives that at least it looks like something happened, so hopefully in future cycles we will get a stronger BFP.

@Kay00 wow that looks amazing! I'm so jealous - I don't even have a bathtub! Just a grotty shower that I'm pretty sure is leaking into the floor so I'm scared of what we'll find... There's def a leak in the roof somewhere as well so we'd better work on that 20% contingency before we start the work! Our bathroom is tiny - we're adding a foot to it out of bedroom 3 just to be able to squeeze a bath in...

@LauraT94 apparently only our lean to has asbestos but we'll need to get that removed as part of the kitchen reno next year. In the meantime we have ceiling tiles in several rooms which is an absolute fire hazard lol.

@ChinChilly what?? I didn't realise anywhere would disallow them still. We've got the same shape victorian, it's so impractical lol. Makes it super easy to find inspo on instagram though as all the layouts are the same!

@Kay00 unfortunately there isn't much more my GP can do on that front as I'm TTC so she suggested I not take codeine, mefemenic acid etc in case I fall pregnant :( have to stick with my paracetamol (I can't take ibuprofen for other reasons too). I have an acupressure mat (which again I should only use until I get pregnant), plus hot water bottle / heat pads and ice packs so that's as good as it'll get for me!

@Kay00 you’re bathroom is stunning 😍 sounds like the old owners loved abit of colour 😂 our bathroom is floor to ceiling beige tiles and they really bother me more than they should 🙄

Morning ladies.

@minipilling sorry to hear AF got you xx and that you're struggling with the pain so much it does indeed sound very rubbish. Is it worth speaking with your GP about pain management?

@LauraT94 annoyingly the only way to know what has happened is to keep testing... at 10/11DPO i'd hazard a guess that it was a false start and ovulation will happen towards the end of this week x

@Juno231 haha loving the retro wood panelling. My step-nan has some pretty awesome wood panelling going on in her kitchen... it'll probably be back in fashion on day... very much like the avocado bathroom suite .

I'm not sure I can share a picture of my kitchen... it's actually quite embarrassing as the walls are a dirty yellow and the old owners painted random flowers etc on the walls. It looks really very awful!

I'll share a before and after of my bathroom though which was done last year... I genuinely LOVE it. The before (bright pink) pic gives you an idea of the decorating style of the previous occupants haha!

@Juno231 the house reno sounds amazing, I really wanted a wrap around extension to the back of the house but the LA doesn’t allow them on doesn’t allow them 🙄 ours is a typical victorian L shape floorplan

@minipilling sorry AF is being such a cow!

I had a tiny temp rise this morning but my RHR looks like it does before AF rears her ugly head so who knows!

@LauraT94 what a cute cat! I’m so tired- I had such an awful nights sleep! I was so hot I couldn’t fall to sleep and then I was just having weird so realistic dreams when I did. 14po for real this time (what a shitting cycle I’ve had).

I’ve got some soy isoflavones coming for the next cycle though to hope I can try ovulate sooner.

How’re you? X