Mid 30's TTC - you're my BESH mate you are..... <hic hic>

Sindy here too, Barbie was whispers common.

Mmmm, thanks Cosmo, I was eating whilst I read that! [projectile vomit emoticon]

Glad it's gone, anyhoo

Poor Longwee

Thankee extreme for my Referencing Prize. I'm a bit of a pop culture maven, whereas TYF hasn't even heard of stuff from his own teens It's got to be Sindy for me AND Jackie, of course! When I was @11, two grown sisters down the road who used to babysit gave me their massive Jackie hoard from the 70s and it was a-mazing! Think it's left me with an obsessions about things like dry shampoo and rainbow platform knee-boots, but never mind.

Well, am bit worried. Having womb crampings BUT they're different from what I've been having; these had that sort of feverish discomfort (iykwim) that pre- and post- worst period pain day pains have. And it's on the left, like p pains. And the left nip has started hurting a bit again. Worried something had been happening but has gone wrong. All knicker- and loo roll-checking is showing nothing, hurrah. Still feel sick as a dog, mind. Aaaaargh, the torment! Less than 48 hrs now till R2D2 should show up so I will be hoping like I've never done before that nothing menstrual happens!

BTW ski - I wish to hear more of these boarding school days. Sounds interesting!

I think the Hag is in cornwall, no?

Arses to all the babyfailers. I prescribe a couple of rounds of tequila slammers.

do you want a fanjo boil update? No? Well you're getting one anyway!

It burst!!!!!! The relief is indescribable.

I got home last night and decided to put a hot flannel on it as some googling (urgh) had revealed this might help clear it quicker. I got as far as brushing it with a finger and it spunked green lumpy goo all over me. I practically drowned in the stuff. At my shriek of horror, TGO came running to admire my Green Tide of Doom and we both stared in fascination as I filled the bathroom up to our knees in it.

Who says romance is dead???

Anyhow, lordy do I feel better now! I swear I must have lost about 3lbs. And I can sit legs together all feminine like again in stead of a manly legs wide apart as if terrified of squashing my balls.

Did we all read Jackie magazine as well? Or are there some cool kids who got Just 17? I was a sap and went for Jackie coz of the photo stories.

If I hadn't actually started my period I would be starting to think I was pg... Felt really sick this morning and then randomly burst into tears just as I was leaving for work - which ain't the kinda thing I normally do. However both can be attributed to the fact that I just couldn't sleep last night for some reason - managed to get an hour or so in as it was getting light. I think my body has realised it can conspire against me to fuck me off twice in a month instead of once. Got a splodge of brown last night to announce start of RTOD - then nothing for a bit - and I know full well that as soon as I start to think 'ooh maybe it was just spotting or whatever that bleeding when pg thing is called' I will get the full flow of RTOD thus dashing my hopes for a second time in a month

Where the hell is ginhag? She owes us some news...

I went to boarding school and mostly it was weirdos + bitchy cliques. I did however pick up the following skills : smoking, snogging boys waaaaaay too old for me and cajoling Russian fisherman in to handing over their vodka.

Funnily enough - I just fb'd a girl I "roomed" with and she was the skinniest wee thing back then - now she looks like some Wiccan earth mother.

Oooh, boarding school! I want to be the feisty, headstrong tomboy who always has dirty socks and skinned knees, but, after some of the older girls take her under their wing, they reveal that she is actually a true beauty, etc., etc., blah blah.

Yes, I was fixated with read the Mallory Towers books as a child, why do you ask?

Our menstrual cycles seem to have synchronised, just like at boarding school.

Shit, there are bedrooms? I've been waiting till the place is empty to molest the Desperate Romantics!

well why the hell not - there's some sort of contraption in one of the Palace bedrooms designed for that veeeeeeery purpose

trog "bottoms up"? Is this your suggested alternative whilst RTOD is in full flow?

Scorpette Body Pump - ooooooowooooh body pump for youuuuuuu! It's a weights class - makes a nice change from doing the weights yourself and it's the only thing which really tones my triceps.

Gah @ so many RTODs. Commiserations everyone but bottoms up eh?

PS To anyone who's ever wondered how those Northern abbreviations work, 'part o' t'world' is pronounced 'partut world'. ie, pronounced CORRECTLY!

Big to the babyfailers too. Don't forget to plough through that case of wine I brought earlier

ski - pump class? Tee hee! Pump means something very different in my part o' t'world

Gotta love the way pro-life fucktards think that being pro-choice means you actively want unborn children to die. I mean, who'd be for that (apart from the Chinese State, etc)?!? And I know it's unoriginal to say, but how can you be pro-life and then go murder real, living humans? Durr. I had such a long argument with an American once who said that the morning after pill was the same as abortion; they insisted that conception (and therefore life) happened at the moment of ejaculation. I pointed out that sperm take up to 3 days to reach the egg, so conception doesn't happen for at least 48 hours after sex, so if the m.a. pill stops the egg and sperm meeting, then how is it abortion? To their credit, they admitted they didn't know how it worked and changed their opinion, but FFS!

Mind you, it's to our credit that BESH-babymania hasn't turned us all into raving pro-life loonytunes!

Yet.

I'm sorry for all you babyfailers

Scorpette The month I fell pregnant I had to stop in the middle of my pump class to sit on my step for a minute.

I'm just back from 2 hour ride - woop! No foetus is going to stick the way I'm riding right now - I'm actually bleeding (from my arm). (brambles , nothing exciting)

Yes, the fb status was due to that thread. It's depressing. I've a US "friend" who votes republican because she thinks abortion is killing babies and is wrong... I asked her if she wanted a choice? She didn't understand that pro-choice wasn't about killing babies indiscriminately. sigh 2 + fucking 2 people

evening ladies. Are sore nipples A Sign? I've had them for several days.

shit. sorry BESHies. Day 20 here and lower back very, very sore. Prob cos I've been on my feet all day , but a girl is allowed to speculate...

SFF not quite ready to talk prams etc, but has just asked when I can test

Babyfail here too. I don't think I'm particularly arsed - I've got a bit bored with myself now...

Yeah I saw that 'will I find love as a feminist' - seriously - what planet are these people on??

Definitely bastardly.

I have a cool holiday planned for May so deep down okay with being Barren until... Nov (you can fly at 7 months preggers, right?).

RTOD here too!

Hello drunken friends!

Ha, extreme, you're admitting to all the bonkers things I've been doing for a few years - reluctant to buy clothes OR I've bought smocky/loose tops and dresses on the grounds that I'll get good wear out of them when I'm pg , just like Pony! And I've have also planned just about every purchase required for future sprogs (though that cot manufacturer you mention sounds intriguing), and have researched in depth alternative nappy types, all that sort of stuff

Also bought most gorgeous little babygro earlier this year (have not admitted this to anyone but TYF) - 'twas from Topshop Mini range, and is unisex - navy and white striped with a purple star on it. My ovaries punched me in the eyes when I saw it, so I just had to have it!

Sadly, Ponymum, I wouldn't be able to use manly car/engineering talk to persuade him about a pram, as he is finds that sort of subject as boring as I do (not casting aspersions on your fella, of course). I won't worry - he can't say no to me (especially in a low-cut top ).

Chin up VAG! So I can PUNCH YOU REPEATEDLY whilst yelling 'You will, you WILL! till you go deaf. Feel better now? I said, FEEL BETTER NOW?

I felt pg in the gym - having to stop cardio after 500 cals burned, whereas I usually do at least 700, felt weak doing weights and felt sick all the time, in fact, nearly spewing when doing crunches and norks aching in general. And yes, I read a book about fitness in pregnancy to check if everything I was doing was okay. I'm a proper BESH, me! Of course, not even had BFP - and bastard Tesco sold out of their own-brand tests

I voted 'no MN in the Daily Heil, whatsoever' in the poll. Fucking rightwing bastards.

PS Ski - is your FB status related to the twatsome AIBU topic about 'Can a feminist find love'?