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

I'm an over-sensitive flower and someone on Chat has made me cry.

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Is your partner/donor getting his GCSE results today or collecting his pension?

Blast - cannot find questionnaire. Will have to make it up

We need to know;

• the colour of your walls
• number of cats (other pets acceptible, even if imaginary)
• secret lesbian crush
• secret crush of shame
• how big your judgeypants are
• favourite gin (other drinks acceptible and there is a teetotal loon member here too)

Here's a chewed bic.

Ooh fresh blood!

Have you completed the questionnaire?

Can I join? I'm quite nice.

Scorp - you don't know that yet - stop stressing until you can find out either way. In fact you are henceforth not to allowed to flap, panic or turn crazylady without a special pass signed in triplicate by all BESHes in the coven - then you are allowed five minutes of mentalism

GAH. Epic fail. Quite literally hoisted by own petard - woke up this morning and left nip is really hurty: mastalgia. One hurty nip (usually left one) is usual sign of impending R2D2. Have decided to maintain air of chilledness and only panic that I'm eggless, instead of all the other panics I could have at the same time

I've been reading loads of pg books from the library, to see which I would buy when updiffing occurs. I'm always reading 3 books at once; trashy crap like teen vampire rubbish, proppah liturachur, and non-fiction.
The girl who played with fire kicks arse - and the 2nd one is even better!

Cosmo - stay the fuck away from my 3-wheeler
Nah, it's not that type of disability and I don't drive anyway. Told you - am not a proper grown-up yet

Boohoo, no updiff (probably). Poor me

VAG The only chapters I haven't read have been the actual "birth" thing. la la la I can't hear you.

camel I haven't. I have to pace myself with Naomi Wolf because if I read more than a few chapters at a time I find myself twisting my hear in to dreadlocks, throwing out my heels and rioting (and off the cock obv.)

vag Was freaked out by myself! I love my reading habits and will defend commercial fiction to my last breath. However, I'm not usually quite so short on balance in my reading habits.

I LOVE the Dark is Rising. Love, love, love. Drunkenly bonded with one of my now-best mates over trying to remember the rhyme that structured the book.

Lyra Really liked This Charming Man, too. Is very, very dark.

I just read the new Marian Keyes on holiday, This Charming Man, and it was bloody brilliant - possibly her best ever.

Also it's 900 pages long so lasts for ages (well, nearly 2 days when reading avidly on the beach).

Deffo recommend for your hols extreme

I also read "The Reader" recently - about the concentration camp guard. I'd been putting it off as feared it would be heavy-going but it was really not. It was very well written, concise and deliberate and very thought-provoking. And not very long. I would recommend it. A really interesting novel.

I liked Notes On A Scandal and have actually re-read it.

What type of books do you like most? (I'm a Scandinavian crime fan and also love historical fiction, for example)

camel - reading doens't have to be serious! I recently re-read the entire Dark Is Rising sequence for fun! Sorry - it wasn't supposed to be a Spanish Inquisition (with comfy chair), I was just curious. (Also looking for ideas for Thai trip)

Pregnancy books seem v brave to me. I am in utter denial still though.

ski Have you read Misconceptions? The Naomi Wolf thing? Is marvellous for righteous feminist anger about pregnancy, thus combining two of your reading themes.

VAG To upset myself I'm reading a couple of pregnancy books. In one bathroom there is a "change your life in 5 minutes" type book. In the living room there is a "work related" book and in the other bathroom there's some feminist thing going on - I'm also on a horse-training book.

I am so disorganised I so rarely get the chance to sit down and read a novel - I actually prefer "facts". Sad, old git. I have a pile of "to read" books which take up two shelves - so they're not really a pile at all are they?

This is why I must get pregnant asap, I really need some time to read.

vag Still haven't managed to read The Girl Who Played With Fire, but is definitely on my hit list.

Wow. Your question has just freaked me out. I haven't read anything serious in months. On holiday, I read only frivol. And I'm currently in the middle of a work-reading fest, so the last book I finished was called Motive: Secret Baby. The one before that? A Special Kind of Family.

scorps does that mean you have a v handy blue parking badge you can lend out to us so we can park acutally near the shops?? Can I be your bestest friend? I promise to love you forever if you'll lend it to me??

Ginny - we need an Update!

Passing book on = good. Throwing books away = akin to burning them. I was (luckily) stunned when SIL said she'd thrown books away when moving. (Luckily, since otherwise would have hurled abuse at her otherwise rather nice and reasonable personage) Why why why would anyone do this?

What's everyone reading right now? I've just finished 'The Girl Who Played With Fire' - fabbo.

Passing books on is always good karma. And Marian Keyes is fab; just because they package her in a chicklit way doesn't mean that her writing is rubbish - lady gives good emotion. After all, Rachel's Holiday is all about rehab...

Am 3 dpo and feeling vomitty. Probably a reaction to 2 weeks of booze & food.

gin poas news this morning?

What does [jd emoticon] mean? What what what?

I might be able to eek out some imaginary sypmtoms... twitchy womb and slight sicky feeling. However both could be otherwise explained easily enough - former: overactive imagination, latter: dodgy curry.

GIN - SPEAK TO US!!

extremesitting one of the lads in my office bought an i-phone and bunged his work SIM card in there. Because work don't have an "internet package" as such, his work iphone was "talking" to the internet every 15 minutes for months. His bll has come in at thousands a month . Work are not happy.

Well I thought I was on the way to earning more karma but i fear I've shot myself in the foot instead. Because we're moving again I'm being really ruthless with my books and throwing out everything I've not looked at in a year or will never read again. So I contacted one of my colleagues yesterday and asked if she'd like them (english language books are so expensive here) and I've just handed them over. She's russian and was saying she doesn't get much time to read classic literature but obviously she's read Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy - (pronounced in the most amazing way - I shall be practising to myself all day) and that she was looking forward to reading classic English literature. And... I handed over 3 large carrier bags mostly containing Marion Keyes, Confessions of a Shopaholic et al. There are a couple of classics in there... but there are a few Jackie Collins. She's going to think we're all heathens.

Anyone diffed or imaginary diffed?

Medee If you are pregnant, the baby has an independent bloody and circulatory system until it's ~6 weeks old. Nothing you do at this stage will make any difference to your pregnancy. You could spend all day bungee-jumping and sipping cocktails - it'll either implant or it won't. The UK and the US are the only countries which seem to totally freak out about alcohol and pregnancy... Anyone else remember the Roddy Doyle film where our pregnant heroine pukes in her handbag after too many shandys? Nobody is advocating a bottle of vodka a day, but a couple of glasses a week won't mean you give birth to Wayne Rooney!.

Disclaimer: I'm not a mother so my opinion counts for shit obviously.