The PESH Deli; Won't somebody think of the children???????

[Cosmosis]

THE NOT LIST

BESH BAYBEES
dontrythisathome, girl born March 25.
Cheggers, twinz girlz, born April
FannyPriceless, boy, born June 8
CurlyCasper, girl, born June 24
CUNextTuesday, boy, born June 29
Skihorse, boy, born 1 July
Carrots, boy, born July
IggyPiggy, girl, born July

UPDIFFED
Cosmosis, the one that likes a good ride, due August 22
backinthebox, thinking of inventive uses for courgettes, due September 6
skatergrrrl, the one that overtook the rest, September 1
VAG, lives in De Nile, due 19 September
silversky, the biggest farter, due 18 October (first baybee)
Honeymoo, 3 wees a night, due October 31 (boy)
okiecokie, self-confessed control freak, due November 6
SomethingSuitablyWitty, benelux babe, due November 14
ReginaMonologue, knows when all the sales are, due November 20 (boy)
maswera, jungle hottie - due December 11
PollyPoo, wants to name her baybee after the dog, The New Messiah is due December 25

cos I could eat that now. How many does that serve?

Silver DD at 3years old (today! Happy Birfday DD!) is perfectly capable of ordering at the bar.

Gin has perfectly demonstrated why one might want to go to the Maldives. Good to hear they are lovely with teeny tinies too. Do you have a recommendation for island and resort? We weill be fine with flight, we are well practiced on aeroplanes . Ski have also been discussing next year's ski options. Sadly nothing as glam as yours - we will be shoe-horning as many of us as we can into our little apartment in the Pyrenees again on a budget kind of break.

Drom Rome is fantabulous - the best city in the world. Whilst pregnant one has to give into whatever one's body is demanding, so I recommend a few visits to Gelateria della Palma behind the Pantheon - just follow the stream of people coming out of an alleyway with ice cream! My body always needs ice cream - pregnant or not, and this is just the place to get it.

All you exercising girls - my new MW who stepped in at short notice to replace the mysteriously missing IM I had asked me yesterday in all seriousness if I was still horse riding. When I said I wasn't she just shrugged and said it was good exercise and I might want to think about hiking instead to replace it, as our woods are so nice for walking in. She was adamant that I do some kind of exercise though, and she didn't think a bit of pottering around with the chickens and a bit of mucking out was quite enough

box don't tell me your mw is some kind of triathelete hardcore gym bunny?!

Personally I know I need to donors than just walk the dog and go to the stables but I really am losing the will to live lacking in energy. Seriously if I could get away with a crafty snooze now I would.

Last night I was up at 1.45 am to pee, again at 3.40am and then the bloody cats got in the bedroom and decided 5.58 am is the perfect time to rise. So I kicked them out and went back to bed. Good job I put the alarm on snooze as I would have slipped back into my coma until who knows when!!

Life as a beached whale is proving tough.

box yes forgot about the flying

We stayed at Kanuhura. Lovely little villa thingy directly on the beach, just gorgeous. It doesn't have a house reef though if this is important to you. And it is fucking expensive. I very much doubt we will ever be having a honeymoon though so gotta do it sometime Also officially Best Breakfast In The World EVER so you barely need lunch (breakfast included,nothing else was.)

www.kanuhura.com

And the beach villa in the picture is really truly exactly what ours looked like.

Also box surely toddlers=exercise.... Whether you want it or not? Mine is exhausting! The loveliest scrummiest blah blah blah etc, but fucking hell he is so busy!!

I AM SO JEALOUS. I was contemplating the Maldives at Christmas because of all this inspiring conversation, but I will hopefully be 30/31 weeks and am not sure that I will be allowed to fly.

Oooh, and thanks for the ice-cream recommendation for Rome. Gelato is essential.

that's for 4, alledgegly

honey I honestly wasn't . I was trying to work out why specifically disposable ones were called for - t'answer makes sense! Obviously you will recycle the foil container, right? . Just joking.

silver you can use a babygown instead of a babygrow and would use other bedding as required. I've used our baby sleeping bags from birth - key is to make sure they can't wriggle down into them if they're a bit small (the baby, not the bag). Comma was fine at 7Lbs 9oz for his 0-3 months sleeping bags.

Sorry to hear about all the sickness going around. It's SO miserable, all that stuff It mostly passes, unless you're poor ol' skibird. But lots of sympathy.

Fark meGin*! I looked at the prices and thought that wasn't too expensive, then I realised that was per night, not per week! I'll have a bit of a web search later on for somewhere that looks as nice but maybe not as pricey!

Drom you can fly with most airlines until you are about 36 weeks, but you need a 'fit to fly' letter from your doctor past 28 weeks. The question is whether you will want to fly at 30 weeks? Personally, if you have no other children and are feeling healthy I reckon why not? When I was pregnant with DD I went to a horse training camp with big horse at 28 weeks and stayed in a tent for 4 days. I had to pitch my own tent, cook all my own meals sitting on the ground, and look after big horse - although I did have help from other camp attendees. I felt fine though. This time I went camping at the lovely British seaside for a week at 30 weeks. I wanted to sit down a lot, but managed a fair amount of beach-related activity and I also climbed up a tree house and did a toddler assault course. Twice . Now at 36 weeks I just want to hibernate. So it's up to you really. Don't ask over on the pregnancy forum though - they'll think you're menkul for doing anything more than live in a padded cell for 40 weeks!

As for exercise, yes, running round after a toddler is rather strenuous! MW looks more the sturdy Rambler's Association type than triathlete. Today I have done a bit of paddock maintenance - wore me out enough!

drom On another forum boxer and I frequent, a man was having kittens during the volcano as his wife was in Oz and her safe-to-fly about to expire... far-fetched I know, but if you're a worrier like me... also not sure I'd want to be sea-plane/boat access only from a developing world hospital and such a stage of pregnancy. How about St. Moritz?

box you can get deals. We shopped around a lot and got a good 'un thru virgin. Tho it was still expensive yes. I was pg at the time and it was gonna be our special big family hol just the 3 of us before the next one came along (obv didn't quite work like that...)

we were also worried about the business at the time and took the sensible,adult approach of blowing aiad of cash while we still had it

there are more expensive places believe me. Check out the Conrad...it has an underwater restaurant!

drom I flew at 20 something weeks, it was only 4.5 hrs or something but I remember thinking I wouldn't want to be much bigger flying economy. Is not v comfy. I have never flown posh class tho...

Oh drom link here We staying in their riyad in Marrakech for first 2 nights,then out there...flights were v cheap too

Btw prices for morocco link much less scary

I haz been pulling ragwort. Well not me officially I was bossing about kindly pointing out to a fellow livery what needed pulling and she obliged. Even pushed the barra'. I haz a degree in delegation. Now I am home and I MUST EAT!

Evening ladies, hope you are all fine this evening.

OMFG check out Living TV now "My Fake Baby!"

Have just spent 3.5 hours in IKEA. Fuck me I hate it there. Have pulled every muscle in my pelvis. Want to go to Maldives NOW! We went to Hufaven Fushi. Eye wateringly expensive and will probably never ever go back, but worth every single penny. Was wonderful for honeymoon. There was also a couple with a baby there in a beach bungalow, but apparently they won't allow little ones in the overwater ones there for safety.

So tired now. Is it the weekend yet?

We went to the Maldives for our honeymoon, twas blissful.

I went to my tap dancing class last night - I figured that as a supply teacher we had one week was still teaching at 8.5 months pregnant, I could carry on attending the class for a while yet.

I am going to be flying at 31 weeks this time for a mini holiday and 32 weeks for business. You need to check your insurance too as some don't cover you over 32 weeks and most only up to 28 weeks.

Box We went here for a posh week in Maldives and here for a more reasonably priced week.. We also has a week in Sri Lanka before so it was a lavish 3 week honeymoon affair but hey "I'm worth it" . Mr C and I dive so this was perfect for us. Of course, the diving is on the back burner at the moment...

I spent my honeymoon in a cabin in the middle of nowhere with no electricity. Bit jealous of all this Maldives talk. Although honeymoon was amazing.

Who didn't go to Maldives for their honeymoon?? Moo that is where all the celebs go!

Ha ha! Come to mention it, Meg Matthews and her new older husband were there looking uber tanned and quite wrinkly. Does that count? It was super fabulous I have to say... when we booked there was an element of denial involved and we just said fuck it let's do something we'll remember.

Cabin the middle of nowhere sounds like bliss right now. Call me pathetic middle class twat but I really like the sound of those Feather Down Farm 'glamping' places. Wood burner, double bed and a bucolic setting for that back to nature ruddy glow.

Well I buck the trend by not having had a honeymoon...we're not married. Hence deciding 'fuck it, we really should have a staggeringly ace holiday anyway...cos we're worth it too!'

Am v excited about morocco tho. Should be really really really chilled out (apart from the Marrakech bit obv)

muse where was the cabin? Sounds lovely! Most of my best holidays have been on small, slightly knackered n stinky boats

It was in Maine. Has anyone here read Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods? We were staying in the 100 mile wilderness at the end of the Appalachian Trail, the bit he got lost in.

Stayed at a campsite, little cabins by the lake. Had a hammock and a fire pit and all the wood we could gather from the forest.

It wasn't quite slumming it as it was fully catered, we went over to the main house for breakfast and dinner. Masses of simple homecooked food. Spent the days hiking and kayaking on the lake. Spent the evenings watching the camp fire before going to bed stupidly early. It was bliss. And there were husky puppies.

My latest bit of flying last time was at 39 weeks - in a 767 simulator. I scared the shit out of the pilot by firstly turning up looking like I'd swallowed a watermelon, and then by giving him an engine surge which kept popping and juddering and wouldn't stop, all with a rather hefty crosswind. I was evil in that job I liked it much more than the job they gave me this time!

Am very of all you people who have honeymooned in the Maldives. Long story I won't go into here meant I ended up on my honeymoon traipsing round Eastern Europe just after the Iron Curtain came down (yes, I KNOW that was a long time ago. I am old.) When we got to Budapest we new nothing of the place other than that was were goulash and Bull's Blood was from, so we indulged in them and afterwards I had a, ahem, incident involving a bathroom and a visit to hospital for a skin graft. Aah, it's a story to tell the grandkids, but I wish I'd been a bit older and richer and gone to the Maldives instead!