I wandered lonely as a PESH

[Muser]

That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
Of cackling, quaffing, ne-er-do-wells

Pull up a seat, grap a glass of vino and a piece of sushi, it's Delitime again.

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.
AlpinePony, boy, born 1 July.
Carrots, boy, born July.
IggyPiggy, girl, born July.
Cosmosis, boy, born Sept 5.
Backinthebox, boy, born Sept 7.
Skatergrrrl, girl, born Sept 10.
VAG, boy, born Oct 2.
Silversky, boy, born Nov 1
SomethingSuitablyWitty, awaiting update

UPDIFFED
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
MrsFC, joining whether she wants to or not, due 22 Jan
ChoChoSan, "and Lo! The lord did resurrect her petrified womb", due 31 Jan
CluckyKate, hatching an egg, due February 2
Perfect Dromedary, defied medical science, due February 24
Muser, will she ever stop puking?, due February 27
Ginhag, reckless cake-carrier, due 28th Feb
Medee, finally over the Haribo craving, due March 12
Casserole, completely out of witty things to add, due April 8
Scorpette, now carrying a RL baby in addition to Clothilda and the squid, due 21 May.
Laurielou, the unmarried hussy with the "surprise" diff, due 31 May (ish)
Rocketleaf, no longer jealous of morning sickness, due 1 June.
Twinkle Toes, supergluing her fanjo shut, due 23 June.

We had venison casserole from the freezer with mashed potato - just the thing on a cold night. The baby seemed to approve too.

That sounds a lovely walk home, Scorps.

I had to kind of abandon my car outside, as I drove it backwards and forwards for ages, but kept grinding up and down the snow, so MrM fixed it for me when he came home :)

I'd love to be finishing work sooner than the end of Feb (and it may well happen anyway as I am contract) but could do with staying on for financial reasons, plus I would probably be bored.

Sounds scary, Medee, glad you managed to basically got home. We've just been worriedly watching buses struggle to get up the hill. Think TYF might be 'forced' to have the day off work tomorrow This does mean, however, that he will want to watch the Willy Fogg dvd my brother bought me for my birthday. Yes, Willy Fogg. I am 38. I was not amused - he knows I prefer Mysterious Cities of Gold

Muse, on what channel is this classy baby shower? Am intrigued (we've got Freeview - bet it'll be some channel we don't get).

Oh it was some awful Sky one, Home & Health or something like that.

Venison casserole sounds delicious. My cottage pie was very tasty and there's just enough for my lunch tomorrow. Yum.

God, I wish we could get quality crappy channels on Freeview (iykwim).

You lot are such a bunch of fuckers! I have had a shit day with sciatica, mild SPD, work stress, and had to come to bed at 8:45 because I was being driven nuts by restless legs...made worse by being unable to fault the Boyf for laughing at me because I burst into tears 'because my legs are all tickly'. My only solace was to come on here and vent, and now I have got to be all nice, bah humbug!

Well, one thing I would say, is that all of the above would be tolerable if I had started ML...(note the goal here being ML, not baybee...keep your eyes on the prize girlfriends!)

Well if you will insist on wearing ridiculous spikey heels Cho... How long until mat leave starts?

And don't try being nice. I like the black-hearted black-humoured Cho best.

Seriously though, I am sorry to hear about nasty back and pelvis pain, you have my sympathies. How about a pint of sambuca and chinese burn to take your mind off it?

ML can't be too far off tho Cho - you iz getting close to the top of the list!!!

Had 30 week check-up today - BP normal, bump size normal, wee normal, baby's HR normal, iron levels normal. in and out in about 5 minutes. Dull, dull, dull

You've got to be all nice, Cho? Why break the habit of a lifetime, etc., etc.

Restless legs is a fucker of a condition. I had it for years but it's miraculously gone with pg (a rare health silver lining!) When do you start ML?

Not dull, MotherClucker - FAB! :)

Dull is good when it comes to MW visits Clucky! I like dull.

I had 37 week check up today, BP the same, all other stuff good, although possibility of thrush infection. Nice! Fingers crossed, all still good for homebirth.

Spiky heels make rare show these days Polpette, flats all round at work now, and couldn't even be bothered changing out of Nikes last week!

Not sure about ML yet...we shut down for two weeks over Xmas, so I might be rested enough to cram another coupla weeks of work in until week 37/38, but I am beginning to seize up now and waking often in the night, so we will see!

31 weeks now Clucky!

Hello Cho, sorry to hear about your woes.

Scorps I am still aggrieved about the interschool quiz rival team who got the point for answering "Willie Fogg" when I knew fine well the actual answer was Phileas Fogg.

Keeping fingers crossed for HB, PollyParrot

WTEWYE has diagnosed my bump-side pain as being "round ligament pain" - nothing to worry about on its own apparently.

ooh, look at that number of posts - need to start thinking about the list again.

Mmmm, venison casserole. I made Beef Chilli. Warming. Only a bit of snow here. Boo. Have to visit family in the homeland at weekend though so hopefully plenty there.

LadyGG, you're the latest addition to the Deli, I think. Wanna do the honours with the new fred (if that's okay with everyone else)? Come up with a good line for yourself, too :)

Medee, these things cut keen. I lost a point in the school book quiz for correctly asserting that the last in the Heidi series were not written by Johanna Spyri. But I haven't held a grudge or anything. BTW, good news it's 'just' RLP.

Poo, keep up the good work, hope the thrush suspicions come to naught

A propos of nothing, if I see that fucking Amanda Holden Xmas Tesco advert one more time I will not be responsible for my actions.

Tis official GaGa is Hilarious.

medee The rug will may be fine for years to come. I have a white sofa - Bear's not touched it, I've thrown a cup of coffee over it though in my sleep-deprived state. But who cares? We all know what we're getting in to in this game. If you want a white rug, enjoy it. Even if the baby doesn't destroy it in about 4 years you'll be hearing "mummy, canni havva puppy?" 500 times a day. At which point I think you should say yes and then let them run up and down Benachie 5 times a day - although could also prove useful for weaning.

Pol I've always found you acutely observant and very funny and I hope you're feeling better because the whole gammy leg around Tesco thing was just too vivid a mental image!

Its Chrrrriiiisssttmaaaaaas!

OK, so its not quite, but I do get a leetle bit excited at this time of the year.

So, pull up a chair by the fire, put on your manky Nana Christmas jumpers, help yourself to a Snowball (glace cherry optional) & lets all sing some carols.

I'm starting to look around my death trap of a home & thinking about baby proofing. I think it'll just be easier to house proof the baby. I'm going to have to learn to relax a bit - if Mr Loz leaves his shoes in the hallway my teeth start to itch.

laurie Bear is only just getting to not being where I left him at 5 months. So you've got a bit of time yet!

Me too loz have been thinking about all the dangerous cleaning products under the sink. and the bikes in the dining room, imagining a squashed toddler under a pile of spokes.

Los live with HI and you will soon get over the shoes thing cos HI leaves about ten pairs in various locations. Drives me frigging insane. Have given up keeping on top of it!

Given okie's "poo in a shoe" tale from yesterday, I'm sure things will reach a natural conclusion laurie - i.e., he'll start throwing putting them away.

Think I may positively encourage babyLoz to dump in his shoe - teach him a lesson.

That reminds me, we were dog sitting for his dad once, & the dog was obviously a little put out at having been deserted for a whole weekend. To illustrate this distress she crapped on the kitchen floor overnight. Mr Loz got up in the morning to lovingly make me breakfast in bed & stepped barefoot into the poo, which squelched up between his toes