Due April 2009: Episode 15 - Barbarellys Babies Break free & BB waits paitiently (LOL not!!)

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Sorry BB Love you really xxxx

LuLu - I now have you marked up as the person to speak to for gardening advice. I attacked my herb garden this morning (for 'herb garden' read 'small bed under kitchen window which already had herbs in it when we moved in'), but I'm afraid my gardening style is 'chop off anything that looks dead and throw on the lawn for DH to clear up'.

Nutty - Mr Darcy not dirty boy, v.clean, washes in pond regularly.

I washed some baby clothes today - how on earth are you supposed to dry all the tiny booties and mittens and hats, without loosing any? Is it a bit early to be doing baby washing?

LuLu! Not even just watching them? But the men! The men are so lovely!

& sorry, electra! Must've totally missed your post If you're not feeling them, then they're just the 'normal' BH, which are good - they're just prodding your LO around into position & toning up your uterus to help you in the real thing. Everyone has them & that's how they're meant to be & I'm not sure if I've missed something, but aren't they only sending you for the scan as a precaution because the fundal measurement is a bit on the small side? Because that really doesn't mean anything, as you know - the scan will give a much better indication & it's highly likely that there's nothing wrong in the slightest

Springy - glad you're resting! xx ((hugs))

LuLu - oohh yay for everything coming together for you and your perkiness

Brandon for me i think

I have read P&P countless times as I feel like I am missing something, but I just don't enjoy her. Yes, I can appreciate that she is a skilled writer, I just don't think I enjoy the characters that much. Love George Eliot, Brontes etc...

Never said anything about liking Jane Austen. It's Colin Firth, Greg Wise, Alan Rickman et al that I'm thinking about!

Heathcliff & Mr Rochester! Ooh yes!

Springy - occasionally watching them can work (costumes and lovely English countryside can keep me entertained for a while) - but couldn't bear Keira Knightley in the last P&P.

Alan Rickman? [drooling emoticon]

which one is he in?

Oh gosh, I hate that woman. Can't stand her. She was frame-by-frame airbrushed in that film - how very Elizabeth Bennett indeed I refuse to watch it on principle - saw about 10 minutes once & found it unbearable.

Related to lovely men, but off-topic, is it just me that finds the tone of this article to be a bit unkind?

As we are confessing I have never read any of these books! No harry potter, or anything like that!(I have also never watched a james bond / superman / batman film to anything like that which never ceases to shock people!)

I tend to read chick lit or books like a thousand splendid sons / first they killed my father - always wanted to go and work in a third world country for a few years but never actually did it so now I read about it! I alternate between the two so not to depress myself too much or get too girly!!!

Alan Rickman = Colonel Brandon in S&S.
Though that now leads me down the Sheriff of Nottingham route....mmmmmm....now he's a very naughty boy.

Oh dear. Sound like nympho meathead.

My lack of enjoyment of Austen actually really frustrates me. I feel sure that it must be great literature as all her books are so wildly popular and I feel I'm missing something, hence my re-reading and re-reading of P&P. I did the same with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Read it 3 times in a row without pause. And still hated it. But I think the fault must be with me.

OH BB - x posts.

Thank goodness. I read the first 2.5 Harry Potters and really got bored after that.

I do like James Bond films though. And I really like the super-kitsch old Batman TV series. Sooooo camp!

I do like a bit of chicklit. Something where you don't really have to engage your brain too much. I love India Knight's two (Don't You Want Me? and My Life on a Plate) - have read them again and again, and cry at both, like a fool!

Try to steer clear of the gloomy ones.

Keira Knightly? Well, she can foxtrot oscar, quite frankly, which is rude and unnecessary, but she deserves it!!!

Jewesm - I'll have to check out S&S - haven't seen it.

BB, I've seen very few Bond, no Superman films & only the second half of the most recent Batman film. I've also never seen a single Star Wars film, which people find somehow hard to believe - I'm not sure why that is.

& LuLu, I wouldn't actually say that Austen is 'great literature' in a definitive way. I enjoy her stuff (although haven't read as much of it as I may have done!), but find watching it perfectly satisfactory, to be honest. I do enjoy her books, I find her to be quite funny & insightful, & find that insight into her society to be enjoyable in itself. But, IMHO, I don't think that it's desperately clever or outstanding in many ways. One of the exceptional things is that it is a satirical portrait of a woman's society, of which there is an obvious lack of from that time. I find her interesting & enjoy her characters, but I can understand why you don't feel compelled to plough through everything she's ever written.

Poor Gary Barlow! I collapse of exhaustion walking into town! And he was never the fittest of The That, bless him.

ooooohhhhh Mr Knightly >>

Electra - sorry you have had a rough time at the moment ((hugs))good for the monitoring in one way though. Good luck for friday, do let us know how it goes xxx

LuLu - Hooray for double Buggy watch the films it may just be the writing style you dont like

Springy - the weasleys are fab

Juwesm - ROFL at Clean Boy 7

NOOOOOOO KIERA KNIGHTLY! NO bad LULU!! bad version. i wont watch it in principal lol [gring]

BB - i am queen of the bonkbuster (love Louise and Tilly Bagshawe, jully cooper etc) i just throw a bit of "proper" literature in there so i dont let my brother down and i feel i have to

Oh I read My Life on a Plate. I did enjoy it but it was so autobiographical that it made me uncomfortable at times. I find when journos shamelessly turn their lives into fiction I feel a bit voyeuristic - reading about the ins & outs of their divorces etc. Like Tony Parson's Man & Boy about Julie Burchill leaving him and their son.

Hi - thanks for replies Springy, yes I've had two growth scans since and the baby has crossed another centile line. I have my next one on Friday and that will be more conclusive - if it has crossed the final line I guess they will then be more concerned. I'm hoping it will look better. I feel bad because I have been so stressed in this pregnancy and have had so many upsets that I'm not surprised the pregnancy isn't going great tbh....but the midwives have said to me that babies are very robust and usually built to survive that kind of thing. I'm 33+5 so hopefully when the baby does arrive, whatever the circumstances it will be ok...

Have you all packed your hospital bags? I have started doing it now because it's looking a bit less likely that I will be able to have this baby at home. In the past I have never had one ready at all and exasperated everyone when I rolled up at the hospital with nothing, not even nappies I can never somehow believe that the baby is going to come out

what did I miss on Gary Barlow?

oh got it now - he was on the radio just fine so not sure that is so true!!!

Yes LuLu - the divorce part is very uncomfortable. That is the part that usually has me in tears. Once I have DCs, I'm sure it will be even worse when I read it back.

Off on a tangent (though Rickman related) - in Love Actually, are Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson still together at the end or not?

oohhhh Love actually is fab. Yep i think they are, though its far too open to interpretation.