The PESH Deli serving gin cocktails, blue cheese and softly cooked egg sarnies

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Welcoming all BESH PESH "grads". Full bar service. Today serving:

Softly scrambled eggs with a side order of prawns, moules mariniere, pate on toast, swordfish and tuna bake with a full cheese board of stilton and unpasturised brie.

I'm heeere!!! No sooner had we got tinternet mended than we went off into the Land of No Computers (ie mil's). Anyhow, back now innit.

So I spent all of Christmas eve, Christmas day, boxing day and the day after boxing day feeling pretty queasy, but essentially ok as long as I kept on nibbling. Tried a sip of champers on Christmas day, which tasted totally foul, so stuck to my elderflower after that.

Then yesterday, woke up feeling utterly horrendous, retched over the loo before getting dressed. MIL whipped out a ginger biscuit for me, which promptly went down the loo. As did the first half of my piece of toast. Then felt fine again. Finished the toast, cup of coffee, all fine. Packed up, got in car, started feeling shite again. Had to get TGO to pull over on side of A65 to let me vom (apologies to all other drivers who no doubt were tutting and headshaking and assuming I was hungover. If only.).

By this time I was in tears, saying to TGO I can?t do this for 6 more weeks, I can?t I can?t etc. He was eating fruit pastilles, which smelt disgusting.

Managed to struggle out to a friends surprise 40th party last night, hid in the corner looking green. Came home early, went to bed at 9.

Woke up this morning feeling absolutely fine.

Think I had actually caught the bug my 8 yr old nephew had on boxing day (we saw them the day after).

I'm sure I came on here again to say that "fine" mean queasy but ok. weird.

I feel so ill and bloated all the time that I avoid wearing a bra now as much as I possible can! And I'm 34E! I just wear a vest and make sure I've got an enormous jumper/coat on so nobody can really see the jiggly nipply horror lurking underneath. Thank god you can get away with that in the country in winter.

I have a couple of Hot Milk nursing bras from last time that I will start using soon. They are definitely the nicest non-underwire I have ever come across. They actually have some shape to the cup and even look a bit sexy. Here but you might find them cheaper if you search around.

Cosmosis I am not laughing at you, but with you - partially for the queasiness you were so smug about not having just a week ago, and partially for the baby-head-recoil-in-horror thing!

Ponymum Yes, I thought the Hot Milk stuff looked quite nice, BUT, it's called "Hot Milk" - did they really feel the need to make breast-feeding sound "sexy"?

TGO didn't help - look at that baby he said, that's not so big. (ie you can squeeze that out no worries love). I say "that's a little one, it was a twin. "oh" he says, shocked silence......

ski Yes, it is truly terrible branding. Cringe-inducing. But nice bras.

ski breastfeeding IS sexy. It felt wonderful to me. I have never felt so good about my breasts as after I started breastfeeding and I still find them massively erotic (you feel weird about those nipple tweaks now, EH ). It was always very "pleasurable" to feed LC.

Or, it could just me be and I've now outed myself as a weirdo.

Actually I don't care a button, I don't care a fig, in a nursing bra I'll go to breastfeed in public.

May I say rots: WEIRDO!

Not like that for me at all. I had no problem BF in public, but seriously it's the opposite of erotic!

What can I say?

Oh, erm I should perhaps clarify that BF in public wasn't erotic . But BF generally felt really nice (after the first few weeks of hell). Apparently it's not uncommon for people to orgasm while BF! I didn't ever get that far though - maybe this time.

Bah - just when I thought it was all getting better I got hit by nausea and fatigue yesterday evening, was seriously panting walking back from our dog walk this morning and have just spent 20 minutes with my head in the bog. I dearly hope this means my little muffin is growing well and is happy.

I may spend the rest of my pregnancy eating nothing but Emmental. Yum yum!

So in our infinite wisdom (or rather because we were put on the spot and couldn?t come up with a valid excuse) we have accepted an invitation to go round to a friend?s for cocktails on NYE. There will be 6 people there are the most I think, so I can?t really hide not drinking. What the hell excuse can I come up with? She?s even offered us a bed ? so we need to find a valid reason for me having to drive home.

Help me please creative liars!!

cosmosis
-Your pet is sick and you need to get back to give it the medication
-Your elderly neighbour has asked you to help with something in the morning
-You have a sore back and need to sleep on your own special mattress
-Your nephew is going to a party in your town and your aunt has asked if he can sleep over at your place so you need to be there
-OR... So sorry I can't drink because I'm just getting over this awful tummy bug and still feel quite queasy (nobody believes the antibiotics thing)

Any good?

I find a nasty bout of kidney trouble/cystitis used to head people off at the pass. More specific than 'I'm on antibiotics' and who's to know? The excuse you need to drink lots of cranberry juice and pomegranate juice with soda water (or better still, ginger ale - highly recommended)

Mind I have knackered kidneys anyway so people tended to believe me...

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PONIEZ PONIEZ111111!!!!!!!!!!!! 11!!!! 111!!!!!

Hombre is doing price comparisons on 'travel systems'!!!! We think we've found one!!!

How about launching in to a tirade about how you treat your body like a temple and won't poison it with alcohol just to give "them" cheap laughs. Tell them that you've "grown up" and they can either accept it or fuck off.

cunty "Travel system"? What? like teleportation and everyfink?

ski Welcome to a whole new vocabulary world! Cunty means a pram/buggy what also takes a baby car seat and basinette. People go mental over this stuff.

(By the way, best is this one!)

I seem to be quite lucky here in NL as it appears to be the motherland of prams/combi/stuff.

Chah! @ pone. The best one is quite clearly and comprehensively this one

Which is the one I will be getting, but not yet, apparently

Wheeled it round Bentalls yesterday and not only is it light as a feather but you can turn it on a sixpence, and Hombre fancied himself a bit when he was pushing it

All boxes ticked.

I feel very reluctant to make baby purchases yet... I suppose I'll feel better about it all in months to come. Cunty has all your sickness passed now?

cunty I'm not sure if this is exactly the same one but it's going in my local baby megastore for 500 euros... worth seeing if they'll deliver to UK? www.baby-dump.nl/index.php?page=product&id=5454&groep_id=596&merk=1132&m=1132

Indeed it will ski - Hombre's face has lit up at the prospect of a bargain...

Yes sickness has passed this last week or so (or the feeling of sickness anyway - never sick per se). Not fully regained my appetite but I can live with that

Now plagued with odd stabby pains now and again. Can't decide if it's constipation or growing pains, or both. And a firm tum. First time in many, many years.

Cunty You made my eyes water with the price of that. And have you not started worrying about the safety stats on the infant car seat yet? That's the complication that drove me completely mental last time.

ski Why is that shop called Baby Dump? Do they specialise in nappies?

Safety stats on infant car seats???