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.

curly Sorry you're not feeling well. Hope the scan goes well tomorrow.

ski I have the same attitude as you - very private about work / life separation. Also I did not want all the pathetic soppy bints nosey women acting like they 'owned' my pregnancy, or trying to give me advice and pat me on the head! So I told my boss as per the requirements, and one colleague who is a friend, but no-one else. Seriously, most of them didn't click until they heard I was off on maternity leave! I didn't spend a lot of time in the office, but when I did I would just breeze in wearing a floaty top or an A-line dress and it went completely unnoticed. I count it as a sort of little victory. But then I am weird.

ski I haz had a saab just before the landy - pleased me greatly that it had ski slots in the boot - like i could use them in England I has lovely audi now - estate thing with 4wd - i does love cars...

I am much happier now ski muchly so.. and i too hate the idea of telling people... speshully dreading telling my single childless 53 yr old female boss on mon..

Wow pony !!

cas also sorry about your feeling rubbish

Ours is a Defender, iggs. 12 seater station waggon with a huge dent in the side where my bro reversed at speed into a bank while offroading. Any other vehicle, people go, "oh no! what happened to your car?". With a Landie people look at it and go, "respeeeect".

Also a big Saab fan - they're superb. I had a little Seat until recently which was also excellent in the snow, perfect for a dog and small child, economical and comfortable brilliant. We sold it as YOB had the landy and a volvo, 3 cars was ridiculous, and we use the landy as little as poss as it's less fuel efficient than the volvo of course, but even then it's amazing how often we need the loading space. Lovit.

Just found in my diary that I have a MW appointment on Friday so will get her to pull out the doppler then, which will make me feel MUCH better. I'm not stressing, just ready for reassurance if that makes sense.

Oh and ski as I work with my parents I have no such luxury/dilemma but I do understand - I don't really want to tell the factory staff, although we will after scan/blood results.

Please ladies, give your sympathy to someone who is less of a whinger - you're making me sniffle more

I keep having to tell people at work because my work essentially involves having my nose in (and assisting with) everyone else's business, and they'll tell me what they are doing in July, August, September...December next year, and ask if I can help, and I keep having to say "well, I won't be here for that but I'll make sure my maternity cover is fully briefed". Of course, with some things, I'm taking great delight in declaring that I won't be there

I am currently eating a mozzarella, anchovie, and pineapple toasted sandwich. Anyone want some?

Only if you ditch the anchovies...

Is that a craving pone? Or do you just eat wierd stuff for lunch? (I want a craving!)

Refusing anchovies? Just how pregnant are you?

No, it's not a craving. Sadly I like anchovies even when not pregnant, just not usually with pineapple. Is there such a thing as a 'weird food combination craving'? That would count, surely.

Well my fav pizza topping (preg or otherwise) is pineapple, sweetcorn and anchovies. As YOB says, there's no such thing as a wrong pizza topping.

I love anchovies on Pizza... not pineapple tho... my fave topping is pepperoni anchovies and jalapeno peppers...

I have been SO greedy today...

I had a serious anchovy craving around week 8 I think. I forced jailbait to go out and collect a pizza for me and I sucked on the anchovies... I was really craving salt and perhaps iodine (???). Hit the spot nicely though!

Worst car evah for the snow? Approximately 6 months after I bought a house in the sub-alps I bought a BMW. Rear-wheel drive. Summer tyres. x 1000 Oooh spinny-spin-spin - I lost count of the times I'd do a 180 - seriously scary stuff and I've still not really got my confidence back to drive in snow yet... despite now having the aforementioned front-wheel drive Saab.

Pineapple in ANYTHING but fruit salad is mucho wrongo!

My fave pizza topping is pizza

Silverskin onions + cheddar + pineapple chunks on sticks = heaven (made and scoffed loads at New Year)

cassie dominos def don't do that as a topping....

I just got in from work and had a bagel with Primula cheese spread with ham

Cassie You iz odd. Are you living in the 70s?

iggy"missionary"piggy I too was very proud of my non-syphillitic, non-AIDS, non-hep status!

pineapple on pizza is ace. Fact. Oh and cassie was it done as a hedgepig, please say it was so?

cunty i thought me and TGO were weird for liking primula cheese, is lush innit.

Primula cheese and 70s/80s party food are my faves! Classy bird that I am

Oh god my sister did cheese and pineapple on stix for her new year buffet tea. I was straight back to 1980 in my smocked party dress.... I'm going to make them for the next time someone comes round - friends, family, postman, man checking meter, anyone.

You gotta stick em into half a grapefruit to make a hedgehog though otherwise it doesn't count. My mum used to do that.

Why the fuck do they test for syphilis?!! When did someone last have that...?!

Pleased to not have it tho....

what else have you not got iggy?

I better be in the clear - in my journo days, but after I got together with my other half - I went through the embarrassment of getting tested for EVERYTHING for a feature I was writing about the alarming rise in STI rates among under 25s. Thank fuck I was clear - and I've only been with SFF since.

I should add that I was disease free but in the end I settled for peace of mind and could not bring myself to report on myself in the article. Hence why I'm not a working journo anymore - wimp!

I dunno - considering i have a degree in animal physiology alot of it not making much sense to me - i have a huge list of results from the blood work... Apparently I am o positive and have immunity to rubella tho!

After being infected with not one but two (treatable) things by a BF about 10 years ago (and we were together for about 5 years before I found out - this was no casual thing which I just don't do and never have) I have always ensured that anyone thereafter is tested for everything before anything. There's "only" been two since and both of them I married (not at the same time!).

Something like 1 in 10 people have chlamydia, more have HPV (genital warts which can lead to cervical cancer), and syphilis is actually more common than ever.

Really, it's terrible that it's so under the carpet as these can be horrific diseases if untreated (much of today's female infertility is caused by untreated "silent" chlamydia) and so what if they're sexually transmitted. It doesn't mean that someone's a slapper just coz they get them - almost everyone has sex and therefore almost everyone is open to catching these things even if they only ever have one partner.

rots syphilis is still very rare in the UK tho... The latest figures say that there were only 285 women infected with it in the UK (2007) (more men tho) - which is pretty much nothing... so while it's increased a little... is still fucking unlikely!