The PESH deli - where the goal is to get a nice holiday/back in the saddle

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I haz made new fred.

Golly what a lot of horsey folk! I am jealous... I used to ride And read Jills Gymkana until I was about 15 and then discovered boys. I do have a hankering for that lovely smell though. Sadly I'm not sure I could get my arse up there any more and London stables are apparently pretty £££.

I bullied mr moo into buying an expensive dishwasher last night. He is sulking now cos I won't let him buy a music amp when we have hifis (or whatever the fk they call them now) in every room. I am so excited that I won't need to hand wash every frigging thing that comes out the dishwasher in the future. I think he got scared when I told him hecwould be responsible for cooking, washing and general household stuff for the first while after the baby comes. Ha!

honeymoo I had to give up at 15 due to injury... then boys/booze/etc. happened and I didn't start again until I was 28 - then very quickly decided to buy my own. The smell is the BEST! As for "getting on" - well, I certainly bounced on with a lot more zizz when I was a teen - but it's "better for their backs" to use a mounting block. It's also amazing how easy it is to drag yourself back in to the saddle if you're out on a hack and you have no choice... it's also a very good incentive to train your horse to handle gates/walk under police tape/tarpaulin so that you don't need to dismount.

I like dishwashers but tbh the dogs do a fantastic job of the really burned on stuff and jailbait does the rest.

Pah bikes are better than horses, I have a garage full of them to prove it! ;)

Why did I throw up this morning? who ordered that?? Am 15+1, I'm not supposed to still be feeling sick!! I'm going to lodge a complaint.

OK, so ski and I have been having a little talkie on t'other place and we reckon we all need to "bare all" (but cover it up).

Who's up for a "who has the biggest bump" competition?

On another note, ski mentioned about baby toiletries a few posts back. Parabens is always good to avoid for anyone, baby or adult. But for babies the worst thing is SLS (sodium laureth sulphate) and it's in anything which foams - shampoo, soap, bubble bath etc. Babies under about 3-4 months don't need anything other than just water to clean them. If you start to wean after that (although it's V early to do so) you may find that a bit of soap helps but then use SLS-free stuff. Babies of 3-4 months plus may appreciate a few bubbles in the bath for fun, so again look into SLS-free ones which don't create many bubbles, but enough for a baby.

Our stuff is SLS free of course (well I had to mention it!) but although it's technically suitable from birth I strongly recommend it's not used at all - ours or any other stuff. That also goes for baby lotion which is the most stupid idea on little babies unless there's a dry skin problem, in which case Johnson's scented stuff is The Worst.

Also avoid talc - it's now thought to get into the windpipe and be bad news.

Talc is one of those fucking horrid things which is thought to be linked to problems with the cervix and wimmin's troubles. In fact the whole fucking beauty industry emotionally blackmailing women in to buying "pink products" with absolutely no fucking irony that their products are very likely causing this epidemic in breast cancer makes me want to thkweam and thkweam until I'm thick!

Cossie You don't need to beg someone to take your bike out for a spin do you? I see the sense there...

talc= handprints on black trousers. never good.

I'll have a good crack at the bump contest - I look huge today. Colleague who's only a few days behind is much smaller....

watch this space for a profile pic (when I suss it all out)

rots and I thought we might put them in the other place so they're more private... I'm not sure I'm ready to show my bump to all my fb people.

this is true Ski. Although all my bikes are looking very reproachfully at me whenever i go in the garage. Not so much my Juliana as she got a run out on Friday, but the other two are well stroppy.

I haz no bump yet, just a spare tyre.

ski my preference is to put it here, with head chopped off, because I don't want FB people seeing it AT ALL! And because this way the newer PESHes can join in. Mine's going on my MN profile in a mo. Fat cah!

honeymoo Jill's Gymkhana is my favourite book... still!

ski Remember why you're not doing ODE this year? It's all part of the plan we conconcted in the palace. If you hadn't been so excited and gung-ho about gettinig into ODE you wouldn't have ended up diffed, so you just have to go along and think 'Pah! I could be doing this but I've got something much better going on just for now.'

Er... isn't cheggs going to win the bump competition? I don't think it'll be much contest. (And you're not seeeing a photo of mine anyway as it currently looks like a gang leader's moll's tummy due to knife stab wound appearance of appedecectomy scars under expanding belly conditions.)

Good idea Gasper - plus it means our more anonymouse PESHes can see.

Cossie 3 bikes for one botty? I haz 2 saddles for one hoss I suppose.

Oh, my bump is fully covered in the pics I shall shortly upload. Just taken them in office, so hardly going to get nekkid!

pony Yep, you're right. Our Palace plan to get my diffed did indeed work... oh and my ski girls start their special clinic today in Tahoe. What do I get? Jeans that won't do up and a Burger King onion-ring addiction.

We really hope cheggers is going to win the "biggest bump" competition - if she doesn't there will be some red faces...

mmmmm onion rings....

Pic done. laugh away!

p.s anyone else joining me with 20-week scans this week?

OOoh nice pic and very glam! No denying you're a differ though...

Mine is Monday.

pony I fully intended to only allow my clothed bump to be seen. After all, I'm still sporting my "extreme ironing" scar which I have come to the conclusion I'm never gonna get rid of and henceforth will have to embarass myself at every gynae/MW/scan appointment by explaining that it's NOT some random operation and it WAS me being careless when ironing naked .

Good idea cas re using MN photos. No idea how to though.

cas your pic is about the same size as mine I reckon. I'll get ot photographed and put up soon as someone tells me how.

I realised last night that if I stand up straight and look down I now can't see my toes.

snap rots, I think mine feels bigger than it is because it's all I see when I look down now.

Go to MyMumsnet, enter your email address and password (not your nickname). Make your profile public and click on the photos tab. Upload to there, save, make sure its "public" and voila, we all get a nosy!

please to note my not so glam old-lady swollen knuckles....

me again help!

gasp my anomaly scan is not till 16th March

dunno about sharing bump pic...

Boooooo iggy ref appointment. Go on, get it out!

Oh, a clothed photo! Durr.
But now I need to think of another excuse or you'll all see how big my bum is (not pg related, just lardy).

grasper D'you mean the sort of thing I ignore in the John Lewis catalogue cos I'm not glamorous enough for it?