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.

VAG yes - can see how needles would help I think we have a whole box of them from aforementioned great aunts, at my parents place in the attic... Maybe can dig them out as then have all the sizes etc...

ok - will maybe get that book

I second Cos I had a glass of wine on Sun and it was lovely - but still haven't really been wanting wine often... and still can't do hot drinks at all

There is also a website called knittinghelp.com which has videos of how to knit different stitches etc - very helpful indeed!

I have been drinking a fair bit of Becks alcohol free beer, which is surprisingly ok actually.

I was most upset when I went off coffee. We only drink decaff anyway so I wasn't bothered about the caffiene just like my coffee. Was v relived when I could stomach it again.

Am loving the knitting club theme emerging here. Have just gone off and bought that book VAG and am envisaging cosy evenings of baby blanket knitting over the next 8 months. More likely, I won't open it and will get bored after half an hour. I remember learning at school but wasn't very good and used to take it home to get my german au pair to do it for me.

On the wine front, did you wait until 12 weeks until you caved in generally? I'm being such a boring old cow until that point.

I've only been back on the coffee a number of weeks, in fact it was only 3 weeks ago that my coffee machine came back out of the cupboard where it had been put away before xmas. rots I fully intend to order a mojito in Newcastle just to garner one of those looks. I'm not even a drinker but I'd like to order it to piss people off. I'll chase it down with a fag & some stilton of course. Before galloping off on my mighty steed for some fox-hunting.

cunty I'll have you know that my trumps are repulsive. I'm glad you're having a lovely time and I can't believe you, YOU of all people are getting gooey about baybee-shiz.

jailbait is just back from Boots where he's been to collect the free baybee box. It haz a dummy, a bottle, a toy, a soft cloth (?), some lotions & potions and an energy drink for mum. Which I trust contains amphetamines. And nappies. Whilst I'm going to do washable I think it makes sense to have some disposables at the ready too.

honey I had a Baileys on boxing day just because I could - I was ~10.5 weeks. Those lot have been drinking like navvies all through and their baybees still appear to be fine.

I will do a tummy photo but I'm out late tonight so it'll be tomorrow night. I'm going to cut the head off and stick it on tinypic.com rather than here. Faaaar too many weirdos around these parts.

(I'm out at the pub tonight - this is a fact.)

I think I had a white wine spritzer and a gin an tonic with about a milimeter of gin in before 12 weeks. Oh and a mouthful of whisky.

Since 12 weeks I've had a glass of cava and said rioja above.

I have not had any alcohol tho am still drinking coffee. Sticking to 2 cups a day. Tho of late can only stomach one and, at work to disguise am off the stuff have been drinking hot water. Ooooh get me. Once a wild child, always a wild child.

Anyone else out there hate their job?

Silver Currently yes. I am on a project from hell. My PM is a prick from Leuven (Switty will get this) who is in his 50s but dresses as though his mum bought him all his clothes from Inno + complete with Burberry scarf - you'll see 25 of these types on the metro going home tonight. On friday night at the stables I found out that the go-live of the project has been pushed back to 1st July (from 1st April). Whilst more realistic I shouldn't have to hear this stuff via gossip at the stables - my project manager should've told me right? Come 1st July I will be sat on the balcony with my feet up so I don't care anymore.

On the plus side my only responsibility towards this project right now is dragging myself away from the internet long enough to proof-read a document and upload it somewhere online. I have just had a chat with my boss about me moving to a company in The Hague after maternity which I'd love.

I love my job but I hate this particular project.

Silver, I love my job but am suffering a severe case of cant' really be arsed at the moment.

I love my job too but its proving a bit of a mare just now, hard to be working with small groups of lovely dancers when have to keep nipping off to throw up. they are v understanding but feel like a bit of a pillock tbh.

re the booze - i am still avoiding and frankly can't see me ever wanting to drink again, caught wiff of blokes glass of lovely red and it turned stomach (theme emerging here)

loooove the knitting idea. i used to do it but have totally forgotten how, youze haz inspired me to dig oot the needles again.....

Hey slaaaaags

I have had 2 glasses of wine since knowing I was upduffed, one on my wedding anniversary and one at a funeral.

However I had tons of booze in the 2 months before I knew, mostly gin, and celebrated Christmas, NYE, a hen night & a wedding.

Oh and I heart my job. Whether they'll heart me when I tell them I'm orf remains to be seen.

I am going to get the knitting book been mentioning it to TGO for a while. I can knit, but haven't done for about a million years.

I told my grandmother I am pregnant 8 days ago and she has already crocheted me a blanket.

Grannies rock.

Woohoo! have lured you all into my knitting-cult! you must also join Ravelry so I can keep an eye on you all.

(For long-standing BESHes - I am friends with long-ago BESH SarahAbroad on Ravelry - she's still knitting though not updating her blog either, not sure what happened, and no great surge of baby-clothes in her knitting either)

Say hello to SarahAbroad from me!

re: booze - i haz not drunk for pretty much whole time of first 12 weeks - except NYE I had v. small glass of champagne - so I guess I was 11 + 2 then? Since then I haz had approx i glass wine per week - usually at the weekend.

I iz liking work at the mo...

gaah - just noticed handbag containing Bounty-folder of notes with "Pregnancy" emblazoned over it has been gaping open for all to see all afternoon. Now that's not very subtle, is it?

I drank a lot as usual before I found out. Then the week I found out, I made a G&T without thinking and half-drank it before having a silly moment. Once the nasty-taste-in-mouth kicked in I have simply not fancied any wine, except for two sips of red one night in an Italian. I'm not denying myself, I just don't fancy it. Am looking forward to getting my taste-buds back. I used to love coffee now I don't like the smell (very bitter and nasty) and last week I fancied a cappuccino as usual but I couldn't drink it. I'm not a big tea-drinker but I seem to have gone off that too - I use TSF's cuppa for dunking purposes.

My taste for chocolate went awol too but I ate through the pain and am happy to say I came out on the other side!

Actually have been more into savoury items. Don't always fancy sweet things at the moment. Apart from you lot [cheesy grin]

Coffee I went off totally, despite it being my drug beverage of choice, when preggars with LC and I never got back onto it. I can drink it now but it gives me a SEVERE caffeine rush (wahay!).

I'm drinking less than normal which was never much, as YOB is teetotal. I'll have the odd glass of white but then stop mostly because I get totally squiffy now my tolerance has dropped through the floor. I have no concerns about it affecting the baybee because all my research says that FAS is caused by heavy drinking, not the odd glass of wine, and furthermore there's research to say that the odd glass = relaxed mum = happier baby.

Mojito sounds good although I have no idea what's in it

I honestly think the going off alcohol, hot drinks etc must be the body saying nope, not good for me atm.

We were in a cafe when I was about 7 weeks and the guy next to me had a massive wodge of baked camembert. Heaven. Except I took one look at it and ran to the loo to vom I had baked cam about 2 weeks ago and it was lufferly.

Rum + fruit (lime) & veg (mint).

I have a severe aversion to garlic - I cannot bear the smell of it cooking, however it didn't stop me sticking my wedges in to jailbait's garlic dip on saturday. I've banned garlic from home cooking because to me it smells (right now) like the worst type of blocked drain. I spent days marching around the flat moaning about sewage.

Right, well I'm off to the pub as it's meal & quiz night. I've just had to take a fucking anti-morning sickness pill at 5:45 at nearly 20 weeks. As punishment to the baybee I may have a G&T. Toodlepip pissheads.