The PESH Deli - where black-humoured diffed BESHes turn to hormonal mush.

[CurlyCasper]

If you don't like the title, tough. I'm still talking

BESH BABYWIN STATS

This isn?t a fucking list ? right?

BESH BAYBEES
dontrythisathome, Bay Amaryllis born March 25.
Cheggers, twinz girlz, born April 12

UPDIFFED
Ponymum, the one with the worst hips, due mid June
CUNextTuesday, takes no shit from the Daily Mail, due June 28
IggyPiggy, The one who loves BUMSEX, due July 20
CurlyCasper, the ginger with the dodgy joints due July 21 (girl)
Skihorse, cradle snatching web geek, due July 22 (boy)
Carrots, organic hippy hunter, due July 25 (boy)
Cosmosis, the one that likes a good ride, due August 22
Pandora, She's got wings, due September 6
skatergrrrl, the one that overtook the rest, September ??
VAG, lives in De Nile, due 19 September
Honeymoo, puppy lover, due November 1
silversky, the biggest farter, due 21 October (first baybee)
okiecokie, self-confessed control freak, due November 6
SomethingSuitablyWitty, benelux babe, due November
ReginaMonologue, must-get-the-goss-from-ski, due November 20

stinky??? that is only S word I can find I recently said!

I have mine on ipod - is good plan. Not silly - I thought same before starting class - is only making more sense now... but reading the book does help... Can see how the affirmations sound wank till you start kind of going with it..

Is good for PMA tho innit.

TG has just informed me he has bought tickets for us to see Skunk Anansie.

Me: Woo hoo!
TG: Yeah, at the O2 academy, brizzle, Nice venue!
Me: Oh that is great, when is it?
TG: 22 November. Ages away yet.
Me: Um.... Have you forgotten I will be 8 months duffed and size of small house with fat ankles, and therefore not really willing or able to stand in moshpit for a couple of hours getting thrashed by mentals?
TG: Er.... yes. Shall I see if Mark wants to go?
Me: Good plan

I had my affirmation printed off and stuck on fridge so I saw them daily.. fink it helped the PMA.

igballsoffire its cos of AT that we now feed raw. I must say that our dogs education still leaves a lot to be desired to be fair and recall can be optional! But its all good. If LAD was closer i would go to their weekly classes. No questions.

slivery I feed raw too

piggy the smell of tripe can be a killer i tell thee. Mutt loves it. Poo's are easier to pick up too and am big fan of banana and bio yoghurt to settle the dogs tum if need be. Works a treat and loads cheaper than a vet visit

yes - i had a comedy convo with our vet once when she tried to prescribe my dog a probiotic power for £25 quid.. so I said - can't I just use bio yog? And she said... um yes... it is the same... that was back in the puppy days when I was overly worried and took him to the vets for things I didn't need to...

cos/cas I find myself heading for Lancaster, but with some trips out Lakewards planned. Looks like we all may be sheltering in the same log-fired, real-aled pub at this rate if the weather doesn't hold out

this is my plan for this evening. Just the place to fuel up before a night's rest and the long drive to Granny's house

I shall wave as we pass Lancaster. Often my first pee stop, but somehow I think there will be a few more of those for this trip!

Hello peshes

Sorry have been a bit quiet of late. It's been a funny ole week and I am in a really odd mood today. Haven't had too much to tell you folks and no horsey tales to regale you with! ;) The dog has been waking up for last 3 days at 5am so in a right old fucking mood about that I can tell you.

Come home from work early today, feel overly emotional about fact my "team" apparently had dinner one of my direct reports house last night. He who was invited to our wedding and consider to be friendly with. I know I'm their boss (and as reasonably pointed out by Mr Moo) it would be different if they invited me. But I feel really hurt and upset by it for some stupid reason. Added to which had a 5 hour meeting, during which time my boss wouldn't let me get a word in edgeways and has taken his faves off on a jolly this afternoon (thinly disguised as research outing). It has just been such a waste of a day. Can't wait to get out of the fkg place in 4 months time, bastards. Overreacting maybe????!!

To continue my rant, I've been lurking on a health thread which was in most popular last night, basically reading several "members" of said thread bullying another poster who had dared to "invite herself" along to a RL meet up. They didn't think she was justified in going as hadn't been regularly posting and told her so in no uncertain terms. For some reason I find this absolutely inexplicable and outrageous. I'd like to think on our PESH thread so long as you drink gin obviously, you'd be welcome. Women can be such bitches sometimes and it goes against everything mumsnet is supposed to stand for - i.e. support and friendship for the mums that need it. Can you tell I don't take rejection well hmm??

On a totally separate non ranty topic can I also ask our veteran peshes - what did it look like when you first started to show? My pot belly beneath my belly button has really started to stick out more. Not in a changing shape, pregnancy bump way, but just really sticky out. When I eat my whole abdomen goes hard like there's no room. I guess things are beginning to grow considerably down there now.

Well I'm sure I've cheered you all up with my rays of sunshine. Sorry I haven't caught up on all your news. Hope everyone has a lovely BH weekend (in the fucking rain!!). xxx

All the feelings you describe are totally justified. Politics, veiled sexism, bitchiness... really not needed!

To answer your question, at the start I looked pot belly-ish fat. Fat, uncomfortable, and couldn't bear anything tight near my belly.

Fanks. Much better now.
Definitely feel FAT. But then again, I probably am!

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Tweet about this discussion? You must be 'aving a larf MN!

I must be very careful around the buttons that have appeared at the top of each post. Could you imagine the humiliation ff some of our chat accidentally ended up being attributed to our real names and to our RL friends

sorry you are feeling low honey

My bump started just as you and pony describe.

Yum doughnuts! I hadn't noticed the FB buttons!! JAYSUS is nothing sacred anymore? It's bad enough that you know who I really am when I go on about wind and other unpleasant things, to think that my colleagues and friends and family could read about my breastfeeding fears and the like is TERRIFYING!

Oh Polly! I would be gutted to miss a fun gig while DH went with someone else ... boo....

Cheer up honey, no work on Monday! People are wankers sometimes, you cant take it to heart. Read that bullying thread too, it was nasty!

Can I suggest that no one shares this thread on FB?

I like being able to have an anonymous rant, me.

Ditto. Social networking and mumsnet do not go hand in hand in my book.

I was very close to booking weekend tickets for Latitude in Suffolk but thought I would not handle the toilet queues (honestly) so it seems I will never again go to a festival pre mummy. Still tempted though...

I am cheering up now. Dog asleep on my feet on bed. Laptop on lap. Mint tea in hand. Husband singing crap upstairs. Curry later with friend not seen since wedding. Should be a nice evening. Cue M&D coming for grand DIY session this weekend, going to get baby's room painted. Does anyone have any paint recommendations?

Oh honey - what a bunch of bastards at work. I too have had work woes a couple of weeks ago and was so angry I wanted to quit - of course, take the maternity leave first. I've changed my schedule considerably so I'm now working a minimum of 2 days from home. But yes, it really hurt at work. I've been totally cock-blocked by some Belgian prick - and then I had to sit next to him in a meeting by the country director on wednesday. It's not even like at school when you can stab them in the leg with your compasses! You are more, more, more, MORE than welcome to come to Newcastle for the PESH meet but I think it's only going to be a few of us because only Cossie/carrots live up that way (Pony can't make it) and it's only because I'm taking the ferry over. The London girls would NOT ignore you - especially if you suggested a PESH + cake + dog meet! That thread on health sounds horrible - I've seen lots of bullying on mn - yet the minute it's mentioned on a thread - frequently the main perpetrators roll up and say "it's not true, it doesn't happen".

I too am horrified by the twitter/fb button - who in their right fucking minds? Mn is my dirty little secret - I don't want real people thinking I'm some Boden-obsessed, "in the name of the children", paedo-fearing, sex-avoiding lobotomised twat.

ski I think your last comment is so brilliantly quotable that I'm minded to post this thread to FB.

Sorry, but WTF? What is MNHQ thinking?!

doubt there was much thinking... I'm actually quite scared of those buttons now

M6 not fun. Been on the road for two hours and not made it far enough thanks to Bank holiday twats slowing everything down to 20mph and less. I'd bloody well make my dinner reservation. No one wants a hungry, hormonal pregnant woman on their hands

I is available for an up town meet. Just say when!

I cant see the fb things on my phone however i think i would have an absolute meltdown if the PESH threads went global to all my pals.

honeymoo soz you have had such a nasty day. Fing is tomorrow can only be better and its a long weekend! Top dollar!

My gut, sorry, jelly belly is odd. I dont look fat just thick. It seems to swell at night tho. We are not talking intelligence wise for once.

oh my lordy please do nobody facebook the fred!!

moo sounds like a crappy day at work, the gits.

Ok, I've just seen that fucking John Lewis advert for the first time. Full-on waterworks... just after booing my eyes out at 'How the Other Half Live' too. I look like a blotchy bug-eyed snot-infested skank. Waaah!

Hi all,

Bit offline at the mo. Still not got Landie fixed, argueing with insurance etc. Could be worse, all ok.

honey grr at your colleagues FYI I've been in maternity clothes since about 8-10 weeks (although 2nd baby) and was a bit miffed at the Bounty Book saying at 27 weeks that I may be just moving to mat clothes now!! Grrr.

cunty I'm a biker chick too . In the sense at least that I have a full license and have had for about 15 years, spent many years riding bikes only, didn't have a car, I don't have a bike now, although we looked into it recently for going to work. Does that mean we can have our own little clique? (Desperately trying to sound like a biker chick ).

iggs I read in G D-R about MS being "all in the mind" but felt how it was presented in the book was a bit patronising (well, a LOT) so didn't mention it to ski. But I was also trying to read on to really understand the background so I could pass on some proper info. So if you have a better understanding I'd really be interested.

I don't believe the MS is 100% psychosomatic - although no doubt about it - as I've said before, I am a pukey person and when I'm stressed/upset I vomit - it's just my way of ridding my body of negativity.

However, until I think you are misfortunate to experience this it's hard to identify with. E.g., in response to that DM article I posted yesterday some twat has responded with "It doesn't exist, my wife took B vit tablets daily and never suffered". I've also seen men write things like "my wife cycled 30 miles a day until she was 7 months, then ran a marathon and still had dinner on the table by 6pm". Each and every one of us experiences pregnancy differently. I will not (this time at least) understand pony's SPD, other's will not know or understand how Polly had it so "easy" with Boo and the birth/early post-partum.