30s TTC: Summertime, and the diffin's easy. White goods are jumping and the WOOFLing is high. MSDP in full swing.

[MountTheFairy]

The one before the BESHory Towers. Easy one for summer: I have dug up a fishing pond in the middle of the Palace, put a roof light over it, got some fishin' sticks and put some Gershwin on. Salad's providing Elderflower Fizz, served by newbs in topless bikinis. Could life be better?

Quote from the OM: "This water DOES taste funny. Now no getting silly like last time: you've got another baby to sort out first*".

Bloody men being bloody sane.

As y'all were!

*Stupid book.

Get your chops around that, moi luvver.

HB , I am assuming 2WOOFling is a variant on two week waiting? If so, me too but I am somewhat behind you. And no comedy buzzwams here, boo. I shall just admire yours instead

Ah, a menkulism-pal! What DPO you at Saffy? And how long's the Saffular cycle normally?

Hello Saffron, nice to meet you. It stands for Two Weeks of Obsessive Fucking Lunacy. As coined (I think) by the luffly Ginsters.

TG is like that too HB - ever practical. And so fucking annoying with it....

I really am going now. Laterz bitches.

blimey pollypants you are truly MAZIN as they say here. cut yourself a break and cross hoovering off the list. No one is going to be looking at the floor what with the stunning spread and your shiny hair do plus its only going to need doing again after everyone has left.

Scorps if you can hear this from between pollys baps, think everyone knows it is just cos you care muchly. I've been here 5 minutes and i can see that.

casspot and HB with the comedy symptom spotting ITT I cant be arsed with 2WOOFLing as it would have to be a miracle for me to be diffed looking at my chart. Humph.

With you on the Holmes thing, trailer looks very tempting. Will be tuning in tonight.

Errr...I think day 16 of (normally) 28. And the POAS thingy said Thurs was so that would now be mebbe 1, 2 DPO? In all honesty I have no idea as is first proper cycle post-MC and frankly anything could be going on down there and I am shit at counting.

Greetings Pollypootle and thank you kindly for the explanation.

Which reminds me, if I ever get to make castle cakes for miniBuns they will totally have working military defences on them. That would rock.

Hm YellowBunny, 'kay, well, then let's make a pact to discard the menkul and be at calm and at peace, because menkulling is not good for the soul, especially just post-MC .

How about I bring a fur rug yoga mat and you bring a bottle of Tanqueray CD of whale music and we'll spend the week chillaxin'

Aah, don't worry about it Scropulous. Dinna fash as I believe they say in Scotland. I insult people all the time and don't actually have any excuse apart from being very rude blunt.

Comedy buzzwams you say, Headcase. Hmmm. Wouldn't it be completely lush if you and me and Cass won seeing as we're WOOFling? Though mine are starting to twinge in a very droidal way. I've always maintained it's deeply unfair to have such bosomage pain when there's not much there to pain.

Good luck this afternoon Polster. You are Nigella remember. No that's wrong - you're much better

And Saffy I think that's the best ever comedy violence I've ever read. Have a gin on me.

Are you familiar then with medieval weaponry and warfare? I did modules on it you know

mmm, spun sugar catapults throwing coffee revels, battering rams made from twix* and hot molten caramel pots to pour from the battlements.

perhaps that last ones not to child freindly...

*plural of twix? twixes? or just twix? :S

I just really like trebuchets, what can I say?

Approve of the no-menkulling HB as I have had quite enough of that over the last few months but I may use the trebuchet on the whale music CD as well if that's okay.

Bad news on the gin front - I checked out the local crop of sloes (obv. for creating the sloe gin of loveliness) yesterday and it appears to be shit this year probably due to late frosts and now droughts. This is a disaster. Last year I bought about 10 litres of rough gin from Tesco and make it all into sloe gin, it was ace. Although I did get some funny looks checking out with 10L of rough gin and nowt else in my trolley.

Twii. Or maybe not.

Flaming moat of ignited sambuca.

Aah yes, last year was a classic sloe year . Speaking as a lass whose dad had her pricking millions of the damn things every year for his yearly production line, I concur.

I will never get diffed. Never. I have a feeling today. I'm not being self pitying or anything, I just have a very flat, hopeless feeling. Father is full of little grandson news, and while it's lovely for him, I want to ask him to stop. I am premenstrual again.

Aries chick, none of that (hypocrite emoticon: I despair too sometimes on VERY little provocation!). Only consider the evidence. We've had some amazing diffs, after many many cycles, and rotten results, and whatnot.

That being said proud grandfathers must be a right pain in the hole at the mo. My sympathies.

I am now going to see what a sloe looks like & go forage. Am planning batch of ginger wine but it's far too early in the year for such warming treats!

I have 2 very heavily laden damson trees and am planning on making damson gin this year which i hear is v similar to sloe is it not? Perhaps I will have to do a BESH tour of the UK dishing out bottles to everyone.

Aries tush now, chin up, it WILL happen. I do know how you feel tho as one of my friends is about to drop and i am supposed to be crocheting a 'Where the wild things' are style hat and booties for the lil fella. Cant really bring myself to start...

saff loving the moat, this is definitely NOT a cake for children (nope its all MINE)

hello BESHies

Hope everyone's ok yoday. Aries dear, would you like to join me in The Pit? I've got some cold chinese take away and a freshly washed blanket for our knees?

Arrgh agagagagagag GAH.

BESHies I need your help here. I just went to Tesco and as I went in there was a blatantly diffed lady with 2 small children. She was smoking a fag and screaming at the 2 children. SMOKING a fag. Now, this made me cry, literally so I had to go back to my car. Quite apart from the unfairness of someone who can't even be arsed giving up smoking for a few months in order to grow a baybee being so fucking fertile it made me realise how incompetent my body clearly is, and how unlikely I am to ever have a successful pregnancy.

Once I'd stopped weeping I went into shop and bought large piece of dolcelatte, a french stick and a copy of 'Her Fearful Symmetry'

salty and aries horrible day.

After I got the IVF diagnosis, I remember wandering around the town I work in feeling like I was surrounded by people who didn't deserve babies. I really get it. The problem is, feeling like that becomes totally toxic and self-destructive because you start to believe it's your fault that you're not winning your baby. And it's not. It's unfair and shit and random.

Her Fearful Symmetry is odd. Will be interested to know what you think.

ohhh salty thats harsh, i would find that so hard and i haven't been thru what you have. Perhaps i am lucky to never have had even a sniff of diffment after all. Tbh you've been doing really well so something like that was bound to happen eventually, just let it out and then try and move onwards and upwards. its not your fault, its not your body, its just crappy life, but there is always always hope. (same to you aries) There is also always cheese.

What is Her Fearful Symmetry?

I hate it when I see things like that. I'm afraid I do get my judgey pants out.

Salty my poor duck. What a crock of shit. You've had so much to cope with and you're doing brilliantly, just remember that. I'd love to join you in the Pit, as long as we can watch films and abuse Mitchell.

Honestly I wasn't saying the above to get sympathy or nuffink - I have had nothing to cope with compared to many, but I just have that feeling today, you know? I want cake (lots), wine (ditto) and comedic violence

Her Fearful Symettry is a book byt the auther of The Time Traveller's Wife saladdays tbh. cheese and wine are the only things getting me through this.

I can't bring myself to get rid of my yellow maternity notes file...how pathetic is that? It's like I am in some way hoping that if I hang on to them BOC will pop back in shouting 'Only kidding, I'm back'

I'm imaging your judgey pants to be good sensible gym knickers Musilicious am I right?

There i can help. A piano just fell on your head aries and i just walked through a plate glass window (going old school)