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?

Mountie, it was just the other week - top of pg2 of Club BESHicana for the no holds barred account...

course it was salts can i have a motorboat on those then?

MTF when is your HSG? Are you REALLY thinking of canceling? I would still think it would be good to know the status of your tubes even if problem is with the Mr.Mountys fridge. Although understand your reticence

Now I've started menkuling again as I read on another thread that peeps have OVed as late as CD21 and still got diffed. I had completely written this month off cos I was away CD13-16 bit couldn't test a few of those days. I stopped OPKing at day 18 cos i thought I'd missed the boat but we had SFF on day 21 so now I am like ?????????? Bloody ridiculous as I have NO symptoms (I wouldnt even know what to look for) and I know I am just clutching at straws. Bloody MN!!! ARGGHHHH (present company excepted of course) Sorry mememememememe.

Right I'm off to watch Holmes.

Mountie, you know Salad is right, even if there's a problem with the fridge they won't treat that until they've checked your pipework. So got to grit your teeth I think.

Sorry am cluster posting now, but

1. just because there is probably something up with him doesn't mean there isn't with you, and
2. don't take my Hycosy experience as the norm - certainly Lolly thought HSG was absolutely fine.

Thank you lovely girls. But why do Germans not have to suffer??

Salty I loved Time Traveller's Wife and hated Lovely Bones, so what am I going to make of Fearful Symmetry? Glad it's distracting you.

Mountie cycles have been 26-28 days, but usually oving about CD18-20 to give 8/9 day LPs. I'm only on CD25 but oved CD15 which is earliest ever, and temps have been less random than usual. So it could be that either the agnus castus/B6 is working and my LP is sorting itself out, or possibly that it's just taken my body this long to sort itself out post-pill and is now behaving better. Or that droid will appear any moment and it's just weird early ov. Who knows....

Anyway, if I was to wait till droid is late to POAS it'd be Friday when I'll be at my parents, and then have visitors at the weekend and am impatient so if droid doesn't appear soon I'm concerned for my will power.... This is despite saying I'll never test early [hmmm]. Will probably be irrelevant as droid will arrive soon anyway.

Sorry, that was more than you all ever wanted to know about my cycles, I'll go back to my tax return

How are your sis and nephew doing?

Ok, had some time to sit down.

Salty I am so sorry for everything you are going through. But, like people here have pointed out, this is just random and NOT your fault. Anybody can make a baybee / have a problem making a baybee, and it is what you do with this gift (being able to make a baybee, not having the problem part) that counts. Yes, I know some of us are having problems, but will get there, and treat this gift with respect it deserves. Me thinks.

Arial I know what you mean. But am sure it will happen when you least expect .

Talking about gifts, me mom from across the pond is making things worse skreeching about the barbarity of it all. I guess I should just grit my teeth for 10 mins. Was it 10 mins LyriePoo? I read your account. Lovely. As scary as it was, I am glad to have BESHes tell it like it is. But I also know I should not focus on your experience alone, as other BESHs recounted more positive stories.

Ocer, it sounds like it's good news no matter what. But in my books, you are perfectly within sanity to test on Wednesday, aren't you? 'Cause that would be CD 28, no?

They're doing really well thanks. He may be allowed to go home before too long, though he's still fastened to lots of machines. They're a bit concerned about the whole bonding thing though, so they're trying to let her hold him as much as possible.

Tax return - bleurgh.

If I were you and if you can hold your horses, I'd save P-ingOAS until your family have gone. In case of either eventuality.

Excellent news on your nephew Arielautomatic. I'm sure they'll get there with the bonding, but I can't imagine how hard it must be looking at your newborn and not being able to hold him whenever you want.

Re. POASing, I'm not sure I have that much self control and so might be going with Mountie's suggestion. Although I'll be at my parents' by then, so it'd have to be Tuesday. But I'm convinced it's not going to be an issue. And longer LP is definitely a good thing whatever.

Looks like you've all gone to bed already, which is very sensible so I think I shall abandon the tax return (bleurgh indeed) and join you. Although not literally join you. Although that might be fun.....

You can join me . I am already a bad influence on you, it seems. (Oh no, Arial will spank me now, I know it. )

Oh you mean early P-ingOAS? Well if you insist. Bend over then...

Breaking news for MN eyes only ( not to be shared on FB): MummyIggy laid a baby girl yesterday (Sunday)!

I'll let her fill you in on any details on her return, but it was a long labour, baby is not huge as expected/feared, and iggy says she is "beautiful!". She's still trying to get round family/friends, so politely requests that we don't out her elsewhere, until it's been made official.

Copying and pasting this message across the ESH community.

Well done Iggs. Hope she's alright. Lovely news.

Aww a little girl piglet! Fantastic news. Will stalk PESHes for more details as and when. Thanks for letting us know Casp.

Mountie - yes, it was 10 mins max. Well, 10 mins after lying knickerless on the table for 40 mins because the consultant was late
(to be fair to her she was delivering a baybee).

Hurrahs and loves to Iggster and little *Igglina!"

MTF I pleetly understand why you'd consider cancelling - it's an intimidating prospect - but wouldn't it be good to get an MOT, as it were? It would be awful if you cancelled, and then a few months down the line discovered that you needed on after all, and had wasted time. But an enormous squeeze and three slices of chocolate-chestnut cake to you, old thing.

OxTailSoup testing on D28 is absolutely the right thing to do. G'waaaaaaan. You know it makes sense.

Aries, am v. glad about your wee nevvy. I hope they're able to spend a lot of time giving cuddles to get the bonding going again.

In other news: my droid approacheth. Swines! Never mind. Onward to next month. I am losing weight, and the GP said even losing 5% of your bodyweight helps with this biz, and I have calculated with a calculator that at this rate I will have done just that by next shagging time. I might even consider not getting wankered/smoking several packets of Silk Cut

In other other news, Sherlock was fucking brilliant.

Well done Iggy! Small girl Iggylet yay!

Sherlock was indeed fucking brilliant!

A year did I say? Ah ha ha ha surely not that would be insane surely, um. Yes that?s true. It never felt a right time to just jump in the conversation, and then the longer it went on the more I felt weird and stalkerish for not joining in, and you all seemed very clever and funny, and so on. Anyway, I?m here now, so just ignore all that strangeness. (Or I?ll kill you).

Salty ? I was still having crying fits well over a month after my miscarriage, and your hormones will be going crazy at the moment. I remember getting really upset when I had my first alcoholic drink after the m/c as it felt so wrong to be drinking. It?s still really early days so be kind to yourself.

Salad ?Your fertility clinic is in the bloody maternity wing? I can?t believe I?m reading that.

Cass ? (In nurse shouting at elderly patient style) Have you had your bowels open this morning dear?

Pollypoo ? hope the BBQ went ok, it was boiling here last night.

Twinks hope you are doing ok at the moment too.

Mountie ? now listen ? I was shitting my pants before my HSG. Take plenty of nurofen plus type equivalent. Get someone to drive you there and back. Try to relax. It?s not great but it was much better than I dreaded it would be. Would it help if I went through exactly what happened or would that just scare you even more? I went and had a pint of cider afterwards. That helped.

Views on Sherlock last night? I don?t like the bloke playing him ? no where near sexy/sneery enough. Oh, I see you liked him.

Hello Stinkie

morning stinkbomb I remember from my first m/c I was really up and down for ages, this one has an additional level of bleakness because i'm so much older, and feel as though my time is limited. Plus I'm still laying money on 'slippery womb syndrome' being an actual thing.

Bangers do you want to give stinky this apple?

Occy I think you will like it. Has more in common style wise with TTW

HeadMistress!!!!! . Gosh your tits look gert lush. Thanks for my apple. It will go nicely with my cider.

Hello all!

FairyNuff The HSG is horrible, but I promise it's not the kind of pain that requires a GA. (Also, it takes a loooooong time to recover from a general - ask Scorpetal - so I would imagine it's not shite healthcare, it's just a sensible approach) It's like a complicated smear, up until the point that the dye is injected. YOU WILL BE FINE. And better to get it over with than to let it worry you for the next few months.

Also - and this is probably dreadful advice - no one gave me a leaflet saying that I would have mutant babies if we SWI'd after the HSG, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

EdieSedgwick The droid approacheth? For sure? Has the rust begun?

NO ONE is to spoil Sherlock for me, pliz? I was out last night and have recorded it for my viewing pleasure.

Yar Drom, beginnings of the rust, and aches, and comedy boobs. Tant pis.

I'm deeply jealous that you get to watch Sherlock first time so to speak. It was so good (I should point out I have been obsessed with Holmes since I was about 9, and have read all the stories three or four times I was laughing with joy and high-fiving the OM. Erm, I possibly need to get out more.

Thanks for the apple Salt'n'Shake. I was wondering how you're feeling this morning. I'm sorry your spirits are low and I hope you don't spend too long in the pit: BESHly experience teaches that baybees are tenacious little buggers whatever slipperiness/ishoos we all might be having. I maintain the MSDP is going to gather pace.

Note to self: put clean bra on when StinkBomb's in the hizzouse

GOSHDARNIT! Parenthetical cock-up! Pliz to close bracket after blush-face. Cannot have that on my record nossiree.