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?

scorps they sound so cool, wish we could see photo!!!!!

Well what am i supposed to cover it up with hey?

Underwear, you say? Is that some sort of newfangled invention> p'raps it hasn't reached T'west country yet....

salty when I can be arsed, or just before I go on holiday, I get waxed. But most of the time, I can't (but I do swim 2-3 times a week and feel that I should (sorry scorps wish I had the strong foundation you have!!!)

Squishy, there will be no photo, not now, not ever. They look like trousers made for a 30-stone woman, not a normal size bird with a spot of upper thigh chub

EXCITING NEWS! Again, not that. Me and TYF will be taking our Grand Tour of the provinces at the end of September, so you may now commence your preparations for the celebrations. We are just debating to go wk beginning Mon 20th, as I will Ov sometime around the 26th (guesstimate) or just go the week after, on the basis that if we're doing lots of travelling, doing lots of stuff, seeing lots of people (and by this I mean BESHies, yay!) and sleeping in strange beds, it might actually be off-putting in the bedroom department, instead of being all zexy and erotic and relaxing, blahblah. And of course, I might be pg by then OR if my cycles lengthen, I might be Oving in the last week after all.

Shamefully, my first comment on the dates was 'but that doesn't leave me enough time to lose lots of weight for when I meet the BESHes! Can't we just go in November?' but then TYF pointed out it's meant to be our Summer holiday...

Eep! Score, do the 'Provinces' include The Capital of The World aka. London?

scorps you know how to spoil a girl's fun - was imagining you prancing about and waving your arms in your air shouting "stop - hammer time!"

Oh, I can do the MC Hammer Dance. Or at least used to be able to. Many, many years ago, when I was foolishly doing community theatre, as part of my bloody course I had to do it as a MC Rama dance in a modernised version of the Mahabharata. Ganesha wept.

I wish that was made up but it is sadly all too true

HB, first stop will be That London. And of course, we'll be bringing our bizzle to Brizzle, fo' shizzle

ROFL at Ganesha weeping - not surprised from the way you describe it!

OK, off to GP soon about duff ovaries/not/general lack of diffment - what questions shall I ask?!?!?!?

I think you should ask "When will I win a baybee?"

Sorry squishedbanana I don't know...g'luck though doll

LOL, thanks salty, will try that one!!!

Oh good luck squish! I was very lucky with my GP and went for full MOT pretty quick after cyclical weirdness/spotting/suspected unsticky BOC - has been useful in simultaneously confuzzling and reassuring me about lack of win (ie, all appears well thus far, and therefore why no diffage my good man, eh?).

Squishy just said 'ROFL' and 'LOL'. Where does she think she is, eh?

Glad you said it Lyra'sDaemonSmellsOfWee. I've earned myself enough hilarity and censure today without adding 'gimlet-eyed pedant' to the list

Squishy, stop it. That is all.

what does ROFL even mean?

Rolling On Floor Laughing < at interweb speak knowledge> will not be Laughing Out Loud again in here after strict telling off from Headmistress (ohh, on second thoughts.....)

LOL, OMGBBQWTF?

Can't keep up! Trying to design a questionnaire for my dissertation, and I left it all pretty late and AAAGGGHHH.

But nice having you chatter in the background.

The Bridge, Iain Banks. Well good innit.

Right these are kids' books. Don't judge me. The Mortal Engines quartet by Philip Reeve are almost the best books ever. Better than Dickens. Better than Austen. Better than Bronte (all three of them). Better than everyone. Almost.

Ah, it's nice and busy on here, as befits a Friday afternoon.

Thanks all for your encouragement. I do know lightning won't necc strike again, I'm hoping it doesn't and if it does, I will act sooner - last time I just put up with it thinking that was how sick everyone got but it got so bad I honestly couldn't even stand or drink water without puking and I honestly couldn't remember the last time I'd kept food down. And yes, as head points out, last time I was trying not to snack because I didn't want to put on silly weight. And I was in a really stressful job with long hours. So this time the plan is eat little and often (specialist kaftan catalogues here I come), sleep at lunch when minionepot does and, if it does strike again, get to the doctor so that the tablets work before I get to the IV stage of last time.

If it is in fact real at ALL, that is. Which we are still not speaking of .

Did another test this morning, line still faint but definite. Not due on till tomorrow though so hopefully if it is a ministewdumpling it will hang on in there.

I'm off to the Isle of Wight in an hour for the weekend, on a college thing. So not here all weekend, back late Sun night. And then evil men are taking my laptop away for repair on Monday (sob!) so I don't know how much access I'll have to here next week; I can get my emails and FB fine on my phone but struggle to get this thread for some reason. Hopefully can use MrStew's work laptop in the evenings but if I'm quiet, that's why.

Oh! My referral to the FC arrived today! We shall see....

So. Gotta pack. Food mostly. And think of reasons why will not be boozing. Bitch slaps, dead legs and a slip of the tongue to all of you. Love you all with a bitter twisty BESH-style love. Pliz to have lovely weekends that are slightly tainted by missing me dreadfully but lovely nonetheless.

bishbashbesh

Aries! The first Mortal Engines has my favourite first line of any novel ever (apart from I Capture the Castle):

'It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.'

Amaze.

NB LOL is very bad. But I think ROFL has a nice onomatopoeic quality to it - I always think of it as a Brian Blessed laugh.

OMFG!!!1!11!1!111!1

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink....!

I thought only I knew that was The Greatest Opening Ever

That Mortal Engines biz does sound TRULY amaze though Aries. Shall add to already preposterous list of Books Every Educated Person Should Have Read And Is A Twat If Hasn't.

I can recommend The Incredible Book-Eating Boy (pop-up edition), Mr Big, The Bog Baby and...ummm... The Snail and The Whale.

They have lovely pictures too

Seriously. You should all own the first one, it is a thing of beauty.

lyra sorry my lovely. No violence for you, just kittens and gin.

This has become a very literary thread today.

I am happy.

If anyone feels like adding to it with some books that are Rome-appropriate? I likes to read books set in the city I'm visiting, and we're off there in a couple of weeks.

Not just me then Drom . The last one is just perfect - when Tom and Hester die together and the tree grows between them and Shrike sits and guards them for many thousands of years and is eventually woken up by a child and the world has healed itself....WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

Have you read Fever Crumb, also by Reeve? Stupid name, brilliant read.

Head, read them. Immediately.

Have v bad droidal pain. And a v v v bad head, which I'm trying to eat away with complex carbohydrates and am snacking on painkillers. Life sux today actually.