We're All Going To IBESHA: Last minute budget holiday fun for 30s TTC. Pack your string bikini and your oversized shades and get on board.

[Saladbomb]

Last call for flight SWI101 to Shagaluff. Sangria laced with folic acid on tape. Fake tanned Club reps will be dishing out the 2 for 1 cocktails, dressed in nothing but the most miniscule budgie smugglers. The pit will be manned by sleazy but virile Spanish waiters to provide your every need. Lets see the summer out in BESHley style, IE: starting a bar fight, drinking the place dry and falling over in a heap at the end of the night.

Ooh me too. Autumn is just luvverly and tres romantic. Those days when it's windy and rainy and we snuggle up on the sofa under a blanket with a warming bowl of homemade soup and pots of tea and watch old black and white movies. My kind of bliss. :)I just don't want it in August.....alright

Have woken up in a foul mood today...took me ages to get to sleep last night due to getting to think (for the millionth time) about how bloody unfair all of this is. It's seem even more so now as before although it was happening to me and Mr T I've always thought I wouldn't wish this heartache on anyone else. And I didn't know anyone else so that was ok. But now I feel like I do having joined in (and realising that Saladbomb is a friend) and after reading what you're all going through and how you're feeling it's made me very very and even more :( about the complete random unfairness of babyfail. :(:(:(

You make Autumn sound well...nice, HB. I am filled with unbearable melancholy when I see leaves start to turn and drift down. What we're having now is the first autumn storm and I'm very sad. Autumn and winter should last for three months and no more, in my opinion.

I had no idea you could have so much pain with a middle ear infection by the way. I had one once and felt dizzy and sick, and that's all, thank Baby Jesus and all his ickle angels. That's certainly a better and more harrowing tale than my pissing pure blood one See, I told you I was melancholy.

Here's a new poem. It's loosely based on Baldrick's "German Guns":
Rain, rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain.
RAIN, rain.
RAIN, rain.
Rain, Rain, Rain.

Punctuation fail too

cinco I meant to say that you were so poorly, but am in awe of everything you've done since. Sorry you've woken up with Teh Rage this morning - tis tiring. Take it from me....

head are you feeling better this morning? I LOVE Autumn too and you've just made it sound even lovlier.

I luff your poem Arial. It's a very moving and pithy work. You should send it to the Atlantic Review.

There was thread here recently where some poor woman was up at 3am with an ear infection, and lots of people had posted underneath saying they'd rather go through labour twice than have that again. Mind you, pain is so subjective isn't it? Their respective labours were probably a polite sneeze and a change of knickers, and nothing more!

Ps I like unbearable melancholy. I think that's why I mildly disapprove of summer. All that hilarity, and lying about lazily in parks in skimpy clothes, and fannying about with frisbees. Shows a distinct moral turpitude, in my view...

No one will lash you for your punctuation. Cinco. And if they do, I shall beat them up. Ok?

Much better thanks LaurieLoo. I didn't really have cause for misery, it's just when the OM is on a night shift it's sometimes difficult to put out of my head all the ghastly things that could happen (They didn't, and he is sleeping like a babe).

Ah Bangers that is beautiful. Autumn always feels a melancholy time of year to me - but that's probably because I live in a cave like house which is as dark as a rabbit burrow inside. Now please can I see your impressive FF's?

Sorry everyone is feeling rubbish - a skipful of formaldehyde preserved porpoise intestines is being gently lowered into the pit as I speak. I'll join you on the headache front - I was off work yesterday due to vomitous migraine. Oh and I found out that my SIL is diffed (first month trying - gnashes teeth) so I can share in poor Ariel's pain.

Hope the drucks work Cass - I got some but can't remember the name. I think they helped anyway. Hope you are getting as much sleep as you can (difficult with Ministew I know), sleep definitely helps.

TwinkleTwinkleYou'reAStar thinking of you today lovely. I hope you and Mr Twinks can do something nice for yourselves tonight.

Crossposts - what a moving poem aries I think you have really captured the whole breadth of emotions and experiences of England and it's many changing seasons and weather.

Cinco please don't be sad. My heart feels so hurty when I read about you being awake and thinking those thoughts. You're not alone, you have a whole big (and very attractive) cheerleading team holding you up and wanting it to work out. Don't underestimate the effects of the horrible hormones on you either. Have a big piece of blackberry and apple crumble with custard and a squeeze.

Bloody hell, we're going to need a bigger pit :( Sorry to hear you lot feel so crappy.

I have just made far too many blueberry pancakes with maple syrup, maybe that would bring cheeringness? I reckon they would probably frisbee all the way to you lot if I loaded them into one of those clay pigeon tossing machines.

Cass :( for all the barfing, that is so horrible - I believe that you are legally entitled to punch anyone who suggest eating ginger, by the way.

Autumn is muchos depressing and before long I will have to get the daylight lamp thingy out to stop myself sinking into mire of gloom. Or move to Spain.

In case the pancakes don't do the trick, I've also hired a troupe of go-go dancers complete with frilly knickers and feather headdresses to entertain the Pit audience.

Cheers aries dearie - nice to know I can call on you for some protection as may need it as I never learnt grammar at school, don't think they ever taught us and so I don't really know if somethings wrong, it will just 'feel' wrong. And I certainly don't know what all the terms are. There you go I've just outed myself as an ignoramus too.

Wisdom tooth infection - there's a hurty pain. That ear one sounds terrible tho head, hope it never repeats itself, including childbirth.

Ta very muchly for :( over 'illness'. I'm not after sympathy though, just thought it helps to explain why I am where I am today as it's been a major influence. I swear one day I will stop saying 'when I was ill' as I'm sure it's getting boring. To be fair although I went to hell and back it was much worse for Mr T, my family and friends. Mr T still gets teary now if we talk about it as he thought he was going to lose me. Oh shit I'm filling up now thinking about it.....I'll just give you a few more details so you know and then shut up about it. It was as simple as getting pneumonia...but don't ever get sick over a weekend as the on call Drs are just shit. They didn't diagnose me depsite two visits to the emergency GP and so from starting to get ill on the Thursday and I didn't get any treatment until the Monday ....and even then the stupid Dr in A&E sent me home. So on the Tuesday my Dad called round and basically found me at deaths door, I was rushed in, in intensive care for a week, developed scepticemia, was a couple of inches away from both lungs filling up and game over. I know nothing about this period as I was out of it. But miraculously I survived.Spent 4 weeks in hospital, had to have an op on my lung due to secondary infection. It has given me an overwhelming fear of hospitals and a complete mistrust in medical staff (due to going absolutely mental on all the drugs I was on - seriously the hallucinations meant I thought they were trying to kill me, I called one of the nurses a 'fucking freak' apparently and everyone says he was absolutely wonderful and did over and above what he needed to) and that mistrust and fear is just fabulous now that I'm visiting hospital.. the same hospital.. on a regular basis Can you guess that if I do ever have a baby I would really like a home birth.

Sorry lovely BESHES for these long essays Think I've got verbal diarrhoea Don't think I've sorted this in my head yet and is over 3 years ago.

I promise from this post forward to stop being all about me.

. There's pneumonia and then there's pneumonia. Fucking hell. Your poor family. And poor you.

indeed. Mostly I think the NHS is a wonderful invention, but sometimes it just goes so wrong.

How are you this morning Cass? it all sounds very very horrid, hope you've got drugs that are helping and plenty of extra pairs of hands to help with ministew.

Is it scan day today Medee? Hope it goes well.

Cinco that made me cry a little, damn you . Now come over for a snuggle and a cup-cake.

Pliz to never apologise for writing essays on the BESHthread: that's why the dang thing exists. I still say that you are AMAZE for having taken all that and turned it to something brave and good. And I shall keep saying it until you get very bored of it.

I hope Twinks is OK. If you're reading, sausage, then lots of love fish-slaps to you. I hope you're going to use the day to be incredibly nice to yourself from the moment you wake to the moment you sleep

Oh yes BESHt of luck for scan today medee.

Hello, excuse double posting, but just back from scan - all well, baby having a good wriggle about, and due date of 12 March.

Thinking of all you BESHes.

Woooohooooo!!! Well done Meds!

WHOOOP! Well done Medium, and hello Small!

Yay for babymedee!

Twinkletwinklelittlestar candle is lit and thinking of you. Enjoy your long lunch.

casserole oh my word, all I can say is it sounds hideous and hope the vomming/nausea lets up soon :(

Right I must get my ass into gear - got the joys of jobcentreplus coming up. Here's a glass of red (special non vom inducing) for y'all - hope you have a better day :)

Yay MeLittleOne excellent news!

Absurd 2WOOFL moment alert: I literally cannot stop pissing. I need a wee every ten minutes. I've been trying to go for a long for the last half an hour but can't until I've stopped needing a wee or I'll get caught short! Given I'd be about 6DPO it's plainly something else, but honestly

long WALK...

Ooooh Head...what else do you have, hmmm? Any sore boobies? Dizziness?

Lovely news, Medee. How come you got an early scan? (Sorry if haven't been paying attention. I literally cannot keep a piece of information in my head for longer than...oops, what was I saying? concentration ran out mid sentence)

Yer, sore boobs. However, I get sore boobs always before the droid - once or twice so bad I couldn't lie on my front - which means boob-soreness is of all early differ symptoms the least reliable, where I'm concerned!

Cystitis on account of all the action you've been getting.

Do you realise we're quarter way through the thread already and it's only just started.