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.

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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.

but rierie difference is they are athletes and used to it, whereas i am not (i know you will all be shocked to hear this)

stew hows the pukiness?

Ok fair enough. I still go with what Cassiopeia says though, that you'd need to do some remarkably strenuous exercise. Though I of course am not a medical practitioner.

Literatti out there: Does one capitalise First / Second World War?

Yes. I'm not a Literati but I am a historian :)

Quite clearly I am not a fucking Literatti

right then thats 2 against so I will cross that off the menkul list (yeah right) :o

He, he historian is just as good for this particular purpose! Cheers. I am sure we'll both be spanked by our head girls in the BESHory Towers, Liquid.

Yeah, I think 'tis good not to menkul Wheatgrass.

TH has just declared that I'm hormonal . Apparently I demand more affection when I'm hormonal, but as he can't decide when in the month this happens I think it's just his explanation for my behaviour. However all such comments nowadays come with a maybe you're diffed kind of a look. I don't think he ever realised it might take this long.

He went and bought skis last weekend and when I enquired as to why he'd not got me any, he reckoned it was because if I've got a bump I won't want to ski. Which is true, but made me sad because who knows whether I will. (There's far better reasons than that for not buying me skis, but that was his stated logic).

As for the exercise thing, I'm struggling to see how it could do any harm, and surely exercise = fitter mum = better for baby. Not that this is inducing me to do any, playing on the Wii fit aside.

Two literati, one literatus

(Er, I think)

I am forcing the OM to watch What Lies Beneath on the tellybox. I am bribing with a Bloody Mary...

I haven't done any exercise at all for about a month I think, and am fairly certain it's not doing my odds of diffage any good, never mind my suetty bee-hind . MUST. PULL. SOCKS. UP.

Oh Occy :(:(. Husbands can be such dumbfucks can't they? I feel your pain regarding the skiing. My sis skied while pregnant which personally I thought was stupid. But crucially, if it was me I wouldn't want anyone else to ski either. I must be pregnant by this winter or I shall be forced to go skiing en masse with the in laws. I can't face that.

What Lies Beneath is v good and v creepy.

I have no intention of skiing when diffed, seems madness. But then I'm not very good at skiing. If such a miracle occurs and I do get pregnant, we won't be going away skiing but TH will be up on the Scottish hills whenever possible as usual. That's OK if it's timed for when I'm working, especially as Scottish skiing tends to be in less than ideal conditions (we managed 40mph winds one day we were up last season which was no fun at all).

Skiing with in laws sounds like hard work. BIL usually skis with us and does insane stuff, he's one of these people who tends to assume his skill level will keep up with his confidence. I couldn't cope with the all en masse though.

My brother was nearly called St John (has normal name, don't worry) and my friend's teenage son is a Montgomery!

Salad, I wouldn't go on the nonsense I spew from my fevered, neurotic mind. If exercise could knock a BOC loose, how come there's so many horseygals in the PESH deli (and indeed in the FESH graduation lounge). And dear Cosmosis is/was ridiculously sportif and is about to ensprogulate any day now. Is just a really anxious idea an old book put in my head that, unfortunately, can't seem to be knocked out by anything (see the analogy I made there?).

Masterchef final in the Bomb household (chosen by the boy rather oddly) I can't watch Harrison Ford play a anything but an action role or it ruins all my Han Solo fantasies :o

Occie :( That sucks and you dont need that extra pressure really. Ever feel like EVERYTHING is on hold? Never thought of it this way, but I spose TBs reluctance at least means one of us is happy when droid arrives each month. UnBESHly hug, I have packed the boy off with a bunch of lads this year and will be selling my board, bad back with diffment plans plus being a bit crap at it has finally convinced me i should give up. Shame as i love the environment (and the apres)

The Scottish resorts had an insanely good season last winter didn't they? I'm very envious! The reason I dread skiing with the in laws is because they insist on doing everything together, all day every day and they get offended if someone wants to go off on their own. I'm not boasting, but I'm quite a good skier and when I go, I want to SKI not sit around in mountain restaurants adoring toddlers who are skiing for the first time and being hilariously cute. If I'm diffed they'll expect me to go anyway, because I can sit in cafes and enjoy myself that way (it's a big anniversary for them), and also of course, babysit the aforementioned children. Sis skied whilst pregnant and I always thought it was very selfish on we who went with her, because no matter how good you are yourself, you can't control the other idiots, and if something had happened (and it did - she had a bleed), it would be everyone else's holiday also ruined. And if I'm not diffed, I'll be completely mizz by then, and we haven't had a holiday on our own for seven years.

Am I just being selfish. What do you think, Oxters?

Oh oh oh, warning: pliz not to reveal Masterchef winner as the OM & I are watching on iPlayer and are 11 episodes behind!

God, sorry for going on and on. Really sorry.

Ps: I have never been skiing, because I am working class.

I second HB, but you should go on Rie that's what we are here for, and I know you don't want to hear this, but I kinda envy your FIL. Though agree on the selfish SIL.

How eloquent of me.

Well I work fucking hard for my money and we go skiing in the winter when everyone else has holidays in the summer. So there.

Ramgirl that doesn't sound selfish at all to want a holiday you'll enjoy, and preferably a holiday just the 2 of you. Holidaying with my ILs is something I would avoid at all costs so I admire you for doing it at all.

And just because SIL decided to ski when pregnant doesn't mean you have to do the same, and it's a very expensive way of sitting in mountain restaurants if that's all you get to do. Far cheaper to go back in summer (not that that solves the problem).

Aries did you think that was some kinda dig ? It troofully wasn't - I tease. I always say I'm working class owing to a) having never been skiing, and b) if I need a new kettle I go to Argos and not John Lewis .

As to your question, no, is not selfish.

Sorry . Bit prickly tonight. I'm going now

It was my sister though not my SIL . She of poorly baby fame.

Really am going now.