'The Frolickers Return' Come grab a place in the penthouse and join us for more antics as we sit back sip pornstars and trial hot off the press skincare products... all while we keeeeep shaggin!

[LankyLegs]

Settle down girls settle down as I hand you all a yummy pornstar cocktail complete with a sparkler and tacky umbrella. I take it we are all wearing our fabulous vintage 50's frocks, high heels and have our red lipstick on? Make yourself comfortable in the penthouse... the naked butlers are just heading in with grapes and truffles in trays...

All new first timers welcome - as long as suitable goodies and alcohol are dropped into the penthouse for all to share.

Oh and no AF around here - only FERTD.... Capishe??

Congratulations to Crazydays, Cherry, Crazybutterfly, Kurly, Roam and Steg!!! You must be all over the moon!!

Evil Congrats on finally getting ERTD, I know you've been waiting a while on that one.

Flick Did you test at one point, have I missed that one?

Hope everyone is well over these parts, here is a link to the new grads thread for those that want to come say hello!

Well I'm still at the tennis club. Played 2.5 hours this morning and have a league match at 3 so decided to hang around until that. I'm completely unfit at the moment so this could be painful tomorrow!

Hermya it is lovely to see you popping in

Toria I'm dreading how much we are going to spend on fitting out the kitchen and bathrooms when we get to that part of our project. At the moment neither DH or I cook at all bur we still want to have a kitchen with all the gear . All part of the plan to become domestic goddess!

afternoon frolickers - thanks v much for the congrats, and congrats too to crazydayz and also to evilg on the appearance of ERTD!

Wedding was good but exhausting - up at five and then whole day of events ending with dancing till one. I am shattered.

POAS'd when I got home as I am addicted just to check and it was clearly BFN. Second one had very very very faint line that appeared after the time had elapsed. I have no more wee left (sorry if TMI) for my final First Response (which gave me a BFP on Fri). Trying to be chilled out about it, according to pregnology am only 3 weeks 5 days in, so v v v v early days. Will try not to think about it and use the First Response tomorrow morning.

Sorry for self obsessed post, hope all had good weekends (and better than Colleen Rooney - toria I agree with you that, if its true, what a tosser Wayne is) hope to catch up properly soon

Hello Frolickers!

Evil that is great news about ERTD. My longest cycle was around 65 days so I can't imagine how frustrating it has been for you. Hopefully it'll all be back on track from now on

Bellaby well done you for such a lot of tennis action! Makes my potter with my hound seem very lazy ... Hope you won!

Florin excellent effort on the SWI-ing and glad to hear that Mr F is feeling better.

Toria I soooo hear you about the DIY cowboys. Same happened to us when we moved last year - it wasn't so much the dodgy shelves etc that was a problem (as Mr G is very handy round the house) but the dodgy electrics. Frightening!

Highheels oh you poor thing. I hate it when the room spins, you just know you're going to be in for trouble the following day. I hope you are feeling a bit better

Lanky how do you like your new hood? Mr G and I have almost finished doing our kitchen and it was just horrendous seeing how much everything was going to cost. My favourite was the boiler man - "well, I could fit you a boiler for £2k but it wouldn't last more than a year," Oh? A year? Hmmmm, let me think about that ... do I want a boiler that is going to pack up in twelve months? On balance, I think maybe let's investigate some other options shall we? Grrrrr

crazybutterfly I don't know if you've moved to the grads but if you're still reading, did you see the fab pull-out in the Times today about butterflies? It was awesome! Hope you are feeling OK and enjoying planning for your little butterfly

Bit of an odd weekend in the Garden household. 'Twas Mr G's birthday on Friday and we had a lovely dinner and dancing sesh at a jazz club nearby. Then we spent some time yesterday being hungover; and then had some people round last night too. It was mostly lovely but the last person to leave suddenly turned into a drunken monster around 1 and started laying into me for being controlling because I asked him not to smoke in the house. I almost posted an AIBU thread to see if most people expect to be able to light up in someone else's home ...

Mr G being very supportive and apparently this chap is well known for drunken awfulness. Bit shocked though as he was really insulting and horrid. Fortunately I wasn't drunk or he may have ended up with a large rolling pin up his @rse.

But on the up side, one of our friends is a consultant and I was talking to him about TTC (he brought it up first so I didn't feel too bad about talking to him about medical stuff out of hours) and he said it's totally normal to ov later than CD14 on clomid so that made me feel more relaxed about everything.

And, despite hangovers, we've been managing some SWI-ing. Fingers crossed!

Right, I'm going to the bar, any orders?

cherry sorry x-posts. don't fret - like you said it is very early on... please don't worry

Am sure your little cherry is all safe and sound xx

Thanks garden! very hard trying not to think about it but I guess it just is a time will tell type thing. And omg what a random and horrible end to your evening! Completely and utterly reasonable to ask guests not to smoke in your home - and frankly even if it wasn't, if you are a guest in someone's house and they ask you to do/ not to do something you either shut up and do it or make your polite excuses and leave! Sounds like a bit of an idiot. V glad doc friend was reassuring. Have you decided whether or not to book a second scan?

cherry try not to worry, it's very early and there's not a lot of hormones to be detected yet. I'm sure everything's fine.

And garden I am by the behaviour of your guest and in complete agreement with cherry. You are not being unreasonable at all. Glad you're feeling more relaxed now.

I've had one of those hangovers that seems to get worse as the day progresses, not better. Keep having brief moments when I feel alive and then back to the living dead. Now feeling guilty that I've wasted a precious weekend day feeling yuck. Still DP's sister and gorgeous nephew popped round for a bit this afternoon and it was lovely to watch DP play hide and seek with him in the garden. So cute. Did leave me wanting to scream "I want one, where's mine?" though. Will I ever be able to see other people's children without having that reaction?

Thanks cherry and highheels - good to know I'm not a total hag for asking someone to step outside to smoke. Thank the lord I was sober ish otherwise I would have been floored by his reaction.

cherry I think I might get a scan tomorrow or Tuesday (depending on when they can fit me in). It was so interesting talking to my friend - he said that Drs are a bit crap at explaining clomid things because they don't really know how it works.

Highheels booooo for the relapsing hangover. Must have been lovely seeing your DP with a little person. It will happen! It will, it will!!!

Oh, all these hangovers! My condolences to you all. Here, have a coffee

hello everyone :0) hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

I am waiting the arrival of ERTD, I have sore boobs but that is normal, oh and been very emotional! had huge row with DH today and not really seen him as he has been in the pub , as his answer is always to just walk out. All over him keeping me up last night with his snoring! God knows how he would cope with a baby!

Been watching midwife progs for hours this afternoon, sounds bit obsessive but I have always had an interest in midwifery!

Oh no alien horrid that you had a row. Are you OK? Watching midwifery sounds like a good plan. Hope your DH doesn't get too snorey tonight and lets you rest.

Emotional and sore boobs ... hmmmm ...

Aww alien, hope you make up soon. My DP snores when he rolls onto his back and I have to poke him to get him to turn over!! What programmes on midwifery do you? I quite like watching too but can never find any!

hey gardenpixie Im fine, he is back now and all is ok, he gets really bitchy when he is in a bad mood lol , I hope he isnt too snorey tonight too!

Hmmmm I think I may be wishing for a BFP I did POAS this afternoon but was a BFN which I expected, me thinks it is defo PMT , not that I know when I should POAS lol. How close to expected ERTD?

raspberrytipple Channel is called Really (Channel 248 on Sky)for the "desperate midwives" programme. I try to roll DH over but he is 6ft 4" and 16 stone of muscle so makes it tricky lol

x

Ahh, I don't have sky :-(
I shall have to try and get my fix elsewhere.

ooooo that's shame :( I can't live without Sky,,,, ok I am super sad now lol.

Evening ladies, room for a little one in this lovely booth by the open-fired snug? Mine's a red wine please barman. Am joining hangover club too and hoping the virtual drink doesn't send me over the edge!

Actually after a weekend of general binging a fry up at the lovely cafe down the road, quick pint at lunchtime and home cooked roast beef dinner has sorted me out. Am craving chocolate now but neither of us can be bothered to get out of slouchy clothes and go to the shop!

Excited for even more BFPs this weekend!! Definitely something in the water at the Three Follicles. Here's to many more this month .

For me ERTD has wandered off again so we've been SWIing once again. Am a little concerned that it was very light and only 4 days but hoping that's not a bad sign. If my cycle really has settled now, I'll be OVing around 14th so will be practising this week for some proper SWIing the following week. Am actually quite excited that I could have a relatively predictable 2ww this month!

Good luck to everyone waiting to test and apologies in advance for any typos, I'm on my phone while DH plays on the

Bloody hell I don't look in for a few days and everyone goes and gets up the duff!!!!

Congrats guys!! Majorly chuffed for you all!!

And also congrats to Evil on the very late arrival of you ERTD!!

I'm sick as a dog but otherwise happy! Got my first midwife appt tomorrow afternoon so excited for that.

erm sorry, was a bit previous there. Was only wittering on though really. DH is on the PS3 in case you were wondering!

So congrats to Crazydayz and to you too Cherry try not to stress hon, as you said it's early and after several POAS attempts the HCG may have been too diluted to show up.

EvilG pleased for you and ERTD appearance. Here's to a new cycle!

Enjoy the rest of Sunday evening and let's hope Monday morning stays away for as long as possible!

Evening all

I'll join you all in a glass of red.

Just got back up to London & DH has gone to park the car.

Feeling a touch of the Sunday night blues as really don't want to go to work tomorrow

truffkin - your weekend of food indulgence sounds lovely

garden I'm glad you had a medical friend to speak to. As has been shown on here recently quality of medical professionals can be rather hit & miss. I always hate it when I don't understand something properly and have to rely on someone elses opinion.

alien maybe you should try first thing in the morning?

I'm hoping that I get ERTD appear this week. Have bough my CBDM up to London with me just in case. If it doesn't then off to the doctor next week for me

Yes I echo that cherry try not to get too worried.

bellaby do you really think I should? I am thinking it is just PMT symptoms as I havent had any other symptoms apart from increased CM ( sorry for TMI!!)

OMG alien PMT symptoms and increased CM???

I am not going to be able to post much tomorrow due to boring old work stuff but if you do POAS please keep us informed - i'll definitely sneak off and check MN during the day

alien I would probably say maybe wait until Weds when you will be 28 days which is a typical cycle length but it depends how long your previous cycles have been.

I have absolutely no symptoms but will prob POAS at the end of the week anyway just to make sure and so I don't go to the doctor unless I am sure

gardenpixie lol think maybe little too early for the fizz! I'm sure it's just ERTD symptoms bellaby this is only my 2nd cycle after 5 years with the Mirena and no periods at all so all new really- time between 1st ERTD and 2nd was 33 days so very confusing as to when I should expect ERTD. I'll test next weekend I think if I have no ERTD by then as 10th of the month seems to be my target day , give or take couple of days. I didn't have this much pain with my boobs before but I think it'll be my body getting into normal pmt symptoms as I would guess I would have more symptoms.

I am one that always thinks the worse so that if something happens for the good I feel great lol.

Ps Dh

Oooo one is not good at posting from phone lol was supposed to say DH is snoring his head off!! Hopefully it will stop soon, his Dad was a terrible snorer! Hope he doesn't take after him as there won't be much BD if we re in separate rooms lol.
I hate Sunday evenings:( back to school tomoz but we have our stunning start day for our creative curriculum so I'm making decorative teddy bear biscuits ( thank goodness for Digestives!), having a bears picnic and then a bear hunt :0) so not Too much of a bad day I suppose... Now to choose a bear to accompany me on the picnic :-0)

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