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30s TTC: Back to school at BESHory Towers. For spiffing gels who've been TTC since before rationing ended and find conception harder than Double Latin, chiz . What ho!

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Scorpette · 28/08/2010 23:53

Come along, we haven't got all day. Pop off your blazers and straw boaters for a mo and listen up. As Head Girl, I think you ought to know that my dear chum Darrell Rivers tells me that we're really letting the side down with our lack of baybee-winning. To that end, instead of prep and lacrosse, we'll be TTC. I know some of us are losing hope that we'll ever win the Motherhood Cup for our house, but chins up and think of England! We don't won't to end up like the bitter, childless, dried-up old spinsters running this place, do w... oh, hello Matron! Yes, yes, we're going now...

Super! We've been given the attic dorm - bagsy the bed by the window, what! We won't be disturbed when we're enjoying midnight feasts, unbridled lesbianism, pillow fights and sneaking in fellows from the nearby boy's school for some ghastly dreadfulness.

So let's pop some Joyce Grenfell on the gramophone and crack open the tuck boxes! Mater's made me a huge ginger cake and oooh, I see someone's brought pontefract cakes! Yummo! Humbugs, sherbet, elderflower fizz, eccles cakes, a whole slab of choccy - what a simply smashing haul! Hmmm, this ginger beer smells suspiciously gin-like...

Oh yes

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BarbiesBeaver · 03/09/2010 12:14

Aaargh stop it! Being nice and SadLyra is making me sniffle at my desk now. Can I push your friend over please? Mind you, with her amazing boobs she'll just bounce right back up again no harm done.

She sounds suspiciously like a friend of mine - long blonde hair, tiny size 8, big boobs, great job (and she's also lovely and funny) bah! Just had her second perfect baby - and her bloke has walked out on her. I had no idea. So you never know what's going on behind those perfect doors. Don't go if it's going to upset you, she has a million people to be happy for her, you don't have to torture yourself if it's going to make you sad.

Can we have a huge PESH/BESH pile on? Cos it's Friday and I think we could all do with some lesbotic squishings. .

Scorpette · 03/09/2010 12:15

Gah, didn't refresh enough - Lyra, you'd be a freak NOT to be totally Envy at that woman. I get a weird sense of Envy at my own Mum, because she's actually one of those people who everything seems to go effortlessly right for (stunning, thin and can eat anything, love at first sight with my Dad, got pg first try both times, wants a job? gets a job, super-brainy, everyone loves her and she has so many friends she struggles to keep up with them all. she's also incredibly fashionable and stylish and a great cook, artistically and musically talented, etc.). Does that make me sound like a Bad Daughter? Is hard wondering why I haven't inherited her weight, more of her looks and her luck.

But - and here's where y'all realise I'm not turning the ire-a of Lyra (see what I did there?) into a mememe - I mention this because as her daughter, I've also seen that she doesn't actually have non-stop happiness and luck. And neither does the cousin's woman. You know that of course, but it's so easy to forget. Some people, like my Mum and that woman, have the enviable ability to think about what they want and then just presume it'll happen - and if it doesn't, then they'll adapt. They don't stress and strain and obsess over the outcome; they're not over-invested in their desires. And things DO seem to come to people like this so easily, precisely because they don't put all the teeny-tiny barriers the rest of us erect to stand in our own way without even realising it. And because they're relaxed and trusting about their fate, they tend not to moan about their woes, so it adds to the sense of them never having probs.

That's my take, anyway. Just call me Freudette Wink

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Scorpette · 03/09/2010 12:16

BUNDLE!

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Headbanger · 03/09/2010 12:21

I agree LyraPops (there is no logic to that nickname - I just felt like it). Some wimminz do seem to have things vay vay easy. But you never know what might be going on inside - or indeed be coming round the corner. And also, you never know how others view you: I nearly threw up my pint of Director's Bitter when a friend's sister, who seems to me to have all that life could bring, said she wanted to be me. Poor sow!

Bundles indeed. Let me take my dress off Grin

Truffkin · 03/09/2010 12:43

Afternoon BESHettes, the sun is out, the weekend is peeping round the corner and you lot are making me feel glad to be alive.

Freudenscorp actual LOLing from me at your TYF coming home story. Anything good on this morning (clearly a rhetorical questions, of course I know it is a pile of pants)

Beaverella glad to hear you are being embarrassed out of doom town by kindliness of BESHes and general lezzing off.

Am interested to see that many different poz types have resulted in diffment. I am quite fond of a good clamber on although (a la Scorperino's TYF) TGB is not a big fan of it and prefers to retain control.

Also agreeing with 98%Lycra that perfect life people + really nice with it = Envy even if all cannot be as perfect as it seems from the outside.

Have probably missed the pile on action now but pliz to visit my newly opened kissing booth so I can fully embrace the life of a sexually experimental teenage boarder raise money for a worthy cause?

Scorpette · 03/09/2010 13:04

This Morning was ultra-shite as he-devil Jeremy Kyle was co-presenting!

PS I meant that the TYF doesn't like me clambering on, so we are well-suited. We have a fab time in the bedrom... sleeping, of course. We just exchange wistful glances across a misty railway platform in lieu of actual secks.

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cincotart · 03/09/2010 13:15

When I was recently moaning talking to Mr T about unfair it seems that other people 'have it all' (money, house with garden and all important baby - simple pleasures, not that much to ask for surely?) his response was 'well there's one thing they haven't got at the moment that we have....a sex life'. Gotta live him Grin

'tis true we never really know what's going on in peoples lives but doesn't stop the Envy when all we can see is bloody perfection.

scorps giggling at your TYF finding you red handed. I'm always trying to make it seem like I've been veh veh busy when in actual fact sounds very similar to you Hmm. And I have never, I repeat never been known to sit watching the home and health channel all about diffed laydeez having baybeez. Nope, not me. Confused Good news that Mr T has agreed needles sound like a good idea so I'll be giving your lady a tinkle Grin

Am I too late for the bundle...can we do another anyway, think we deserve it :)

cincotart · 03/09/2010 13:17

love...love him FFS

Scorpette · 03/09/2010 13:27

Get bundling, Tarty!

Bloody hell, just discovered that Celine Dion (54 if she's a day) and her 105 yr-old husband are expecting twins. Now, am sure they are OMG-IVF-TWINZZZZZZ and she has the face of a retarded horse, but am still Envy

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Scorpette · 03/09/2010 13:28

Ah. It was her 6th IVF attempt and says needling is what helped her. Am a little less Envy now.

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Truffkin · 03/09/2010 13:34

Gosh yes, just realised my post makes it sound like TGB denies me my sexual preferences, tiz obv not so. I need to think more carefully about how I word things before posting unclever things for all to see.

HopOnLegolas · 03/09/2010 13:46

I knew someone would come up with sensible advice for Lyra.

Is it just me or does everyone cringe on the phone to the potential employer? Like When can you start? Cringe. Are you looking for a permanent position? CRINGE. What kind of salary are you looking for? CRINGE CRINGE CRINGE CRINGE CRINGE.

I am still cringing.

And I am all about day time telly today because I CAN.

Scorpette · 03/09/2010 14:03

I cringe at that stuff too. Trying to get the editor of the mag I'll be published in (get me!) to send me the final edit is proving a nightmare!

Anyhoo, am off to the gym. Feel the burn, hate the thighs, etc., etc.

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PollyPoo · 03/09/2010 14:06

I do expect I will be in here tomorrow Scorps. Now I have t'internet access seems I can't stay away. Thank you fellow Hags for the birfday wishes. Grin BTW the reason we have so many little hols is thanks to the freebie use of the 'rents caravan in dorsetshire. Tis not exactly a hotel with dinner, B&B in Maldives. More like home from home - I don't get a rest from cooking or cleaning unfortunately. Angry But the sun is shining and the beach is nearby and no-one cares if I want to stick my nose in a book all day long. Boo tends to bug TG all day as she loves it when he is off work, so I guess in that way I get a rest!

Sorry to hear that some of you BESHes are suffering the crapness of the AC route. Would a round of cucumber sandwiches washed down with gin and bitter lemon help? And I am still so fucking angry that Scorps can't get the AC support due to the ConDems. (genius description btw, who coined that one?!) BESHSMASH. Envy

Who wants to join me for a midnight feast tomorrow night in celebration commiseration of my birthday? I will bring the gin and some fig rolls. (Can you tell I was the one at school who was always getting drunk?) [shame]

laurielou · 03/09/2010 14:21

polly you had me at fig rolls. Love 'em. I'll be there.

lyra Envy My SIL is like that. But I can't hate her coz she's so nice. Bah! But she has had a couple of heartache things. Also, same as head before BIL met SIL he told his mum he wanted mine & the boyf's life as it looked so perfect. I nearly had an asthma attack laffing. So I suppose a lot of it is smoke & mirrors.

Am I too late for the lesbot bundle?

laurielou · 03/09/2010 14:22

Of course, I do have the perfect life with the boyf Grin

moomaker · 03/09/2010 14:52

Stole ConDem's from a girl at work, (Civil Servant, description is very apt for many areas of life atm)

HopOnLegolas · 03/09/2010 14:59

A friend rung up and made me miss the beginning of Diagnosis Murder. Don't they know I have day time telly to watch!?!?!? FFS LOL!!11!!

Proud of you Score no gym for me yet. Still choosing the diet program, ha ha!

PooOnPolly I'll join you at midnight. I think we should ask our lurkers to light up the scene. I also want to make your cake. Bloody diet.

HopOnLegolas · 03/09/2010 15:10

You know, I have been buried in my studies, what have the ConDem done? Seriously, I have been totally out of touch. I just noticed they are procreating. Do you reckon if she was in London they'd be goin' to Portland?

LadyGoneGaga · 03/09/2010 16:14

Just had some lovely news that wanted to share. Some friends of ours are pregnant. He had testicular cancer twice and therefore no balls left. They conceived using frozen jizz, second round of IVF. I didn't even know they were going down this route. So v happy for them. Smile Hormones are making me weepy.

Scorpette · 03/09/2010 16:22

It's cos of the new government that they've brought in legislation forcing PCTs all over the country to either slash their AC budget massively or totally. I have been one of the first victims of this Sad Angry

Lots of people on Twitter, etc., were coming up daft name combos for the coalition government when it was announced. ConDems seemed the obvious choice Grin

I really enjoyed going to the gym, but I'm still a bit wheezy (I have very mardy lungs). Why do I forget how much I like it, grrrr?! Am poaching salmon now to have with a fresh garden salad. Can't even believe this is me!

PolPot, don't apologise for enjoying the odd break now and then, I think it's great. So what if it's a caravan? Is lovely to get away from it all and you deserve it. Your b-day stuff will arrive late, but you'll not be home until after it anyway, so feel less guilty. Can I have some extra snogs from your still-38 yr old self? See you at the midnight feast Wink

Ooooh, forgot to say - my parents alerted me to this article in yesterday's Grauniad: www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/02/fertility-study-mice-eggs-older-mothers Is exciting and something to keep abreast of (FNARR!).

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Scorpette · 03/09/2010 16:24

YAY FOR GAGA'S PALS! Awwww, success stories like that warm the frozen cockles of my black, black heart. And provide BESHpiration for us all; if they can do it despite those odds, so can we! Grin

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RunLyraRun · 03/09/2010 17:06

Fanks all for sympafy, although I don't deserve as I am simply a jealous caaaah. Looking forward to midnight feast for Poobum's birthday tomorrow - see you then if not before.

moomaker · 03/09/2010 17:15

Started making a trifle for the feast, but ended up scoffing all the custard straight from the box, oh well at least my appetite is back.

You will all have to settle for my reserve option of calorie free chocolate cornflake cakes, and my speciality bombay pinkfizz punch.

PS anyone organised a stripper, or are we entertaining DIY style.

Ariesgirl · 03/09/2010 17:18

Oh and Lyra, your friend with the perfect life and enormous boobs? Well, after she's sprogged her boobs will descend southwards faster that you can say Jack Robinson. You just watch.

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