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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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Headbanger · 04/09/2010 20:01

You can be my Stig Starrynight. I believe I'm right in understanding the chief duties of the Stig to be to serve tea in the morning in a gymslip and no knickers? Yes? Yes. Thought so

Ariesgirl · 04/09/2010 20:03

Oh yes He was very nice. I went to a reading of his when I was in uni and hovered shyly near him until he was kind enough to speak to me. He had a lovely smile and talked to me about which poems I liked. I said "Blackberry Picking" which I suspect wasn't the answer he was after. He'd have preferred me to talk about one of the edgier Troubles ones. And he signed my book.

As for the Tom Jones thing, it's not as impressive as it sounds. He came into the pub and bought everyone there a drink when he was home one time and I happened to be there at the same time. But he was on the bench next to me. I was speechless.

The last one is most impressive.

ginhag · 04/09/2010 20:24

Seamus Heaney. Very very cool!

I've had after hours lock in with the cure, been insulted by Sean Connery and met David Bellamy in a lay-by in France (neither he nor I was dogging in case you were wondering...)

And I used to be a stoner in brizzle so obv have met massive attack. And Beth wotsit from portishead in a toliet and Liz fraser at a bus stop.

This would all be much cooler if there was a chance any of these fuckers actually remembered me!

The cure thing was actually supercool tho. I was only 15.

ginhag · 04/09/2010 20:25

Oh and roni size.

I'm not sure music people really count if you live in Bristol tho.

Ps moleymoleyMOLE I quite like you

Ariesgirl · 04/09/2010 20:26

David Bellamy in a French lay by? Good lord!

ginhag · 04/09/2010 20:27

AND (weirdly) I have kissed Courtney Walsh. Yes, the cricketer.

Do I win a prize?

ginhag · 04/09/2010 20:27

David Bellamy=nice man. Sean Connery=meanie.

ginhag · 04/09/2010 20:31

And Chris Moyles. Who was nicer than you would think. and I shocked him

I will STFU now as I am being quite tedious :)

ginhag · 04/09/2010 20:35

I'm obviously never gonna get a prefect badge y'see as I am too likely to be hanging out with older men and smoking weed, so I have to make my mark on the class somehow!

Ariesgirl · 04/09/2010 20:35

I once shagged George Clooney. I did!

Am dying to know what you said to Moyles...

ginhag · 04/09/2010 20:39

Now THAT would be impressive. And I have no doubt he would remember that!!!

Clooney tho....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

He was trying to shock me about age gaps in relationships. I had quite a big age gap when I was 16. I made some jokes about it. He wasn't prepared for it. It wasn't tat great really :)

Headbanger · 04/09/2010 20:45

Gin I can officially now never to talk you: you are too frighteningly cool Grin.

(Not as cool as Aries doing backing vocals in front of seventy actual people but you're coming pretty fucking close...)

Scorpette · 04/09/2010 20:47

Am v impressed by Seamus Heaney!

I have more (whether you want to hear 'em or not!):

Have met Tony Benn many times (lovely man, great politics, awful teeth), I've performed with Yolande Snaith, Gaby Agis and Shobana Jeyasingh (v big deals in the contemporary dance world!), I once held a door open for Victoria Wood, Mike McShane (big fat Canadian comic, v big in the 90s) once spent hours chatting with me and my friends and bought us all fish and chips, cos we were doing a drama course and working at the theatre he was going to perform at, saw Richard Branson shouting at his kids in the airport in Menorca (over 20 yrs ago!), I talked to Kevin Barnes from of Montreal (this is a VERY big deal to me and TYF - he could've spoken to him too but he was looking in his pocket for several minutes as I nudged him and talked over-loudly to KB, to give TYF the hint, who still ended up not even seeing him!), have met and talked to Benjamin Zephaniah many times, have seen random actors in London (Zoe Telford being the only name I knew), I used to go out with Robin Webb's cousin, used to be friend's with Wole Soyinka's niece, have met Keith Chewgwin and Emlyn Hughes at various fetes when I was little, Jim Nettles sent me a postcard wishing me good luck starting my GCSEs when he was Bergerac (I've never met him, but a family friend lived on Jersey) a famous novelist used to come into my work all the time (I won't mention his name) AND bought me a bottle of champagne for my last day, OH, and most impressive of all: I was picked to go up on stage with Sooty & Sweep to sing 'we're J.O.G.G.I.N.G, we're jogging' when I was seven. Top THAT!

My Mum has met Chinua Achebe AND Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Those can't be beaten for class, really.

On a less exciting note, a man tried to attack my Aunt once, when she lived in Leeds, but she beat the crap out of him and he ran off. Was later proven to be Peter Sutcliffe! Shock Shock Shock

You don't piss off the women in my family Grin

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Scorpette · 04/09/2010 20:49

Gin has been, is and always will be THE coolest member of the gang. The Cure? SO Envy!

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Headbanger · 04/09/2010 20:52

I think the bar has now been raised to a) snogging famous person or b) drinking with them. I retire, bested, from the fray Grin

(Peter Sutcliffe tho! FUCKING HELL! Shock!

Headbanger · 04/09/2010 20:52

What is 'The Cure'?

ginhag · 04/09/2010 20:53

...and you've only heard me mention it about 1,0000 times eh scorps? Grin

They were very nice though. Especially as we decided to stay up all night outside their studio after the lock in. Lovely people.

Fuck me that was a LONG TIME AGO.

(and I know who your novelist is :) He wrote one of my favourite opening pages of all ever)

Ariesgirl · 04/09/2010 20:53

I forgot these two: I've performed at Reading and Glastonbury. And I knew Princess Diana.

Oh God - everyone I know is pregnant. Everyfuckingone. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

Ariesgirl · 04/09/2010 20:55

I think Bergerac's name was Jim and the actor was John Nettles, Scorps! Seen him at Stratford. Got. He was playing Octavius Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra.

ginhag · 04/09/2010 20:55

Oh head bless your cotton hand loomed by people not entirely of this world socks.

A bit like Rachmaninov. But more make up, messier hair and use of electric instruments :)

Headbanger · 04/09/2010 20:56

I know who your novelist is too Score - you have always given just enough info for us t work it aht Wink

Headbanger · 04/09/2010 20:58

I shall wind up my portable gramophone look them up on Youtubes Gin!

Headbanger · 04/09/2010 21:00

In other news (clusterfuckpost alert) who is duffled now Aries? Sorry luvva. I know it gets to feel personal after a bit... Sad

owlshoes · 04/09/2010 21:01

I've never met anyone famous let alone snogged or drunk with them. I do have Johnny Ball's autograph that he sent to me in the post, but I fear this is a bit of Fail as far as coolness is concerned :(

Aries Everyone? Even the men?

Ariesgirl · 04/09/2010 21:02

Respeck to Ginsters. Big respeck.

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