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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 21:05

Now then Owly we'll have no talk of cool-fail from you, missy. I think you'll find that I am the least cool person on the fred and indeed in London, and I shall thank you to remember it Grin. I found a piece of my bedside lamp under the mattress cover the other day. Happy to post it to anyone who needs a talisman.

In other news, did anyone else notice that Owly cunningly appeared to be self-deprecating about her skillz, whilst at the same time hinting that she had given some of Rackers' works a go, and therefore is obviously really bloody talented? Yeah. I saw that too. I mean really

Ariesgirl · 04/09/2010 21:14

Yes! Everyone! . My bf is about to pop, my sis has recently popped (as you know and know and know...), the girl down the road, my sister's friends and everyone.

I know that if I had known Rachmaninov that I would have wanted to shag him.

ginhag · 04/09/2010 21:18

ARIES BUNDLE!!!!!

Headbanger · 04/09/2010 21:21
Ariesgirl · 04/09/2010 21:21

Oh yes, just imagine what he could have done with those fingers.

TwinkleToes76 · 04/09/2010 21:21

have also met Benjamin Zephaniah and Roni Size! oh oh oh, and I once served Kylie and Ben de Lisi (not together) in a restaurant - she had soup but didn't eat it, he left a big tip. And finally, Steve Coogan once told us to fuck off in Brighton... my claims to fame are lame.

Aries I feel your pain!

Ariesgirl · 04/09/2010 21:26

Kylie? KYLIE? That, dammit, is the most impressive of the lot!

Saladbomb · 04/09/2010 21:44

gin i am even more in awe of you, the cure AND Liz Fraser? All of mine have that tenuous mothers best friends next door neighbour type thing going on as in:

My mums best mate went out with Mick jagger
Steve Windwood used to play in my dads band (before he got famous)
My godmothers brother was in Traffic.
My great uncle was married to Barbara Hepworth (before she was married to Ben Nicolson)
One of my friends went out with Robbie Williams when she was 14 :D

Not much of that apart from the first one and last one, will mean much to you unless you know a bit about art and 60's blues bands. pretty tenuous anyway...

Scorpette · 04/09/2010 22:01

Rachmaninov-courseIwould! I've got an organ he can practice on, etc., etc.

Am impressed by the Hepworth thing :)

I was also in the Anthrax tour book 1988. BEAT THAT!

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Scorpette · 04/09/2010 22:03

PS KYLIE the most impressive? Did I not say that John Nettles sent me a POSTCARD? Philistines!

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Saladbomb · 04/09/2010 22:09

I also once met Princess Annie and was winked at by Harry Enfield (not at the same time obv)

I hope you have the postcard kept somewhere very very safe scroppy Its the kind of thing the grandkids will cherish you know (or sell on ebay)

owlshoes · 04/09/2010 22:42

Naw, HB , am proper shit at piano, proper shit I tell thee. I used to be able to play the cricket theme tune on a glockenspiel though. And I did play the tubular bells and timpani and stuff in the local orchestra, that was top.

I photoed a Tory MP the other week, does that count? He was a smug fecker. Ooh ooh ooh and I once saw Bob Mortimer in a hotel lobby in Manchester.

starnosemole · 04/09/2010 22:43

I can't believe that for the first time in bedonkey's years I have sat and watched in film with BBB (Big bald bloke) and there were smooching on the sofa and everything, and I missed TWO PAGES of bragging about famous meets, which I bloody started, with the most lamest one I have,(no offence Trev) and now it's too late to join in and I can't tell you about eating chips and sharing cab with Noel Fielding, or going for curry with Richard Wilson, or even that used to talk to Julian Fellowes on a regular basis as I lived with his niece...bah humbug.

Mostly though am moist with excitement that scorpactress and I could well have walked the same paths in Edinburgh, when were you there dahhhling?? Alan Partridge is my first love, co-incidence? I think not....(Also Mark Watson went to college with my brother and they were mates and in a play together that Mark wrote before he was anybody famous, so I know who you mean)

gin spoke to me! Me!

Aries (not met, bashful toe along calf scrape) I feel your pain, had four new born babies on my news feed last week. Most of them were not all that, except one who is my nephew, so is ok.

Twinks , and bum,how do I look at last page without losing message, humblest apologies, other lovelies who shared mc experience, merci. I know I'm just being impatient- had of course planned to be rediffed before the beep, but just don't feel very fertile, and slightly concerned about picked eggs after large amount of consolation grape juice. Plan get fit thin and sober starts on Monday.

Upper cuts to all

owlshoes · 04/09/2010 22:48

Mmm consolation grape juice (and coffee and brie and pate)

starnosemole · 04/09/2010 22:52

owly sorry, twas you, thank you,sorry for crap timing, how long ago was it?
feel free to play my tubular bells any time as punishment for forgetting who it was. (that's breast feeding for you folks [sceptical])

starnosemole · 04/09/2010 22:53

lots of pate. And I believe you are not supposed to eat chocolate or pringles when diffed, so made the most of those since too..

starnosemole · 04/09/2010 23:00

OOOOMMMMMGGGG just realised I wrote Alan Partrige and I clearly meant Alan Parker, Urban warrior. He's my first love, not that Coogan face, good god. Put it down to first night nerves. aaaaand cluster post!

Saladbomb · 04/09/2010 23:08

holy shit, I have just gleaned from another thread that there are such things as baby name consultants. You pay someone to come up with your babys name? What sort of fuckwittery is this?

Sorry that was random, anyway, you cant eat pringles when you are diffed? Thats bent. The chocolate would be cos of the caffeine i spose?

starnosemole · 04/09/2010 23:18

Sallypop you can have plain pringles, but not sour cream and onion, or salt and vinegar. So it's not really worth it.

Saladbomb · 04/09/2010 23:22

what about bbq or paprika? tbh anything with that much msg in would probably give me raging indigestion, I have a feeling i will be a martyr to my digestive system should i ever be lucky enough to get diffed. (this is looking increasingly unlikely as we really should be SWIing right now, instead I am posting and he is playing UNO over Xbox Live with random Merkins :o)

starnosemole · 04/09/2010 23:34

merkins as in lady garden wigs? or is it a bit like a stoat?

Saladbomb · 04/09/2010 23:37

cheeky name for Americans. Wink

Scorpette · 04/09/2010 23:40

Ooooooh! Get Moleskine, being all 'I'm 'ever so 'umble' and then reveals herself to be the supreme starfucker of them all! Wink ( Starfuckermole? )

Richard Wilson? Envy Julian Fellowes? Envy Envy NOEL FIELDING??? Envy Envy Envy

Talking of Julian Fellowes and also name consultants, perhaps he and his wife ought to have used one, because they named their son Peregrine. Hmm There's posh and then there's ridiculous.

I was in the 'Burgh performing in '90 and '91 (it was Youth Theatre. Don't hate me) and visited there in '96 and ?. If that's any help :)

Is the reason you can't eat Pringles when you're pg because they're rank as fuck and it's not fair to make the baby feed on them too?

Salad, your bloke is playing XBOX Live with pubic wigs? Is this technology gawn mad?! Shock

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starnosemole · 05/09/2010 00:05

what was the venue? ...to hear better alright!?
Noel was our little pocket cute boy who me and me gaghag mate also used to get us into places, and to get us closer to Julian "I am a freelance scientist" Barrett, who was a bit less sociable. My much more attractive friend worked at the bar in the Pleasence, and I happily rode her coat tails of an August! Such happy days, little did we know that little lion faced Noel would grow up into such a stud muffin!
Pringles are Not Good food, but sometimes only that will do.

I never thought to call Americans that, I don't think I'll be able to look one in the eye again...an American I mean.

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