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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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HopOnLegolas · 05/09/2010 15:12

p.s. Champion was Scorpion. Gettit?

Ariesgirl · 05/09/2010 15:30

What's that? Oh I'm still here. I'm just hoovering and tidying in preparation for the influx of BESHes coming to live in my commune. MrA won't know what's hit him.

HopOn you sound very clever and I am in awe of you. It's good work indeed to be making career progress in today's financial climate.

Talking of the financial climate, did you know the all the council-run tourist information centres and their staff in our county are going to be given the boot, as they are cutting the budget by 50%. How thick and short sighted can you get? And also the ONE Arts centre (music, dance, drama - a bit of everything really) in the whole area has had its £30,000 Arts Council grant taken away and is having to close, and now we are going to have to travel 30 miles to a "decent" venue. This when there are so many wanky art galleries having public money pumped into them that no one wants to look at because it's so incomprehensible. Fucking fucking fuck. It's all shit.

moomaker · 05/09/2010 16:35

Hi Gals, I have the greatest sympathy for everyones work concerns age/experience freak outness. I now have to manage the lady who was my tutor 5 years ago. But have had plenty of strangly weired role reversals previously.

When I was doing my GCSE's I was on the same rounders coaches course as my head of year (and head of PE), and part of my assessment I had to give feedback on her batting and call her by her first name. Also during my A-Levels two of my primary school teachers and my current maths teacher were in my adult learn to swimming class.

PS have met Buzz Aldrin, and got invited back to the Fulham FC hotel by Chris Coleman (tbf it was my mate he fancied) and was a backing singer on a record {aged 7}

Headbanger · 05/09/2010 16:47

Aries I haz messaged you

HopOnLegolas · 05/09/2010 17:39

Ella don't be in awe. I ain't got no job yet! So maybe totally jinxing it by posting it on here. I was just looking for some reassurance in my crap unconfidence. And that's truly shit about councils. I always wonder about this 'free market' neoliberal blah blah philosophy. If you want Britain to compete in the free global market, surely you need to support what it's famous for / good at. And some of that is cultural industries. Or the BBC. It's fekkin' what people know the UK for! You would totally hinder 'free market' competitivness (is that a word, spellchecker is underlining it for me) of the UK as a whole if you killed such an institution. Anyhoo, I am going to join CoreScore in the rant corner.

Moo good for you (for seniority and Fulham equally Grin).

HopOnLegolas · 05/09/2010 17:40

Oi, you two, don't you be canoodling without the rest of us!

Medee · 05/09/2010 18:58

excuse me, Legless, are you a new poster, or an old one with a new name? I'm an old poster, posting more sporadically and I don't think I have met you yet. Welcome, if you are new.

downonthefarm · 05/09/2010 19:01

Have been for long walk around the hockey pitches and am now feeling better about droid arrival at the end of last week. Sad

I have lured the beeping **er into the technology labs and taken it apart to kill it forever learn how it works.

I has a question for the laydeez who have had an HSG. I have one booked next week and have booked an afternoon off work. I've since found out that I need to be working at the other end of the country (well, 4 hr drive anyway) the next morning, so will need to head straight after the hosp appointment.
I'm prepared to be sore, but will it be incapacitating and should / can I drive? Work knows nothing about anything hospital appointments.

Any help plz?

gin fizz for you all

Ariesgirl · 05/09/2010 19:12

Oh she ain't new Meds

Have messaged you back, Oh Needy One. All good, all good.

I dunno much about the procedure Farmgirl but I believe that it takes different people different ways.

Ariesgirl · 05/09/2010 19:18

Are men thick or what? Or is it just mine? He knows this is the sexy time. He knows we haven't done it yet due to tiredness etc. So we have a day off today, and he goes off surfing for relaxation and I book that bastard in for Teh Secs when he comes back, and now he has just phoned to say don't get cross, but he's bringing back a few friends for some beers and then we're all going out into town for the evening. What fun! An evening in a provincial backwater with a load of pissed up surfer twats.

I'm being mean by the way. I actually like them a lot. But honestly Angry

Scorpette · 05/09/2010 19:22

FarmerGiles, I would rebook it if I were you OR put off travelling for a bit. The thing is with HSGs is that every woman experiences them differently and nobody can predict who'll feel what. Poor old Drom was in a right state after hers, I remember all too well. I haven't had one but everyone I know who has has been told not to drive afterwards and to have someone with them. But the choice about what to do has to be yours.

WaDiddlyMedee! SMOOOOOOCH! Grin

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Headbanger · 05/09/2010 19:22

ARGH Aries I would be fucking fuming Sad Angry

Saladbomb · 05/09/2010 19:24

Yep men are thick. Glad mine is tho, I have gleaned from todays conversation that he has NO IDEA that last nights jiggy was the beginning of Diffment Week. ;-)

Um dunno, aries I would be miffed at this, is it crucial you do it today? Or would tomorrow morn/evening be ok?

Medee HopOn is the new incarnation of a certain fey mountaineer? :o

Ariesgirl · 05/09/2010 19:26

They're here. Time to plaster a smile on and get off MN.

saltyair · 05/09/2010 19:28

Evening Gels. I has made a Pathia with king prawns for those of you who do seafood and paneer/veg for those of you who don't.

Aries my dear, I feel your pain. The only thing worse than 2Woofling is not 2Woofling coz of no SECS.

Could I please add constipation to my list of symptoms?

Medee · 05/09/2010 19:33

aha, I follow now, thanks Salad

Saladbomb · 05/09/2010 19:33

Plz can i have both? Paneer is my favourite but i love king prawns too. Mmm home made curry, I think you are my ideal woman salty Can we ditch our men, run away to Aries house, shack up in the shed at the bottom of the garden and raise a bevee of stolen baybees?

Medee · 05/09/2010 19:34
saltyair · 05/09/2010 19:37

Yes salad dear, of course we can would you like raita with that?

Right, I'm packed, when do we leave?

Muser · 05/09/2010 19:44

Is there any daal? I have such a thing for tarka daal at the moment. Nom.

saltyair · 05/09/2010 19:47

There is indeed Daal Muserlicious

Now, anything else I can do for you

Saladbomb · 05/09/2010 19:50

oh me too, tarka daal AND raita please. Mmmm garlic snogs.

OK, raspberry gin, check. complete works of Austen, check. wet suit, check. right i'm packed too. see you there salts

RunLyraRun · 05/09/2010 19:55

Well done today Muse, do you feel all empowered and shiz?

OldMacDonaldHadA, I agree with ScorpinaBallerina, do NOT take yourself for a 4 hour drive after your HSG. Yes, you might be fine. Or you might lose the plot, as I did. I had been planning to go alone, HO got time off to accompany me at the last minute, I was so so SO glad he did.

Paneer please, salty. And a small topless snuggle?

RunLyraRun · 05/09/2010 19:58

Aries I would be fucking fuming too - unless a drunken jump is on the cards? We managed a stealth shag on Friday with my parents sleeping in the next room - not ideal but still counts, dunnit.

Muser · 05/09/2010 20:02

I mostly feel a bit sore Lyra. I pulled something in my thigh. But I am proud of myself.

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