Avast Behind! Full of salty seamen and buxom lasses, the Gin Palais is heading off in search of Pirate Booty! For those brave BESHly wenches in their 30’s, TTC since the Black Death.

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Ahoy Gin Hags, behold the Hendrick?s Palais, the finest sea goin? vessel that ever left these God forsaken shores. Packed with comely wenches and salty seamen, I be lookin? for a BESHly crew to travel the seas in search of booty. Land lubbers lackin? a twisted disposition need not apply.

Let me shiver yer minges with tales of the fearsome Droid Monster, who raises his bloody head each month, and the dreaded 2WOOFL, where the vaguest signs can be espied from the top o? the Crow?s Nest.

Get ye to the Brig, yer scurvy dogs, where Roger the Cabin Boy will see to yer needs, or apply the Cat O? Nine tails to yer britches if ye should mutter the oaths of Babydust.

Drink up me hearties, yo ho(es).

C'mon the MAD!!! We are gaining momentum for sure.

I BBMed TB this morning and told him about the cheapies and that I was going to nip out and buy a proper one He had been in a meeting tho so he rang me and told me to get on with it :D then messaged him this avo to tell him it was + too. He says hes excited but being realistic as its such early days but we both agree its nice to know we can actually get diffed on our own even if it doesn't work out this time.

Thing is we chat so much on BBM that I can't think of any other way. Its like a stream of consciousness to each other throughout the day. Sounds a bit sad and geeky but I told him I thought I might cry if I had told him on the phone first. And there is NO WAY I could have waited til he got home. :o

Lettice Yay! Congratulations! Hurrah! Am so pleased for you, lovely.

and yes Gaga you DID know, but I was comfy on river boat at the time. But thanks so much for being so encouraging this week. It's helped a lot when I didn't dare think it!

Gin, as I've explained a gazillion times now, I was NOT slagging off people doing stuff like drinking or smoking, etc., or saying that my way is right - I was commenting on a particular type of attitude of deliberately wanting to do all the wrong things as a fuck-you. Completely different things. No criticising of people doing what they need to do to cope - please to read wot I wrote more fully? For the last time: questioning a mindset, not criticising what people do. Cannot be clearer than that.

And PS I really do bite my tongue more than you'd imagine. I disagree with quite a lot of things people say and let them slide (as I'm sure we all do now and then), because it's none of my business. But I'm allowed to have an opinion about people being fuck-you about stuff the same as those people are allowed to be fuck-you.

thank you all gin muse twitshoes dollyclit perfecthumps polly HB scorps n cinco (hope i didn't forget anyone) for your luffly messages. i am a bit still. massive EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

Rocket, have sent you a msg on here (is great we can do that now)!

scorps it is actually just possible if you come across a certain way to several people in your posts that there may be something in that. Whether your intention or not. I am perfectly fucking capable of reading ta.

Calling in to add my huuuuuuuuge congratumalations to Lettice for starting the MADP in true BESH style with WOOFLing, a short trip down de Nile and several pee sticks before acceptance settled in. So excited for you and now excitedly waiting for a visit from PrIEonastick to appear and make an announcement of her own

Happy win day

When you were comfort eating etc the way you talked about it was equally 'fuck you' but is was a coping mechanism and we all saw it as such. This is my point. I am saying no more not but PLEASE don't patronise me.

The really awful thing is that my Vices aren't really coping mechanisms: I just have all the self-control of the Marquis de Sade in a knife-shop staffed by pale virgins with big bottoms. Someone goes on a bender in the near vicinity and I jump up and down squealing 'Ooooo me too, me too!'. And if they don't go on a bender I try and make' em .

Actually can we call that a coping mechanism please, owing to a lot of painful and deep-seated insecurities? Thanks :)

I just really like fine wine and cake.

There are a lot of hormones flying around in here today; calmness my fellow BESHes. Let us all perv over appreciate the Cho statue I nicked from off the last fred and meditate on who will be next MADwinner. Stop staring at poor Ariel , you've made her run away.

My mum used to tell a story about a pupil at school. When said pupil joined the school, her parents were tres keen to make sure that she wasn't exposed to any naughty people, as she was very easily influenced and had had to leave the last school because she had fallen in with a Bad Crowd.

Two days later, my mum caught her smoking with a lot of previously nice girls.

Turned out that new pupil was, in fact, the Bad Crowd all by herself.

And that, dearest Ead, is you, that is.

thanks truff the FUFC ironidiff aspect as conception will have happened either the day of or after FC consultant advised Go Straight to IVF do not pass Clomid/IUI etc.

I used to be like that HB I have found it a bit easier over the last 6 months and have actually enjoyed nights out being sober with drunk people, which takes some practice I must admit. FUnny tho after today ALL i want is a large gin and tonic :D perhaps I am just thirsty?

HB you should ear mark BadCrowd for later name change shens.

Oh rocket that is wonderful news. I'm so excited for you, and a little sniffly too. Can you believe it? It's a real line! And a real BOC! I am more than happy that you will not be my IVF buddy :).

'Tis slightly the troof Droms. Helps that I look so farkin innocent

I got hauled before the headmistress in the lower sixth. Was standing outside the school gates smoking; games teacher walked past & clocked the fag; I looked at her & drew in yet more deeply as she walked past.

That's insolent apparently .

Laurie I have an idea, maybe a daft one, that the month you get a BFP something will be different to usual. So for example, people who usually spot will not do so, and people who usually don't, will. Do you see? Can a PESH or a previous differ tell me if that is true?

Naw; tis not necessarily true. I had exactly the same symptoms with diffage as I did with droid. Except obviously absence of actual droid.

HB I also spent much of my school years getting told off for having an attitude problem. I like to think I still have one

Can someone please tell me what BOC stands for?

I went off booze. I always reckon pg is like PMT cubed. Uber-sore boobies, really crampy tummy, hyper emotional. Yucky mouth taste is different though.

BOC = Bundle of Cells. Because we're sentimental BESHes.

I didn't spot. Only difference between that and normal PMT. Oh, and I went for a run the night before I tested and had to stop because my norks hurt soo much.

Thanks Lyra my eyes are a wee bit moist too. I will still be along for the FC ride whether partaking or not, you don't get rid of me that easily. I suppose I should cancel next weeks appointment at some point but going to leave it til the last minute just in case.

I have absolutely no symptoms at all. My boobs don't feel sore but might be a bit bigger than normal maybe . I have a really spotty chin but thats pretty normal for pre droid too. I have felt I might be a bit more hungry than normal but as I am usually thinking about the next meal before I've finished the current one thats quite hard to track. In fact the only thing really is the lack of predroid symptoms (no back ache, no cramps) but they have never been v noticeable. Probably why I have been in denial this week.

Gin, I didn't say you weren't capable of reading, do not twist my words. I realised a few people took what I initially wrote the wrong way and explained myself better in further posts, and that's what I meant about reading what I wrote more fully. Am not going to keep explaining myself as have made it abundantly clear I was in no way judging or criticising other people's lifestyle choices. Was only putting across a different way of looking at things, which is my right.

Have you ever considered that many things others say about lifestyles feel like I'M being judged and criticised? Like when people laugh at people who want to follow all the baby rules for being daft and neurotic, etc. - it's okay that that makes me feel like an idiot, is it? It's okay to mock people who worry about getting it right/doing daft things wrong, but if I say that I don't understand why people want to be fuck-you, that's wrong, is it? There's a massive attitude of laughing at that sort of thing amongst the BESH and the PESH and it makes me feel like I'm an idiot, even though none of it's directed at me and no-one means to be tactless (I presume so!).

I've been registered disabled since I was 21 due to terrible health so forgive me if I'm a bit neurotic about health issues as people being blase about them makes me nervous. And I feel very left out when people talk about drinking, smoking and all sorts of things and don't like the fact that it's taken as a given that everyone does it and it's normal, but I have NEVER mentioned that that hurts me. I realise my lifestyle is different from most people here and in RL so I just go with the flow.

And I don't think there's anything wrong with doing those things, before anyone comments - I wish I had the health to be so carefree! I just people would remember that not everyone does those things. It makes me feel like an outsider, just like my health has always done and being bullied before that did. But I don't have the right to tell people what they can do or talk about, which is why I've never said any of this before.

I'm perfectly happy for people to do whatever they want to do, talk about whatever they want and have whatever opinions they want. I just expect the same courtesy to be extended to me.

Can we drop it now and focus on Rocket's fantabulous news?

Apollo!!! You won! I'm too fat & wobbly to nekkid dance, but I'm doing a solo Mexican Wave - hurry on up over to the Deli, can't wait to see you!

Very, very delighted for you PocketRocket! What an exciting 24 hours of lurking it has been, following the progress of your wee! So glad to hear that you has a little stowaway aboard, must have snuck on just as the ship was leaving port. I wonder how many others there might be hiding in the shadows right now?! And how brilliant if it means you get to avoid all the AC malarkey. Well done to you, have a pg-friendly rum punch on me.