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).

Oh, bugger and ner to rusty pant snot. But my pant snot went a little rusty for a day before my last BFP . Hope the little beepy fucker fucks off for you, I really do. Quick do droid aversion manouvres, woman overboard, up the rigging etc etc

Don't think I was particularly strong today. Just showed up and pretended to work for 8 hours or so. But thanks for all the big-ups lovely BESHies.

Showing up is good enough imo. Just ease yourself back in.

(salad) bombs away.....

little disappointed in myself for going looking for ovaltine really. Been doing really well not menkulling but then when the temp stayed up this morning I started letting my imagination running away with me. setting myself up for a fall tomorrow.

Easily done, Sprocket, when you want something badly. Hope tis not the full on droid xxx

Must go to bed!

Huh? MN has been down on my pc for hours, but you lot have been a-chatting away! The interwebs hate me, waaaah!

Just wanted to say to LadyGGG that I echo what the others have said - you truly are so strong and brave and I can't say how much I admire and respect you. Every day will be a little easier

Crap, cinco I am so sorry. I forgot to say massive congrates on the house news, Gawd bless the Inlaws and loads of luck looking. And also good luck with the follicling, its ALL coming together this month, I can feel it.

Going to need your BESHie help to fend of the menkul today, temp still up, ovaltine has disappeared again. Too sleepy(freaked out) to POAS this morning and wouldn't have believe a BFN from my internet cheapies anyway so didn't see the point and really its too early as droid will porbably just get me later today. So this is the part when the praying to Jebus comes in right?

rocket and aries - stop fucking around you two and do the deed.

To fuel the menkul, can I just say that 12 hours before I got my BFP I got cramping which I was sure was beeping... it was only when I woke up in the morning and no loud beeping that I did it. Testing late is good btw... for you, but not for the rest of us!

whenismyturn I do feel really positive about a second and tbh I'm finding this childcare a piece of piss - bring 'em on. Like I say, I've got to do this before he turns in to a monstrous toddler! I do also have a feeling (wishful thinking?) that my body will know what to do with the spunk I chuck up my chuff this time. I didn't have a Danny last time but it did coincide with a house move in to a small apartment. This time it should coincide with a new job/country move.

There you all are. It's very hard to lurk when you keep flitting to new threads you gobby chatty bunch.

scorps MN went down on me last night too (oo-er matron!)

Just marking place really. I'll be watching...

curly Are you here because you're thinking of number two? If we hang around here we can bump a couple of these pirate-wannabees over to PESH.

Morning me hearty BESHes. Just running in (as off to hospital for my basting ) to bellow POAFS. I'm on tenterhooks for Rockindahouse and aries.

Hmm, Rocketinmypocket can we see the chart? What DPO are you? I got a positive on an Internet cheapie on DPO 10 with Mini O so they do work!

Ski glad you're settling into motherhood so well. Mini O was an absolute nightmare sleeper for the first year so there was no way on this earth it was ever an option for us. I thought I was going to die from lack of sleep (honestly I did, it was that bad!). HOWEVER, now that we have reached toddlerhood, life is great. Sleeping has gone the other way and we have great nights. At the risk of sounding too mushy and being kipper slapped for it, it's because I love this stage of his life that I'm so desperate to have another. The toddler tantrums are few and far between, I think because his language is so good he doesn't get frustrated, and we have a great time. He's also very good with my friends babies, which tugs at my heart strings when he asks to hold them or touch them and then says 'mummy's baby?' and I have to say no, it's not ours . In a round about way I was trying to say, don't dread the toddler years. We think they're brilliant!

Rocket found the chart and it looks like you should be POAS does it not?

Cinco good luck with the basting

Ahhh orchs!! thats so lovely to hear you talk about mini O like that

Toddlers=utterly brilliant and lots more fun than babies!

Fingers crossed for all the poas action....

Rocketupinthesky will keep my fingers crossed for you my lovely. I seem to remember that there are two places still for the taking in the Deli. Let's hope they get taken up soon.

Yeah, rocket & aries POAFS. Pretty please.........

Hell no, ski, I always pop into the palace now and then to be a nosy cow offer my support and soak up the black humour and lesbian erotiviolence.

And today, I'm waiting for some POAFS news...

AAAAAAAAND I'm back in my old kecks . That corset was fucking killing me. I've kept the tightly-laced ankle boots though. Nothing else, mind. Absolutely nothing else remains of my previous persona

A THOUSAND LUCKS for the basting today Cinco. May the Power of the BESH go with you. Happy to sit crouched outside the window with my geetar singing the "Swing, You Fuckers, Swim" song? No? OK, fine

If SOMEONE doesn't POAS Imma get fully ill-tempered. The droid, having given the merest tiny flecks of ovaltine for the last 6 days the cunt, has now fully set in. Why oh why can't it just begin with a terrifying haemorrhage from the off, so there's none of this 'Oh PLAINLY I'm diffed' bollocks? Daft, I call it.

Gin & O I now feel all warm and fuzzy about toddlerdom. And Ski's happines has always made me feel warm and fuzzy. It's all so lovely and I just KNOW that we'll all get there

After yesterday's telling off I have just taken my Pregnacare. I thought about why I hadn't been taking Folic Acid and I think it boils down to this: secretly, I don't believe there's a single fucking thing any of us can do to influence a)getting diffed or b)having a healthy babe (short of laying off the crack obviously). It just seems so random - you can have months of having the sex at the right time, with all the stars aligned, full of needles as a pincushion and rattling with every herbal pill going, and nothing. And then someone else can have one random shag, and despite having PCOS and shagging an old man my own personal proclivity obviously BOOM, up the spout and no mistake.

I am by nature exTREEEEEEEEMely cynical and don't really believe anyone about anything. I walk around with an entire bucket of salt hanging off my forearm to be taken every time anyone opens their mouth. Charming, I know. Any roads up, as my darling Northern friend says, I just can't quite bring myself to believe Folic Acid, or needles, or herbs, or anything short of maintaining a basic level of health three percentage points above actual decomposition/living downwind of Chernobyl, will affect fertility or the baby's development.

Disclaimer: I know I am being unreasonable, which is why I am now keeping the box of Pregnacare near the toothpaste

LOZZEEEEEEER bundles to ground and motorboats loz's buzzwams. Ahem, sorry about that, forgot myself for a minute.

Hi curly

I must confess I caved but only got a very very very VERY faint line, so faint I might even have imagined it. I knew it was a waste of time as the corresponding OPKs are pretty useless too, but I really do have the breaking point of a kit kat (this is when WFH on a Thursday backfires on me)

Anyway, I know what this is. I have to cancel needles later because lady said that if I don't get temp drop then its best not to have any. So I am pretty sure this is just droids way of fucking with my head AND depriving me of my needles sesh. As soon as I make the call it will come. Pah.

stuff the shyness jetfuelledlittlegem. Are you telling me you have a faint line, not drawn on with red biro, and no temp drop?

banger I agree with you. All the ickle Harlem crackbaybees are not filled with FA, B-vits, organic vegetables and created within the confines of marriage when "a mummy and daddy love each other very much".

A cursory glance around the ESHes will reveal that getting pissed, having a shag, chain smoking and being a twat might work.

I know there's a whole crowd of "but what if...?" wrt the whole FA thing - however there are unfortunately a million things which can go wrong with pregnancy - lack of FA is just one. A small one. I think Boots are "'avin a larf" - I wonder how much FA is sold in Mogadishu

rocket - SCREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM Pls to to post pic of piss-stick for esh-examination?

Nice to have you back head all that black lace was getting a bit too sexy overpowering ;) I sort of agree with the not being able to influence getting diffed but I think you CAN influence the healthy baby bit. Well what I mean is that if I DID have a wee one that was unwell somehow I would rather not have to deal with guilt over it being something I had or hadn't done IYSWIM. I have SUCH a cheerful outlook don't I? Perhaps I should borrow the black outfit.

Curlysue check and check. But is nothing NOTHING

knew I could rely on you SKi . But will take the damned pills anyone I s'pose

Anyway: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! I think you'll find, young Rocket, that a line is a line is a line is a line!

Post picture IMMEDIATELY.

Now!

Do it!

Cling on Rocket, we'll pull you out. Thank Gawd I took my corsets off: fucking restricting they were

um I'll have to dig it out of the bin. But really I think after 10 mins it is invalid anyway and also i may well have hallucinated it.