I am jolly well going to get pregnant this month and I'll brook no argument.

[allhailtheaubergine]

Who's in?

Funnily enough I didn't suspect a troll. I suspected a nasty piece of work with the intellectual capacity and emotional quotient of a cow pat, who was so insecure she had to brag and say horrible things in order to make herself feel good. When people started taking real exception to what she said, that was when she got really foul, like what she said to lissie - it was like a defence thing. She is honestly the most awful person I have ever encountered. What she must be like in RL I shudder to think.

I must go and sniff my sweet peas to calm down. All this stress is not good for my unborn child Luna.

Bloofer; you da man.

I'll say no more...apart from it was not only the insensitivity, the unbelievable cruelty of the posts, but the woman's sheer inability to punctuate that brought tears to my eyes.

While I'm here, huge congrats aubers. Following the exploits of you rat smackers is keeping me sane during a scary few days (I'm on the freak out thread so won't bore you with details).

Yes, deep breathes.

There was just something about all the 'oh yes my life is perfect' and I am just off to have a baby and can feel contractions that made me think YEAH RIGHT

Oh I didn't believe the labour thing for one second. She said it to be hurtful - "Oh look I am in labour and about to produce a child. YOU'RE NOT." However she had that particular gem deleted before I saw it

Ok, I lied when I said I wasn't going to think about it any more. MistressofPemberley - you are so right about the punctuation. There is something so much more irritating about vile, offensive opinions being expressed in appalling prose. Oh, and welcome to the thread.

I didn't think she was a troll either - I agree with Aries. I would also sniff my sweetpeas for comfort but I seem to have somehow managed to grow a variety this year which look wonderful but have virtually no smell. My fault for going for a 25 plants for £cheap offer rather than having the enjoyment of actually picking out the varieties I want to grow and doing it from seed. As a result, I am currently sitting here with a big bunch of sweetpeas in a vase and a Yankee Candle in sweetpea flavour . Next year I am going to ignore the fact that I have no space for growing plants on and grow masses of lovely scented sweetpeas from seed again.

You will definitely have no space at all for growing sweet peas because of all the toys and prams and baby chairs about the place

Approximately 12 X 6 inches Aries.

I went to look at the thread. I do think troll though. It's just so sniggery and designed to hurt. No one is that inhuman.

I am having a strange day full of portents and things. I saw the most astonishing thing earlier - a turtle in the harbour. She was pottering about the rocks, then raised up a head and a flipper, and swam serenely away. And now I come on the thread to find you all talking about Sweet Peas which have the most enormous significance to me. Strange.

How is everyone doing? You look blooming.

aubers, are you on drugs? A turtle? In this country? Or maybe it was one which is lost in which case you need to contact the RSPCA immediately

Which harbour? Can you give me the region?

No no, I live outside UK. We do get turtles here. Still pretty awesome to have seen one while doing a bit of shopping though

I am on nothing stronger than Folic Acid.

Sorry. The fact that you posted about a leisurely breakfast with your husband and showing him The Stick at about 4am ought to have given me a clue.

Am still too stunned and shocked by that thread to form a coherent thought. The thought of all the blooming beauties on this thread is cheering me right up.

Anyone want to borrow this catalogue of TENS machines?

Is it too late to rock up on your thread when already 11DPO

I confess i have lurked on here for days ejoying bathing in the warm glow of optimism. I'm at work and really hungry so obviously I'm pregnant. All that inplanting and suchlike takes lots of calories.

9 is my lucky number so clearly I am going to be pg on cycle 9 of ttc, it all makes sense.

wtf is inplanting??? sorry.

The only turtles I observe are wind up bath ones. I did see a red squirrel on the way to work recently which was nice.

Implanting is what you'll be doing right this minute, young Jaggy my lass. like, 8-12DPO (ish), bundle of cells burrowing in all toasty warm. Oh yes.

Also, I HAVE NEVER SEEN A RED SQUIRREL! That's shocking ain't it?

i like it here! Just what I needed to hear.

The squirrels tend to run out across the road in front of me, a bit worried I might squish one.

I have seen a red squirrel. It was on Brownsea Island in Pool Harbour. I was 14.

Just thought I ought to let you know.

Jaggy, are you from overrrrrr the borrrrrrrrderrrrrrrr?

Ooooh yes, Aries - I had forgotten that by sweetpea time next year I would have a baby who will probably be crawling by then and so will probably be a bit of a menace to loads of loo roll insides full of tiny sweetpea plants . I'd better think about plants that can go straight out instead as I will be on maternity leave and so I understand will have absolutely loads of time for gardening and may in fact embark on a total garden redesign project.

Aubers - it is all dead portentious round here, with all the turtles and sweetpeas and what-not. I am pinning a lot of hope on you, as thread-starter, getting updiffed being a Very Good Sign for everyone on the thread (as well, obviously, for you ). I was rather disappointed not to get my BFP last month on the thread I started. I am not leaving this thread until I am pregnant, even if I am the last one here posting only to myself.

Jaggy - welcome to the thread. I have usually tested by day 11 so I am impressed by your resiliance. I think 9 months of trying is very portentious and a clear sign that this will be your month as well.

I've never seen a mountain either. You know those proper pointy ones wearing little snow-hats? Never seen one

It's a good job I'm Great With Child or I'd be in a fearful nark.

Och Aye Aries

I have sworn off POAS - I chart and just wait for the temp plummet (which of course won't happen this month). I did crack and P about half the time though due to imaginary sypmtoms!

Oooooh, I once saw a red squirrel too. It was in Scotland. It was years ago, though. I think there might be one of those new-fangled black squirrels wot I have been reading about living in our garden. The thing is about the size of a cat. When it jumps from branch to branch they practically touch the floor.

What in the name of Zita West is a black squirrel?!

Black squirrels sound evil