I know I don't post here any more really, cos I don't feel I have the right to anymore, but I would just like to say this - We are not a quiche, or at least I don't think so. We're 30 TTC, and more than that, we're for those who are in their 30s and struggling to conceive and who are BESH as a result. Or at least that was always the deal when I were a lass, etc.
When we tried letting in any 30s TTCers we ended up being the stop off for any instadiffer in their 30s with a fondness for gin who would rock up and diff 15 minutes later, leading to fucking heartbreak for those who had been trying forever. Ditto when we tried letting in youngerds (though we have a fondness for the olderds).
I don't believe that makes us a clique. Because we let in anyone who really is in their 30s and struggling. There is not a more welcome group of women on the face of the internet in that regard. I'd hate for people to look at the list of cliques and think "Oh, I'd love to join them but I can't cos they're a clique".
But those parameters - the over 30s AND struggling - WERE for a reason, and were agonised over Back In the Day more than once. And the reason was protection, of hearts that were already pretty much at the edge of what they could take.
So, yeah. Quiche my arse.