Wizard are playing and the tinsel is up. Come into the BESHmas office party for some inappropriate photocopying and brief, regretful relationships!

[AriesWithBellsOn]

Evening BESHes! Don your tinsel and Christmas tree earrings and dance into my office for some rocking around the Christmas Tree. First one to snog Brett from Accounts wins a glass of warm Country Manor and some Christmas snacks. May we getting SWI over the Festive Season and announce our wins in the New Year

In you come! Festive newcomers welcome - just search for and fill in the BESHtionnaire and submit for approval.

Yes, I'm in an old house. No central heating. Brrr.

Brr rie I feel for you...do you have a slanket?
baubs I want to say congratulations about the sechs...seems weird though! But you know what I mean...that sounds like a luffly evening and quality time with GP.

I have seen slankets! They look luffly!

They do indeed look luffly. I am a massive fan of the sofa blanket and I have a lovely one from Ikea and also a nice red fleecy one for colder days. It is not unknown for me to have a duvet on the couch either.
I have held off buying a slanket though. I think I would get laughed at.

I lived in a house with no heating once (had a storage heater in the living room though) and that was awful. I slept in fleece pyjamas and lived alone at the time so no man to warm me up. I was too paranoid to use the coal fire.

We bought my sister one after seeing it on Big Bang for Christmas...her house wad chilly and my nephew was tiny. Came in handy!

We lived here for 2 1/2 years without heating before putting some in. I used to stay late at work, and then go and read in Waterstones till 10pm, just to put off going into the loathsome cold of my house. You have my sympathies, fRiezing

Nice name adaptation Northelicious!
Right now, I have been on another Fred for some time...Aibu to feel miffed with someone who has come in and introduced herself and admitted to lying to the GP about how long they've been ttc? Is that poor MN code?

YANBU, Faithy. That really peeves me.

Do you mind me asking which fred? I promise I won't go and cause trouble!

Oh and I do use the fire. I am a dab hand at lighting fires, though I wish it was a log burner! I also have a halogen heater - they're really good.

I've been away for the weekend and haven't caught up with the past 2 days of fred yet but before I do can I have a me me me moan? Pointless question as I am about to anyway

Droid came one/two days early. I had droid rage and I think scared KFZK a bit. So that is it for us unassisted now. I start Letrozole tomorrow, and try that for a few months before moving to IVF. That's 13 cycles of perfectly timed fucking and [relatively] clean living with nothing to show for it. I want to have a proper meltdown after a full year of being good, with booze, fags and possibly drugs, involving throwing up in the gutter and embarrassing myself in front of strangers. But I will probably just have a cry into my pillow instead.

And all this when I had to spend the weekend with my cute toddler niece and smile for everyone. I am not in the best frame of mind right now. I am off to kick some fluffy bunnies or something to rid myself of some of the rage. I will catch up on fred later. Apologies for self-indulgent post.

That pisses me off too. Though fair enough if you've got an actual oncrete problem, like erectile dysfunction, that you know you will need help to overcome. But people who just want a baybee and think it will get them one faster... Well they can fuck righ off. In fact, I might email MNHQ about the fact that they include a quote from someone advising it on their Conception pages.

sorry euro that is wankshitting bollocky arsecuntery. Especially if you have had to spend the weekend looking happy. Major rage and frustration totally understandable.
What is this Letrozole that you are trying next? And what better time of year to indulge yourself with a weekend of booze than Xmas? Perhaps give the fags and drugs a miss, but treat yourself to a decent piss up.

eur well entitled to be me me me...can you not have a month off to enjoy yourself before starting? Or does it have to be clean living for a while before starting the leteozole?
The comment is on the brooking no argument Fred. Thing is they're a luffly bunch super positive and I don't want to start a bun fight there. I just think lying about three months of ttc is unreasonable. We waited the full year! Why shouldn't they?! Also, you don't know that you won't win a baybee in that time...80% will conceive within one year and 90% within a year.... the rest become BESHes

DO IT NORTHPOLE! Dare you.

Hello Euro. Sorry you feel so shit :(. Sometimes there are no words so I'll just give you a manly arm punch and drop of something medicinal.

Seeing a GP after three months is ridiculous. I can understand it after six months if you are older, but three months is nonsense. Some people seem to expect to get diffed in five minutes. Three months would be pretty bloody quick in my opinion. Most people should expect it to take them six months, then if it happens quicker they will be pleasantly surprised. After six months it becomes a pain in the arse but educated people know that it is still a normal amount of time to have been trying.

What on earth do they think they will achieve by seeing a GP? Does she want the doctor to inseminate her or something?!!! Seems that people assume if they don't get diffed immediately there is something wrong with them.

I really liked the brooking thread. I still think it's very funny. But there's only so much brooking you can do before getting despondent. I lasted two months before slinking away.

What the intro said:

I came off the pill in March [but my GP thinks it was November, natch]

Not sure when GP advice was actually sought but does this mean she's only been.ttc for a month?!

Yes I can't keep up. I was mega brooking, then found out about MSB's ishooes. Tried to go back...can't do it. Won't leave..just fade away.

Wait, no, trying since March so 9 months. Still

Nah, I think it means she told the GP she had stopped taking the pill in November the previous year, when in fact she only stopped this March. I had a little look over there and see that she has also managed to waste taxpayers money on unnecessary cd21 tests by starting "investigations" early. Of course we could all have the wrong end of the stick and there could be stuff we don't know though. But it does piss me off when people treat babies as something you should be able to have right when you want one, and of the gender you want too. I have posted, on more than one occasion, that conception is not like "ordering out of the Argos catalogue".

You watch. Only a matter of time before she comes in here saying we're bitches. That hasn't happened for a while actually.

Not since I've been a BESH! secretly rather excited
I'm not sure she's really a brooker type, coming in with the negativity about the DH's ex straight off, time will tell. Did that sound harsh?
So who's watching crap factor?

Don't watch it.

Euro I feel your pain. It's utterly shit. And sometimes it's just so fucking hard to stay positive isn't it. You're entitled to have a bad day. Sometimes I think having a bad day actually does you good because it's impossible to be smiley smiley all the time. We have a couple more unassisted cycles and then it's IVF.

Brrrrr Rie I'm feeling cold just thinking about no central heating. Fancy some lesbo erotic wrestling to warm up?

My mum & dad have been this afternoon. My dad was really ill last Christmas so it's lovely that he's here and ok. He helped me put the tree up and I shed a little tear when they'd gone because I was so worried about him last year and now everything is ok