Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Find your sea legs and sail on the seven seas in the BESH Pearl

[HaveALittleFaithBaby]

Argh, and be welcome to our new pirate Fred. Be finding yourself a parrot and a wooden leg and hop on board for the trip of a lifetime. Argh.
If ye be new and wantin' to join our motley crew, be filling in the BESHtionnaire application below. Argh.

1. Do you like gin? (This is compulsory, you must say 'Yes')

2. Men - are you a gold digger or a cradle snatching cougar?

3. Baybee-making - to put a baybee in your tumtum, which hole do you use:
   a) weewee
   b) poopoo
   c) foofoo
   d) none, you just pray to the baby Jebus.

That's a "c", right there...

4. Testing - when someone wonders if they should test for updiff (pg), do you:
   a) bellow 'POAS!' at them non-stop and punch them repeatedly in the kidneys till they wet themselves anyway.
   b) Sprinkle them with babydust and send them hugs and kisses on lickle baby angel wings.

5. Is R2D2:
   a) an adorable robot from Star Wars.
   b) the source of all evil.

6. Number of pets?

7. Inappropriate (read: weird) crush of shame?

George Michael. He'd be off the drugs and on the straight and narrow ('scuse pun) if we ever met...

8. Lesbian crush?

9. What are your views on camping?

10. How much money have you spent on sticks you then urinate on?
    i) Oh nothing, I'll probably catch first time and then get the doctor to confirm it.
    ii) Over 100 quid
    iii) I opened an account on ebay solely for the purpose of purchasing sticks

Finally, tell us how you found the BESH and why you'd like to join us pliz.

Arrrr, I be starving after a two hour walk up a hill (they will NOT refuse me clomid on grounds of heaviness). Be they selling hard tack laced with weevils in Waitrose?

What be you writing, lemon?

Metal fucker. Sorry F

Where's everyone else? I'm sticking with POAS on the 20th.

Metal fucker arrived here too :(

Shitebags.

Have some rum. That'll make things better more blurry.

Walk the plank you droidal creatures (and no sinking I think it's unfair on the fishes to feed them thus!)

Me be writing an assignment (as part of a course, in a desperate attempt to keep my job after the summer...) But first draft done, ship ahoy! So me be going outside to try and not be fat and be cheery as well...

Goodwinds to yeall!

CD32 here, but considering last cycle was about 70 days I really have no idea at all when it would be reasonable to POAS.

I feel your pain northey. After 2 35 day cycles, I've decided this is now my regular cycle. Ignoring the 100+ cycles prior... Poor form ovaries, poor form.

as a person who is rather clueless on these matters would taking clomid stimulate ovulation sooner and effectively create a shorter cycle?
I went shopping after the razor blades attack. Spent plenty of galleons, feel happier for it. Walked passed a family in the park with their little boy on the swings, no more than 6 months old. Couldn't help thinking how much I want that :( since it's cd1 I am dwelling. Only comfort is now I seem to be settled in to a regular cycle lucky me!

Dunno. Didn't for me- for me it was the lazer that seems to have made the difference (eventually)

Am bored. Also, like drizzle, am meant to be working. Trying to create a daft poster on a topic I spent a yr researching, but don't really understand. But that's just between us BESH and the parrots (and rat)' right?

Whatcha buy faithy?

You're secrets safe with us sinking, we'll take it to Davey Jones' locker!
I bought random/boring stuff, replacement toothbrush heads, tampons grr, cotton wool, face mask am zit central, hamster bedding and bedside lamps to replace the ones we lost. We've been managing with an up lighter in the bedroom for ages. Now we'll be able to have softer lighting in the bedroom and the up lighter in the living room :)

Sounds productive. By procrastinating alllll day, I have done nothing. Nothing work wise, nothing fun, because I'm ment to be doing work. I have however drunk a lot of tea. not helping the cutting out caffeine for baybee resolution

Going to a pub quiz tonight though. Could be fun.

Clomid is "supposed" to make you ovulate sooner, it has worked for me. My average cycle was 77 days (though one cycle was about 8 months!) but I'm now down to about 35 days.

course no drug is good fur everyone...
I've been gorging on junk food Ann afternoon. Not sure it's helped much.

Junk food always helps. Personally, I've eaten a share bag of sensations crisps- goat cheese and chilli. Theyre as minging as the name would suggest, but ghj likes them. And now they're in my belly.

Today I've eaten half a pack of custard creams, brie and bacon sarnie, bag of chocolate covered fudge, half a giant bag of doritoes with salsa and half a bag of toffee popcorn. Goat cheese and chilli sounds, um, yummy?!

Oh God, the bliss of custard creams. My favourite biscuit.

I have had a loathsomely exemplary day of brown seedy bread, dried aprixots, celery sticks, beef stroganoff and brown rice. But I am having Maltesers tonight. Myfitnesspal says I can :)

Sadly they were gluten free custard creams, not the same but a fair substitute. God bless Asda.

Did I kill Fred? Are ou all out having a R life?!

I am busy having a RL. I am at a concert. In fact I gave been singing in the first half. Am watching the orchestra and MNetting at the same time. Proper multi-tasking!

I have been busy looking for somewhere to go for a romantic few days away in April. Any recommendations for European cities in which to wander round holding hands an occasionally stopping to eat ice cream/drink coffee/admire architecture?

Northey, I can heartily recommend Venice and Prague.
We did Milan a few years ago but tbh I wasn't that impressed. The basilica and The Last Supper were amazing, but that was it.

Venice was by far and away the best, an amazing city.

Ooh get you dottie!
Um, I dunno northus. Need to identify somewhere nice that has not been ruined by hen dos/stag dos. Always fancied Rome myself.

We went to Venice last time, and had an amazing time. So wherever we go now kind of needs to live up to it, which is what makes it so difficult to find somewhere! What is Prague like? Does it pass the hand-in-hand romantic wandering test?

We've both been to Rome quite a lot, faithy, but are not ruling it out!

Anyone been to Vienna or Salzburg?