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.

Off to the tub for me for a scrub gonna have a bath!
Cakes sound yummy...not sure I'd resist the urge bugs.
Aw my friend just got engaged, how ace :) getting wed in July. I was thinking hmm that'll be a drunken night MSB was more about me being diffed.....suppose I just don't get my hopes up. Am such a cow though, I know she won't want to wait to ttc after getting married and all I could think was bet she gets diffed right away, how awful if she does before me
I am a bad person
Any hints or tips on how to minimise this?!

Tips to minimise? Let it all out on here, surely? (and don't call me Shirley)

Ha I get the reference
I feel better for the soak. I realised in the bath I wouldn't wish a long/tough ttc journey on anyone and if she gets diffed straight off, great for her. I just hate the start of a new cycle, Here we go again! I'll be ok when we can start the sechsing again and be proactive!
bugs you still resisting that cake?!

Hey BESHs. I hope I'm not sticking my oar in, but a couple of months ago a close friend went skiing with her DH. Ages before she had told me they were going to start ttc once they had been on said trip and she's ten years younger than me and v healthy so I started getting myself tied up in knots over it and thinking bad thoughts.

Eventually I said to her, I know this is an awkward thing to bring up but I know you are thinking of ttc and chances are it may happen quite quickly for you. Just wanted to say that I will probably find that a bit difficult for a bit and I don't want you to be upset by that. Please don't be afraid to tell me if and when it happens, I might need a few weeks but please know that I will also be jolly pleased for you and love you a lot.

She said it had occurred to her as she knows we had been ttc and was relieved I'd said it. It was so nice and felt pretty liberating. I can't say I'd be comfortable saying that to all my friends but it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be and felt like a weight off my shoulders.

Anyway love and gin to all. I'll take my sticky beak out now!

Fairy snuff blondie. I will probably do that with the friend I mentioned. I told her when we were both wasted at another friend's hen do we were struggling with ttc so I think she'd be cool with me saying it. Being the Jesus-loving folk we are, I have prayed with MSB about it all :)

Hahah Faithy that last comment made me giggle!

Bless him, he's doing me a hot water bottle now!

Heh. I have just sent The Mister to put my wheat bag i the microwave! I am off to bed. Night night!

Must buy new wheat bag. Far superior to hot water bottle but smokey joes can't be choosers
Night all.

Avast me wenches, time for grubbing and scrubbing the planks!

Having gone to bed by 10pm I am actually awake now! As I was a few times in between) so still feeling a bit knackered, but a lot more coherent than yesterday, which has got to be a bonus!

Oh and I found telling people about the shit that is TTC helpful, although there has been a fair bit of coaching the concerned and clueless "how to deal with lemon over this". My ground rules are, if I feel like it I own up to our TTC journey when questioned directly (and that happens remarkably often!) or when I fail to deal well w pg-announcements. And if you get out the "I am happy for you but this is hard for us, because we have been wanting it so badly for such a long time" before sobbing, it works quite well in my experience. Then, as you may remember from my rant at the beginning I tend to explain that I don't need tips on O-sticks, positions and the quality of my SB's semen... And in fact I prefer no questioning without me bringing the subject up (because it is either too much already - and I don't want to talk about it - or it is actually in the background a litlle - so I don't want to be reminded).

Jealous of wheat bags - but I did break our microwave so perhaps should replace that first... Glad you're feeling better faith! Although for a moment I thought Jesus was doing you a water bottle and I was even more impressed

Morning pirates.

drizzle, what's grubbing?

After hours a couple of minutes googling high progesterone, ghj went a spoilt it all by saying, "well, it could be because you're pregnant". Not what my menkul needs to hear. I don't really understand the fish, but I think this might be a good time for kipper round the chops.

But anyway...

Why are pirates called pirates?

They just arrrggh!

Eye fank ewe.

Have some kippers (not that I know what they're for, but ignore that) - and me finks grub=food and surely grubbing=breakfasting... But that may be meeeee. Have some Rum-Tea with yer fish!

btw when is droid/manic poas-ing due?

So me meant that it was time for getting up, eating and then to work...

Agh, i likes it - shall incorporate into my new lingo.

Droid due Monday/tues. will not test before then (oh, the confidence of 8dpo)... Bit shit really because I'm on nights this weekend, which Obv confuses the stupid droid as it all gets a bit random.

Have decided that high prog is Good News. I have, presumably, ov-ed. I shall think no more about it..

Me finks high prog is GOOD. Very good ov-ing, well done you. And you know what if yer diffed, you will find out... When a beauty of a baybeen win lands in your lap with an eye-patch and cutlesses at the ready!

The grubbing is done aboard this ship, onto the scrubbing...

Btw where are yea - lazy landlubbers? (All of you except sinking)

A baybeen - ?!?!
Well it makes sense when I dreamt I gave birth to a chicken, ready for roasting, the other night...

Arrrr, I be here!

I be on holiday this week, well off work not away anywhere! We're going to work on the house and, of course, watching the Cheltenham Festival!

High progesterone is definitely a good sign, though I don't believe it is, by itself, an indicator of pregnancy. If it stays high, then yes you're likely to be pregnant, but without having regular blood tests, who knows!

In Cave-menkulling News, I have a stabbing pain low down on my left side. It's been there since about 5am so of course my thoughts have leapt to "implantation"!

Ahoy there, me hearties. lemony have grubbed already, no worries about that, its the imminent scrubbing I can't quite summon up the energy for.

Weekend bike adventures were lovely - gentle pootle up the thames, overnight in windsor, and then through the chiltern foothills to oxford in time for a hasty pizza and a sunday night train home. Nice friends came with, and it was sunny. All good.

In ttcworld (like seaworld but without the sharks), still no jizz analysis, and still no day 21 feedback. think I am c 11 days DPO further to very early O - no symptoms. No real menkul but feel slightly in limbo about it all. Although now its occurred to me am seriously considering weeing on something after JJ leaves the boat. Actually, that is now the plan - count me in for a kipper.

How are you all doing today?

Arrrr, you mangy sea dogs.

I am ignoring job hunt and eating pineapple, vaguely wondering what it was that it was meant to do during ttc.

I am tired today :(

Of course I had to do a pregnancy test today... just to make sure before I have the hycosy tomorrow. Of course it was negative. No surprise really as the droid is in full flow!

I could happily curl up under my desk for a snooze right now!

Make a bit of room dot and I'll join you under there. I am shattered. I got some job-news today, which basically means I am job-hunting as well. And I had a really restless night sleep. So I went out and spoiled myself with coffee out and far too nice flowers for my MiL. Do you lot think SB will notice if I get her dodgy station ones and keep these lovely ones for our house?

Oh and I officially don't do symptoms or testing, but... I have a broken (now nearly fixed) bone and have a check up on it tomorrow, which might involve an X-ray. Droid is due any time between tomorrow and Sunday. I am knackered, sore-boobed, and clearly no pg (as we did the sechsing only once, due to brokenness). Should I use one of my nearly out of date cheapy sticks tomorrow?

Bugger about the job news, lemon :(

Yes, yes, use them up. Or if you want to save them, plead ignorance at the hospital and I daresay they will test for you.