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.

Bring your own gas mask

@ stinky trumps. Even the cat is giving me dirty looks

OOo sooooo much babydust in here tonight...

We have already managed to do the sechs and are sitting in bed.

I feel old!

[trumps in direction of Dor for daring to mention babydust]

Congrats!

I shall focus on developing flatulence for the next 4 days till testing. Am v proud of my self for going for a run again tonight, but perhaps now spoiling things by having a curry and glass of wine. Oh well.

bugs, I'm in the big northern city that's not Liverpool. Close enough for a jaunt to Chester zoo!

Given the mention of babydust, would now be a good time to add signature tickers to the end of our posts...

I thought not.

Congratulations, jools! Brilliant news!

The curry should help with developing flatulence, hils.

No sechsing here tonight, after an enormous row (conducted on a street corner in furious whispers as several of AMNH's colleagues strolled past). He has gone to the pub with them. I have returned home simmering with suppressed rage. Why on earth am I ttc with someone I could happily clobber senseless?

Today is a fucking shit day, and I can't wait for it to be over.

We had (phone) rowing on the street tonight too, Norf. . Sometimes I really want to throw in the towel walk the plank and start afresh bait the sharks.

ICs are indeed Internet Cheapies...TOM and I obviously won't be needing them anymore. . PM me and I'll mail them off to you (had been looking forward to surprising you with them but you cheekily left off the return address!)

Congrats J&B !

Northey we had a big row last week that started about the toilet paper! and I thought much the same...I think it's natural to row and natural to question your circumstances when you do. Hope you were able to resolve things.
I feel rough :( going into work mostly so I can go to Dad's hospital appt about his prostate ca treatment options. Not sure I'll last til lunch!
j&b how you feeling this morning?! :)

Slept pointedly ad furiously on opposite sides of the bed hammock, but had a cuddle and a sechsing this morning. Basically he was ten minutes late to meet me for something. On other occasions I would have even exasperated but basically calm. I have no idea why I flipped out so much yesterday :o Sorry you had rowing as well, lau :(

feefee, I hope your dad's appointment with the ship's surgeon goes well. Is the roughness still from the uti? Those infections are fuckers.

wooo! so much bountiful BESH nekkidness! ---- .

Thank you all so much my lufflies. It is so massively appreciated.

I am feeling menkul, but in a nice way. I wish I didn't have a work meeting this morning/unavoidable work to do this afternoon. But is probably good that I don't have option to dick around on google all day.

Sorry about the rowing. JJ and I had a phenomenal row in (far too quiet) pub a month or two back. We were the couple obviously hissing prolonged vitriol at each other and smiling too widely and casually at anyone who passed our table [cringe]. TTC, particularly once the anxiety has set in, just puts such an additional pressure on relationships. Hope things resolve soon. Here's a double dose of rum rations in the interim.

...Definitely promising!

Hahahaha at the pub rowing, jewelly. That rings so true.

Congrats J&B

This will be my nekkid dancing premier at 8am on a Friday morning. Well finally a use for the good old nipple tassles (that sounds quite scary if I am honest).

Well done for the shapping last night, this morning etc, yea wenches! How good was the zoo, dot? Northerly ladies, I love Chester, but am nowhere near there sadly.

No more menkulling here, spotting has started, waiting for flow so I can ring the clinic for cd3 scanning please don't be during my appraisal... Sorry about rowing in the pub and on street corners. SB and I did rowing in a nice italian restaurant about things TTC related, when it was totally packed and the tables were about a foot apart. Definitely interesting/off putting to the people next to us. It all started with the famous red wine deluge... But last night we went to the pub and did drowning of sorrows and cuddling in a corner. It was nice. Despite SB saying he knew my period was coming because I was (and I quote) completely unreasonable. Well fanks.

Sorry about your dad, faith. And only do as much work as you can manage. I hope the UTI clears up soon.

Right I'll get dressed and get on with a bit of scrubbing the decks, as yea wenches all stayed up late fuming, dancing nekkid or maybe post sechs cuddling.

Congrats Jewels! Nekkid dancing ahoy me hearties! Went to see a play last night with much nekkid dancing, must have been in your honour.

I haven't stopped menkulling since my BFP (used nearly the whole box of ICs now), if you need to vent there is a (v quiet) PESH thread. Hope you are right and this portends a spate of differs.

Droid turned up, now psyching myself up for calling the clinic...
Chilli snacks sound like the perfect reward!

FartWatch update:

Still lots of wind (feeling very bloated) but not as stinky .

Not really sure if I have any other potential symptoms so far not for lack of looking.

Temperature is still up which is good, I'd anticipate a fall in the next 48 hrs if droid is going to visit.

[kicks lemons droid and twirls tassles one more time for jewels]

Farts sound promising, cavey :) When is droid actually due?

Geez. I never thought I'd spend my time hoping for uncontrollable farting.. The wonderful journey of TTC.

I shall save it all up and blow it all in the direction of drizzles droid . What's the cd3 scanning for?

Womble pains still on going. Clearly a sign of diffedness.

I'm a northwest girl born and bred bugs, but lived a long while in Scotland (and collected the ginger hairy jock) but came back about 5 yrs ago. I quite like it here too! What's Huddersfield like? Mums family are from Yorkshire (but don't let on), in fact from a small town not a million miles from you, but I don't really know the area that well

Droid is due Monday/Tuesday.

I did not know farting was a symptom - clearly SB has been diffed ever since he moved in... That must be why it is not working. Cd3 scanning is checking everything is calm before IUI...

We had a mini Break to Chester a few years ago. It was luffly and the zoo was ace. Only down side was we accidently picked half term. Never again.
Realised this morning I have underestimated how many cycles we have been ttc...tis more like 29. Not particularly helpful news...
Thank goodness it's lunch time and I can give up now. Lunch with old colleague then time to collapse. Might pop and see Dsis and DN. He's just got into.Toy Story so he'll probably show me how to fly!
Not sure I'd notice a difference with flatulence due to my ibs but will keep an eye out.
Dad's appt was fine. Prognosis is pretty good -60% chance of cancer free but even without treatment would be 10 years before it really affected him! Will start his radiotherapy in next few weeks I think.

Did he have radiotherapy last time, faith? How did he find it then? And three cheers and a ration of rum all round to celebrate the excellent prognosis!