The BESH Eurovision Song Contest eva

[eurochick]

Asseyez-vous mes amies and ready yourselves for the BESH Eurovision contest ever. Get ready with your Central European fashion, transvestites and inability to sing anything in tune. Get ready to rip your skirts off and leave your other halves no option but to make their mind up (do you see what I did there?) to get down to some swi and do your best not to think of Terry Wogan at any point in the proceedings. Finally, get ready to yell ?nul points? at the evil Droid should it dare to make an appearance.

Newbies, approach in high euro-camp mode, find and complete the BESHtionnaire to let us judge whether you are cynical and menkul enough to join us.

I've toyed with the idea of a low GI diet cave. I'm a normal bmi, am pretty active and think I eat pretty well, but have a weakness for crisps. I suspect they are a bad food group for pcosers especially. But, I'd imagine the bad food is the fun food, so I'm playing ignorant and just half heartedly cutting down my caffeine and upping the exercise. Let me know how you get on- every little helps...

Sat in gp waiting room. Fingers crossed they can refer me for ivf. I still think its really weird the clinic doesn't do this, so am a bit nervous the gp will just give me a look.

Well... I needn't have worried, but was a pretty pointless appointment. I barely had time to sit down. GP not surprised about having to refer, but said I shouldn't have been told to make an appointment - normally they just get sent a letter asking them do refer me on. Maybe things will go a bit quicker as I've missed out the clinic letter typing to posting to being read and acted on...

The only thing she said was "prepare yourself for a wait" but wouldn't elaborate on that... Hmmm.

Anyone know how I can find out how many nhs cycles I'm entitled to?

What's your PCT, hilarity? God knows hat is happening with the move to Clinical Commissionig Groups and what hae you, but for now I would just start by googling the fertility policy of your old pct.

What book did you get, cavey? I have a low gi for PCOSers book too, but have never managed to get into it. I vaguely thought that just losing weight would be enough, and did that by other means, but from reading a few thugs recently I have also started to think more about the need to balance hormones and prevent insulin spikes and so on.

I've got Colette Harris' "Ultimate PCOS Handbook", which has lots of good advice and menu plans, etc in. I cried reading the section on depression last night as it all rang so true. Interestingly there is a school of thought that PCOS might cause depression, rather than women getting depressed generally about the condition and its side effects.

I bought "The Low GL Diet Made Easy". It's got a 3 week menu planner which will be useful.

I've always had a very sweet tooth, so I guess I'm going to have to learn to curb that, or satisfy it in other ways.

The Colette Harris book is great. I learned a lot about the condition from that.

I try to eat low GI (although it has slipped a bit recently). I don't follow any particular set plan but try to avoid white bread/pasta/rice and refined sugar. If I do have something sugary, like chocolate dried fruit, I try to have some protein (nuts) with it, which takes down the overall glycaemic load the body needs to deal with.

Whenever I slip and have to get back into it, i find breaking the sugar dependancy hard, but once it is done, it gets much easier.

I don't think I have ovulated yet. Which is annoying as I had my LH surge on Saturday and day 14 was yesterday. I needn't have rushed over to the clinic at stupid o'clock on Sunday monring for the IUI. Grrr. Stoopid body. It has followed the 14/16 alternativng pattern for months!

How annoying euro! I don't think I've laid my egg yet either. Might lure MSB back to bed again after dinner..,
Now I don't have PCOS but I do a balanced low GI diet has its benefits. I can well believe it directly causes depression since your hormones are all over the shop. I'm trying to get back on the sensible eating waggon after falling off so drastically the last few weeks. Still too sniffly to exercise but have eaten ok today resisted a three pack of creme eggs in the co-op so I'm off to a good start!

can I join in here again? I was on the Besh threads about a million years ago, but decamped to the Hut while the doctors were prodding and poking me and trying to find out why I kept failing in my attempts to win a baybee....
I'm allegedly all fixed now after they stabbed me three times in the belly and stuck cameras and things in me.

Hi queenie, perhaps you could c&p your BESHtionnaire? So the BESHes get an idea of what you're about? and what colour your walls are?!

In the interest of fun i'm going to leave my original answers in but put updates in bold because some things have changed since I first did it.

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

I think i must own shares in Bombay Sapphire by now. The sloe gin i made was very nice....we were serenading the radiator by about 1.30pm on Boxing Day.

i've now moved on to Hendricks. it's expensive and I kept the first bottle I drank and turned it into a lamp 70's stylee

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

I traded in the old (younger) model after 14 years for an older more reliable model.
proving to be one of the best things I ever did

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.

c...
i tell you what.....getting it in there is a damnsight easier and more fun than getting it out......

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.

er........a........

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

b.........

6. what colour are your walls?

various shades of tester pot. recently moved and deciding what colours i want.

dining room is white with a malachite coloured chimney breast, living room is deep red, bedroom two deep red walls and two white, spare bedroom and child's room yellow. All Farrow and Ball because DH does the decorating and refuses to use any other paint. Except the chimney breast. I put my foot down because I really wanted that colour

7. Number of pets?

2 smelly bin raiding labradors

alas both my lovely hounds are no longer with us

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

Alan Rickman

9. Lesbian crush?

Dita Von Teese

i've gone off the Teese. for some reason I've been watching a lot of Sandra Bullock films lately. Am I having a pre mid-life, mid-life crisis

10. What are your views on camping?

i have three tents and a campervan. I frequent festivals during a british summer. I have just reached the stage where a blow up mattress is making onto the shopping list for this summer.

we sold the campervan and bought a retro 70's caravan. the tents are languishing in the shed. they are staying there

11. 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

nothing yet. Last time i didn't have a regular cycle and so spent a fortune. This time i'll be more relaxed about it. hmm yeah right........grin

i went through a stage of needing a second mortgage to feed my pee-stick habit. then I hit the despair of never getting updiffed and stop buying them. I think a third mortgage will be imminent

am i in?

Ah Alan Rickman, MSB Mr Squidgy baybee my DH's nickname on here met him once. He said all these little kids were calling him Snape. MSB went up and said Loved you in Die Hard!
Well since I knew you from elsewhere, I will vouch for you

Well hello queenrollo. I've seen your name around these parts before- I wouldn't dream of anything other that welcoming you back. Glad to hear all the medical fiddling seems to have done the job. God bless laparoscopies.

Arf at MSB. Is die hard any better then Harry potter?!

And I think I had no idea what MSB stood for. It brings tickers and other forums to mind. Can we have a recap of other halves titles? I can't remember what any of them are. GHJ is ginger hairy jock but I sometimes forget and change the letters round as the mood takes me

I was forced encouraged to sit through watch the Die Hard quadrilogy. I was a bit to find I enjoyed them! Second one is my favourite :) My favourite thing about that story is that he always does the loved you in Die Hard! in a really high pitched voice!
Why does MSB make you think of tickers and t'other places? It was only really inspired because he was obsessed with the ruddy Haribo super mix at the time of choosing. He is very Squidgy too!

Hello queen! I'm Shred, I'm pretty new around these parts. Is it wrong that I completely agree with you about Alan Rickman and don't think it's inappropriate?

My DH doesn't have a nickname yet. He's something of a book worm, pretty good at cooking and gardening and a football fan too. Maybe GFBW ( Green fingered book worm?)

PS dor I'm sure those sensations are totally normal
sinky glad you got the referral at least. Hope it's not too long a wait.
northey glad you got the reference in my nickname! Am a bit worried it's just too odd a name out of context.

Hello

I was Winkly - so I haven't changed much!

I went away for a while but I am back, and still not updiffed

But I have my Eurovision Fete planned

Bon nuit, les belles Beshes! La commentator de la bella France (or something like that).

Welcome queen, I like Alan Rickman too and I have seen you elsewhere, because I lurk in the depressing corner some days. So I reckon you're in. But then I have not been here long or so I tell myself...

The hols were fab, (after iui failure) very drunken and full fat food. So now I am a bit bigger. I just ironed my fat smart trousers, as I have a job interview tomorrow.

Keeping fingers crossed for no more bleeding dot. Well done for the good scan. Really happy for you.

How are you feeling faith? Did you get properly better while I was away?

GRRR about the late egg and the early IUI euro. Will you get another basting or is this it?

Well done on being referred sinky. Fingers crossed the wait is not too long.

And welcome back winkly

Difficult decisions for your family, cave. I am soppy and sleep badly when SB (skinny bint) is not here for a night, so I would struggle really badly with the whole sandy idea.

Like the sound of book worm shreddie.

PS Work is busy and the rest of the time I am applying for new jobs and doing massive holiday laundry, so my visits will remain a little sporadic for now!

Ooh job interview sounds exciting! And the holiday sounds luffly :) if you can't let loose on holiday, when can you?!
I am fully recovered from the kidney debacle but am full of cold autocorrected to 'gold' which would be preferable! and my voice is absconding as I speak tonight :( am back at work though doing half days this week which is pleasant.
winklepicker we wondered where you'd got to! How are you? Aside from being undiffed
Shreddie I didn't get it but norf is well read and recognises clever literary MN names!
So an update on MSB's colleague. Looks like he'll be here another few days. She isn't likely to forgive him any time soon actually she's just dumped his stuff outside their house and told him to come get it! so he's here for another few days. Looking at rooms in rented houses from next week. I think he's been an idiot but I do feel a bit sorry for him. To be fair, they'd just got engaged....I'm not sure I'd want to marry him either! We don't know her side of the story of course, but at least him being here means he's not in her house if she doesn't want him there...

This fred is setting perilously close to its end. Did we settle on the Republic of Rulkavia (or whatever it was!) or are we going with something else?

Welcome back to queen and winklie!

Oh Alan Rickman. I so would.

YES to republic of Rulvakia, cave. Would the high priesteress/judge/queen euro with wig (how do you spell that, it looks wrong? Yes, I am tired) start the fred?

And yay for a recovered kidney faith, but you must be suffering with all that gold going on . Engaged and photos of his ex (I guess they are not from when he was with her and that they are well not pretty). Bad combo. Hope he finds a room soon. And in the meantime, feel free to hunt that snotty egg, I say.

Hols were indeed luffly. SB is luffly. No baby-making-sechsing, but for fun and wine and too much food have made me fairy in love again. How embarassing. But good.

Welcome (back) queenie. I have seen you in the hut on the rare occasions I have stuck my head around the door. I figure I am mostly mizz enough without wallowing in the hut! I also don't (yet) think of myself as infertile, so don't like to hang around the infertility board.

My other half is KFZK - Kung Fu Zombie Killer. So named by the BESH, based on the fact that he seems to spend most of his spare time in the spare room shooting zombies and that he used to be massively into martial arts when he was younger - he has 1st dan black belts in two.

I started this one, lemons so will let someone else do the honours on the next fred. But republic of rulvakia sounds like a good theme.

I am still without computer pooter and did the one before last, so I will also allow someone else to start new Fred. Yes to Rulvakia from me. Like the idea of making up rules as we go...,
Yes essentially that's it lemons...only know what he's told MSB. Apparently the ex was encouraging him to play away. He didn't, but he didn't tell her to sling her hook either. The photos were incentive from her. Afaik he didn't cheat, but as I said to MSB it's a betrayal of trust.
I have been posting in the hut for a long time, in fact from a couple of weeks after I joined MN. It has changed a lot in that time and I do think it's dragging me down a bit so I am planning to take a step back myself. I need the tongue in cheek humour of the BESH to go alongside the woes of TTC!