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Don your capes and stick your undies on over your trousers for the BESH superhero thread

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HaveALittleFaith · 26/07/2012 21:41

NC optional but not essential. Create your tag line and describe your outfit in detail. Wanna be BESH superheroes must prove their might by undergoing a gruelling set of tasks completing the BESHtionnaire hidden elsewhere in old threads
Fly on in and make yourself at home in our obviously secret lair :)

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blonderthanred · 24/08/2012 09:30

So what colour do you think my hair is..? Grin

HaveALittleFaith · 24/08/2012 09:46

Strawberry blonde, obviously!

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 24/08/2012 09:54

Arf at Jethro describing herself as a giant.

She isn't you know. She is vair vair elegant and tall. We're not talking Olympic rower tall, just normal tall. She has Style.

Thank you Euro! I am quite scrawny thin though! I see you as very professional looking with a shiny head of styled hair and snappy clothes.

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 24/08/2012 09:56

Oh, I think I have said so before, but I imagine euro as Miranda from SatC. Sorry Wink

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 24/08/2012 09:57

Grin at being round and yellow. Thankfully not. On both counts.

Casserole · 24/08/2012 10:34

Good morning Beshlets. I have been doing craft this morning so I thought i would leave you these

Hope you are all hanging in there x

JethroTull · 24/08/2012 10:35

Thanks Rie
Rie has great hair y'know . She was the first MN person that I met in RL. We drank wine & stuff.

It is our IVF appointment in 2 weeks. Not that I'm counting.

alwyn · 24/08/2012 11:22

Wine and not gin, jethro?? Hmm

Hope all the BESH (and visiting/lurking PESH) are having a good day so far. I'm off to Leeds Festival in a couple of hours (just for the day, I'm too old for all the camping bollox) - looking forward to all the bands (especially the one containing the man who would be my husband if I wasn't married - Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters - lush!).

Spent yesterday off the grid at school, it was GCSE results day and I went in to see how all my kids got on - one of them (my favourite from this year) legged it across the room when she saw me and threw her arms round me because she'd done so well. Makes all the crap you have to go through in the year worthwhile sniff I'm going to miss her next year, she's off to another 6th form Sad

And I am going to visit friends on Saturday and welcome their (very hard won and extremely preemie) baby home. It's been a rough old time for them, so I am genuinely happy that it's all going well in the end.

What are the BESHes plans for the long weekend?

alwyn · 24/08/2012 11:24

Oh, and interesting story I found this morning: Super-fertility can cause unexplained miscarriages

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 24/08/2012 11:52

CAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Northey · 24/08/2012 13:24

I forgot al! She is very small and round, like a shiny red apple.

Northey · 24/08/2012 13:30

No real plans here for the weekend. As I am off work anyway, I had sort if not noticed that it was coming up.

I might persuade AMNH to come to the cinema with me to see Brave (the only thing showing). Or possibly try a little walk somewhere with a nice pub at the end of it.

Things going ok here. Physical recovery is going well, but I'm ridiculously up and down emotionally. I cried yesterday because AMNH spoke harshly to the kettle.

eurochick · 24/08/2012 13:35

Interesting, alwyn. Some of the recurrent miscarriers on the pred thread have discussed the concept of an "unfussy womb" (clearly not a problem I have).

I've overseas and working for the weekend. But Mr euro is coming out for the weekend as it is our 2nd wedding anniversary while I am away. Hopefully I will get some time to see him between meetings!

eurochick · 24/08/2012 13:37

BTW, I'm 5'6. Was a size 10 until the fertility drugs made me balloon. Pale skin. Hair is a mix - blonde on top, brown underneath, unruly (needs to be ironed to be kept in order). It was like that even before I started highlighting it - at the first hint of sunshine in bleaches beautifully (shame we haven't had much sunshine!)

Northey · 24/08/2012 13:38

Are you anywhere nice (or within reach of anywhere nice), euro?

Northey · 24/08/2012 13:40

Oh yes. euro didn't do too badly with her description of me. Though after a week of sugary tea and custard creams "slim-ish" might be pushing it.

eurochick · 24/08/2012 13:55

It's not a bad place to spend a weekend Norf and it's a city I used to line in a while back so I know it pretty well, but KFZK has never been here.

eurochick · 24/08/2012 14:07

Live in not line in. I will learn to type one day. Maybe.

sinkingflameofhilarity · 24/08/2012 14:38

Am working this weekend. . But have just gone and bought lots of m&s food loveliness. Am v jealous of the fun you all may be planning.

First IVF appointment Jethro? (sans dungarees and now looking über chic). Am going to give my unit a month (maybe 3 weeks) to send me an appointment after all the prelim tests done and then start pestering them again. Lucky them.

Have fun with the friends alwyn. Is baby ok now or still a poorly premie? My friend has just had her little girl. She's v cute (looking at the photos only unfortunately) but this is the friend who didn't tell me she was pregnant because she "knew how tough it would be for me" because she'd been trying for 8months. Sigh. And she remains unable to speak to me about my " problem", but never mind, she's just a bit emotional inept. Much like myself.

Oh, and I've heard the unfussy womb thing for recurrent miscarriages. Obv not in my case, but does sound likely.

Glad you're feeling a bit better Norf. Tears are definitely allowed. And all the better if over a kettle than an argument you may have manufactured with the boy (not that I would even do this when in the depths)

I'll just wave to everyone else- there's a lot of BESH types around at the mo! How are all the early diffed ones getting on?

For the record, I'm 5'8", mousy brown by nature with highlights which are gradually getting less blonde. (but I am still blonde, even if saying that makes ghj look at me funny). Size 12. Would love to be described as curvy, but I fear I just have a big arse and thighs. Am obviously v well dressed and chic. Think Parisian with a touch of Mediterranean romance and eastern mystique.

HaveALittleFaith · 24/08/2012 16:51

I'm doing little this weekend. Got the munchkin (nephew) overnight. Apparently he's very excited about staying over at our house. I'm just having a rest in anticipation of the early morning tomorrow! Aside from a bike ride we don't have much planned. It's rather nice. The last bank holiday we moved house and it was rather manic! I have plans to cook food and freeze it so I have home cooked easy meals for night's when I'm shattered.

I'm glad that appointment is rolling round jethro. Not that the process is a good thing but because it's one step closer to winning a baybee!

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JethroTull · 24/08/2012 21:29

Sinking not our first, we've had 2 years of tests & appointments. That's one of the reasons I left the BESH thread, all the waiting was making me miz. But now it's all systems go, we had a letter today too detailing protocol and the cost (ignoring that bit for now).

Faith our nephew loves sleep overs with us, he gets to eat pizza, play on the Xbox with SSG and generally get doted on. I love it! How old is he?

Norf hope you have a restful weekend without too many ups & downs.

Northey · 24/08/2012 21:33

Gulp at cost, jethy. Are you self funding?

HaveALittleFaith · 24/08/2012 21:38

He's 3 in September jethro. He pooed in the bath! MSB called me in because he doesn't know how to deal with these things, like I do?! Hmm oh well, the bath and the boy have been rinsed. He's now snoring away. Yes he luffs to visit, it's very exciting!

IIRC when you stepped back from the Fred you were saving your pennies jethro and biding your time. It is luffly to have you around again :)

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JethroTull · 24/08/2012 22:02

Ah thanks Faif . Yes Northey, our PCT claims to give couples one free go but there is no budget for IVF in 2012. Also we've been messed around by them for 2.5 years, it pushed me over the edge earlier in the year so we thought fuck it, bit the bullet & will have to stump up the ££££ ourselves.

JethroTull · 24/08/2012 22:02

Poo in the bath? Brilliant!