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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

Round up your ghosties and ghoulies and long legged beasties, the BESH are going to scare out the BFPs!

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sinkyroselee · 01/10/2012 08:55

Its true, NGCECOAWT, so the BESH move on.

Join us in spooky October, for a different sort of Pagen fun. Sod the lentil weaving and organic bean bags, we're channelling pointy black hats, green tinged foundation and probably a bit of Harry Potter.

Join us for cursing of the insta-diffs, moments of pure love and the horrors of the cam of the fanjo - post the Beshtionnaire and the coven will judge you.

This is not a woo thread (TINAWT)

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WinklyFriedChicken · 19/10/2012 12:56

Can you tip some over me as I am menkulling like crazy, and batter the rest to go with a naice aioli and a glass of wine?

WinklyFriedChicken · 19/10/2012 12:58

Oh thank you. I think honey is scientific now, no? I just have a totally bargain basement respiratory system that surrenders at the first hint of any germy onslaught. My friends are well used to pausing conversations for me to have a hacking coughing fit then resuming as if nothing happened.

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 19/10/2012 12:59

Why are you menkulling? You should be feeling sorry for yourself and reading crappy magz with warm drinks!

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 19/10/2012 13:05

Going once, going twice, going to be battered. :)

WinklyFriedChicken · 19/10/2012 13:05

Big sore boobs and trying to remind myself that we only did sechs once this month, ages before ovulation time so virtually impossible for me to be diffed!

I am feeling quite sorry for myself but am drugging up as I am going to center Parcs later today for a drinking and swimming weekend.

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 19/10/2012 13:17

Feel free to menkul I did despite doing the sechs only twice and having left over bits in my womble last month covered in smelly rings, but do enjoy yourself with the drinking at least not so sure about swimming with your chest infection.

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 19/10/2012 13:17

Right, I'll finish some bits and bobs and then run. You lot enjoy yourself!

ThisWitchSinks · 19/10/2012 13:24

Can I have some calamari? I love a good bit of deep fried squid tenticle.

Winkly, honey has the medical thumbs up. Manuka honey, not tescos value mind. not that I really know what makes them so different

I quite like the accupuncture. I'm not sure if it's because I have somebody ask me how I am, and seem to be interested in the reply. [looser emoticon]. At least, he moves the needles around depending on what I tell him.

Apparently my pulse and tongue were looking particularly healthy today

WinklyFriedChicken · 19/10/2012 13:31

Envy of sinky and her healthy tongue

Loving that driz has ok'd drinking but not swimming. Tis a center parcs tropical warm pool, all the heat and steam will be good for my breathing and it isn't likely to be strenuous swimming.

I saw some manuka honey in Tesco, nearly fainted at the price of it. Compromised and bought a mid-range organic jar. Luffs honey.

FrankelSaysRelax · 19/10/2012 14:36

I'm back! Meeting was pretty good actually and things seem nowhere bad as first thought - told you I'm a glass half empty bod!

I missed the Frankel piece on the Beeb, was it good? Fun Frankel Fact for you, which I found out today: he eats 23lbs of oats a day. That's (apparently) the equivalent of 600 weetabix Shock

HaveALittleFaith · 19/10/2012 14:37

Allegedly only the 25+ Manuka honey is any cop. It comes with a £25 price tag too.

sink in April I received a letter printed 29th March, posted 16th April for an appointment 18th April. It arrived the afternoon of 18th April. The appointment was at 10.30 that morning! Hmm I got a DNA for not attending! Still waiting for a reply to my complaint to get it removed. I'd ring and ask them to confirm the appointment time --or can you check for yourself?!-/

ThisWitchSinks · 19/10/2012 14:51

Well Faife, therein lies the problem.

I can check the appointment system. And theres no appointment. But... A letter from the fertility unit to my GP (that I've never seen) is there, but I can't open it as I don't have the right privileges. Also, while the appointment in August for the bloods/scan etc is there, only 2 of the 3 cancelled appointments from June/July are.

So, I can't see there is an appointment, but I can't guarantee I would, it might be on a different system (maybe.. You know then nhs..). But it leaves me in a difficult position. I've been told its been made and in the post, but they can't tell me when over the phone Hmm, and I can't come out and say I've been checking my own results etc.

What a tangled web we weave eh?

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 19/10/2012 15:10

I tried the honey thing. Didn't work

You are supposed to shove it up your foof, right?

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 19/10/2012 15:12

How the fuck do they manage to arse up appointments so much? It sounds like the benefits system.

"You were supposed to meet us last week."
"Well no one told me."
"You were told two minutes before. That's you STRUCK OFF. Go and reflect upon your sins."

WinklyFriedChicken · 19/10/2012 15:16

Rie you need to tell the "washing your foof with soap or just water" thread your honey exploits.

evilgiraffe · 19/10/2012 15:17

23lb oats? Fucking hell, no wonder he's fast. How do they stop him bouncing off the walls?!

Well done all re appointments, counsellors etc. I'm still toying with the idea of acupuncture. Does it actually help?

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 19/10/2012 15:36

Didn't some mad woman actually say that she used organic honey on her bits on that thread Confused?

Interesting honey fact: you could live on honey and water, you know. And that's it. It contains everything you need. Superfood doesn't even cover it, though obviously you would need to be quite scrupulous about cleaning your teeth.

Re: acupuncture draf, there are those who swear by it. Former BESH say it has helped them, along with reflexology. Personally, the only person round her I would trust to do it lives 30 miles away and charges £45 a pop. So that's that o

ThisWitchSinks · 19/10/2012 16:00

Hmm. Mine needle man is just round the corner, but does charge £40 a pop. I do wonder why I throw money at him, but, well, what else do you do eh?

I have drawn the line at the herbs which were another £40. For pond scum.

evilgiraffe · 19/10/2012 16:09

A friend of a friend swears by a needle lady who is pretty close to me (again, about £40 a go). Perhaps I should try it, just to satisfy my curiosity...

Northey · 19/10/2012 16:50

I've washed my foof with olive oil. Worked a treat, it did.

sinky, surely everyone in a hospital must check their own results? Or is it one of those things that everyone knows but must never acknowledge?

evilgiraffe · 19/10/2012 16:54

"worked", norf? What were you trying to achieve? Shiny, glossy pubic hair?

All this talk of olive oil and honey does fit theme well, though.

raspberrytipple · 19/10/2012 17:00

blimey you lot can talk!

I've had a bumper pack of OPKs arrive today but no conceive plus. I'm on day 7 so I'm tempted to start peeing on them tomorrow just for scientific purposes plus I just feel the need to start peeing on stuff because I haven't done that much lately!

glad your meeting went ok frankel

Ref needle people - is that not considered woo? I wanted to see someone to get some needle time but MATV is dead against it, he's such a skeptic but to be honest at this point I am willing to try anything. But then I also thought rather than spend the month on being prickled I might just keep it and have some more 1-2-1s with my pole teacher cus that's waaaaay more fun.

WinklyFriedChicken · 19/10/2012 17:07

I think needling is fairly un-woo, at least as far as woo things go. I believe in my heart its the reason I stopped getting horrific utis

HavingALittleFaithBaby · 19/10/2012 17:23

Hmm, stops UTIs you say?! I'm considering it to get on top of my abdo pain. I'd rather cut down the codiene if I can! My local uni does it at a discounted price! Like £20 a session instead of £40-odd.

Ps I have NC a bit :)

raspberrytipple · 19/10/2012 17:53

Mmmmmm, I'd love to give it a go, I probably need to get someone on a recommendation though rather than head somewhere cold.

Talking of woo / did anyone watch Russell Howard's good news last night? His mystery guest was an animal psychic! He took the Michael, it was brilliant :)

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