Deck your halls & dress your trees, the BESH are gifting BFPs

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Doff your top hats, lean on your canes, 'tis a Victorian Christmas for the BESH. Baste those turkeys in Victoria & Albert style, and maintain a stiff upper lip when you fill in the BESHtionnaire to see if you are cynical stoic enough to win a Baybee.

On Clomid you haven't ovulated?? But you ovulated normally before, didn't you? What on earth is going on?!

I failed to ovulate properly on Clomid in two cycles, ended up around Day 40-something.

Temperature fell back 0.1 of a degree this morning, so tomorrow will either confirm or deny ov. However, I feel rather pukey this morning Coz of course you get symptoms within 48 hours

Morning gentlefolk!

So sorry about 9 day droids and telling the ILs draf, SB told his parents without me (and vice versa). I had a cry on my mum re: the distinct lack of bump (and I should have been over 20weeks, and I feel sorry for myself) as the mc misery came back with a vengeance for Christmas. So I cannot be boffered to write on theme.

Well done for being off work, nearly faif! And good luck with waitrose euro. I just did the bakers and butcher's this morning (on my way back from a run and the mood was festive but the pace was SLOW.

Fucking clomid bugs. Hope you lay soon (and otherwise there is always the fabulous trigger shot=hcg, which has made me farty all weerk).

Good symptom spotting frank, fingers crossed for confirmed ovulation. I convinced myself I had womble aches. But they disappeared when I produced a rather rocklike turd...

On that rather unvictorian note. We're not going anywhere, so I shall be back in the next few days, perhaps less grumpy!

Bugs this time last year I was doing my first Letrozole cycle. I usually ovulate on day 14 on the right side, day 16 on the left, without drugs. I was scanned on day 12 (just before Xmas) and there was nothing doing - just a bunch of small follies. I should have been scanned again but the clinic was closed between Xmas and NY so I just kept temping. I spent a very tense Christmas, sure that these stupid drugs had fucked everything up. I eventually oved on day 20. After that they upped the dose and I oved on CD12/13. So it's probably just that they have not got the dose right for you. Try not to panic (like I did, pointlessly!).

I say go for the mulled wine. Think of how many drunken Xmas babies will be made over the next couple of weeks.

Watirose wasn't too bad. No busier than a normal Saturday! However they had run out of mince pies - at 11.30am on Xmas Eve!!! The shelves were bare. I hope there were more in the storeroom and it was just a shelf stacking issue otherwise there are going to be lots of pissed off bankers at Canary Wharf.. I had to swing by a petrol station with a supermarket attached on the way back to get some. BAD watirose.

Just found out my skanky 22 yr old homeless single cousin is pregnant. Fuck.

Ahem, laydees gentlemens. I have arrived bearing many wishes of a Merry Christmas and a fruitful new year.

I luffs you all and have given Santa a very stern talking to regarding some much delayed BFPs. He had better get his shit together. Or else.

How are you deary, I mean dear sir?

Aw, Tipps. That's just fucking shit.

Just back from pub. Several women noticeably on the softies or non alcoholic beer. And not driving. Nothing said though, so, Shall Ignore. Won't see most of them till next Christmas anyway, at which point I'll be preggers or avec child. Obviously.

A bit melancholy tonight. 4th yrs of "next year I'll..."

FFS tipps, it should not be allowed! As Victorian gentlemen do we not rule the world? How have skanky cousins slipped through our social and economic stranglehold?

At PILS now. MIL took me aside and said in hushed tones that she understood if I wasn't drinking much. She is kind and lovely and I am frankly marrying AMNH partly to tie her down as my mother in law, but for some reason that really jarred with me. I don't want people's understanding! Especially if they then spend half the evening reminiscing about the hour immediately after they'd given birth to BIL and how they couldn't stop laughing.

Merry Yuletide dear BESH.

May the coming year bring us fortune untold

Chin up Sinks, it is sucky but we'll get through it together.

Merry Christmas ya bunch of hags

Fanks. I blame wine and families.

This does not bode well for the next 48hrs

Merry Christmas and condolences all round.

Droid still here at day ten - my shortest droid in the last six months has been nine days (longest was sixteen) which is, quite frankly, taking the piss. Fortunately HOTB is not squeamish so sechsing still happening :)

Just gone to bed after laughing ourselves silly watching Full
Metal Jousting, now listening to the rain hammering at the window - my parents' spare room faces out into the prevailing wind so it sounds Quite Exciting. Mince pies and mulled wine tomorrow, hurrah!

(disclaimer for disjointed post: I may have overindulged on wine tonight)

Felicitous wishes in this most joyous season of Yule!, my dear friends.

I hope droid fucks off today, festivegiraffe, along with any hangover which might be meanly loitering.

sinky, loving strokes with the Cod of Comfort and big manly swats with the Bream of Bucking Up. I also can't bear that we are at another Christmas in this game. And if anyone else posts a photo of their child dressed as a shepherd or wise man or whatever, I will, well, umm, well nothing much really. But grrr.

Happy Christmas Hags! Hope you all have lovely days.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Hags! Hope it's a good day. I've told Father Christmas to bring you all BFPs in the next couple of months

Merry Christmas Hags!

Christmas cods of comfort to tippy. I am sorry and shocked. Combined with alcohol and too much family things might become ugly... Which norf's lovely MIL shows. Generally great, shockingly crap sometimes... Sorry about that too! As about endless droids, draff that is shit!

Impressed at braving waitrose and at no more mincepies euro! Fanks for the gin faify I can use it! And tell us how you and the lovely LP are!!

We are having out anti-social christmas and it's lovely. Although I was counting on seeing the nephews on boxing day and that seems to have been delayed til the 27th. Oh well. Maybe I'll go down the parental home to catch enough small people for this christmas.
I am menkulling still. And for us it's the third Christmas of thinking and hoping maybe next year. Although it is a seriously tinged with "I should have been past 20 weeks by now as well..." :(

OMG that woman bugs. So rude. So unacceptable. GRRR!

Merry Christmas one and all!

I had a night disturbed by the hammering rain and thunder and lightening (why isn't it called lightening and thunder as you always see it before you hear it? Can you tell I have been awake pondering such things for half the night?). I am now inflicting Now That's What I Call Christmas on everyone. The Fairytale of New York will be played on repeat shortly.

At least there is little chance that our Christmas guests (my parents) will announce a surprise pregnancy....

at the 22 yr cousin, tipps and stomach rubbing Bugs.

In the midst of Xmas related horrors (belly stroking? undeserved diffment?) I snorted at the thought of family Euros surprise announcement. Now, that would require all the cod, bream and sturgeon in the ocean.

So, chaps, the Yule logs are burning low. Allow me to improve our situation by means of an assortment of flammable seasonal bunting and tinsel.