Five and the Mystery of the Declining Fertility - the BESH engage the services of the Famous Five to track down their baybees and finish with lashings of ginger beer. Topping!

[ArielThePiraticalMermaid]

Morning everyone, just let me wolf down this amazing meal of tinned tongue, hardboiled eggs and ginger beer (don't you find food always tastes so much better outside?) and we'll toddle off on our latest adventure. We'll make sure Anne does the washing up (you'll make a proper little housewife and no doubt the fecund mother of four fine sons one day Anne ) and us boys can have the proper adventures! No, not you George - you're nearly as good as a boy but not quite. Leave the actual procreating to me and Dick. Woof woof! Shut up Timmy!

bog smoke=big smoke
I cannot type today!

Hurrrah for tobogganing!

Sorry for the BFN frankel. From your chart, you really should be up the pole. Hmmm.

If I'm weedy Ann on the basis of my pathetic ability to withstand the cold, I have to tell you Norfy Droid is very much with Ann. Oh yes.

Very miffed to hear that, Frank, old chap. Have this hard boiled egg :(

Are you in That Wales or That Lunnon? Snowy isn't it? Do you want to come out to play? I'm only a couple of hours from you but I'm not sure I'd get through the Beacons.

SNOW UPDATE About 5cm here. Terrifically exciting Julian.

Five and the Adventure of the Snow Hysteria.

Snow here too, but it's very very fine, so not at all deep yet. It is -1 degrees though so it is settling - at the minute it looks like everything is covered in icing sugar :)

Jolly bad news frank old chap. And terribly sorry about your, ahem, women's problems, AnnEuro

Snow here too - day trip to oxford cancelled, so I went panic shopping to tesco and bought Mario Kart.

The famous five go cross country skiing to Oxford to bring twinkly to her meeting. I LOVE snow, waves at ariel.

Me, ariel? I am in London, sadly, or I would have been right there for a jolly snowy frolic.

I want to take Timmy for a walk in the snow. And make him chase balls that disappear into the snow leaving him all confused.

BESH snow watch report: I'm in Central London, it's been snowing moderately since about 9am. It's settling on the ungritted areas, but is not at all deep yet.

There is a fair amount of snow here. I think I might dig out my boots and go for a walk.

Snow watch update from Derby: LOADS!! It's been snowing all day.

Euro were you watching when I took JethroDog out this morning?

East Angular snow update - a mere sprinkling for us so far today (looks like cook spilt the icing sugar!). I'm about to head off to catch my train that that there London so probably won't check in again till Sunday. Don't go having loads of adventures without me!

Jeff am properly that you have a dog to throw amazing white vanishing balls for. When it snows I miss my lovely old girl, we had such fun. The expression on her lovely doggy face when she caught one and it exploded into a shower of powder in her mouth...

We used to have a dopey retriever. The disappearing balls were always a mystery to her. Another good one was throwing snowballs for her to catch. She always looked so confuzzled when there was nothing left.

I love retrievers. They're such good natured dullards.

JethroDog is a boxer puppy. It took us a while but now we have bonded and I love him. He's snoring with his head on my knee right now.

Aren't they Rie? Despite having a garden full of squirrels, ours never figured out that they disappeared up trees when she chased them.

Calm me down, BESH, pleeeeease. Drug company are delivering drugs next Thursday. I have to start injecting on CD2. I am currently on CD20. Last cycle was 36 days. This should all work out ok. BUT, I feel absurdly pre-menstrual - crampy/bloated and a vaguely full and wet, you know, there. Oh please don't let me have a freakish 21 day cycle or something. Not now I have go this far. Could this be ovulation? I've never had these as symptoms of egg-laying before, but do they seem recognisable as that to you?

It will be ok North. You are probably much more aware of everything that is going on with your body at the moment. What's your shortest cycle been?

In my life? Probably 21 days. But I don't think I've been that short for some years. This is the problem with unpredictable cycles. What if this month the unpredictable thing is that it's going to be super short? Argh!

Ooh, it's you, jeffers! How are you feeling today?

Hullo BESH's! Sorry to barge in uninvited, but I simply couldn't resist. This an absolutely wizard thread and I've been carrying lashings of ginger beer around all day, so I thought maybe you'd like to help me swig some of it. It's simply super if you add a great big dollop of this scrummy vodka!

Anyway, hello. I'm 32, TTC number 1 for about 17 cycles. Been through a bunch of blood tests, had several things shoved up my foof in the last few weeks and discovered a "mysterious lump" that may be a cyst or a fibroid, and may need surgery or not. The Uterine Mass of Adventure, anyone?

DH is edging perilously close to 40, and has so far been too fecking busy with work to go for any tests at all.

So that's me.

*pats Timmy, devours all the chocolate, discovers hidden entrance to goldmine

Oooh a newbie! Spiffing! To prove your mystery investigating skills, you will be required to search dark passages depths of MN and complete the BESHtionnaire.

What ho chaps. We have been experiencing a fair bit of white stuff falling from the sky in the 'shire. Not exactly jolly leaving work at 8. Took me ten minutes to remove it from the car. Joyfully tucked up at home now dreading going back in tomorrow lunch time

norfus you may well be hard boiled egg laying. Timing wise it would fit. Could you have a rummage and see what it looks like?!

Sorry for the negativo stick Frank :(

Evening jeffers, sending sticky vibes! :)

Norfy surely the timing would be about right for egg laying on a 36 day cycle? I reckon that's what's going on. It'll all be fine.

Do I smell... fresh blood?

Oh well maybe, euroann and faif. But obviously I am focussing on the negative version.

Hullo, captainmoll. Come in, kick off your rubber-soled shoes and tell us about yourself. Extra points if you can shoehorn in some potted meat.