The ongoing search for BFPs now leads the BESH to the barren polar wastes, in the footsteps of Scott, Shackleton and Franklin.

[ArielThePiraticalMermaid]

Pack those reindeer sleeping bags, huskies and skis - we're off to the Antarctic to look for our BFPs. Unlike Scott, we'll eat the poniez if necessary (topical joke). Let's huddle together through the Antarctic night and we'll try not to kidnap one of the emperor penguin toddlers for our very own. Bring on blizzards, pack ice, shipwreck, attacking leopard seals, voyages across the Southern Ocean in rowing boats and hazardous traverses of South Georgia in search of rescue - just like the Shackleton expedition, NO BESH WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.

(do I win the prize for most random fred ever?)

Northey glad to hear the cat will be wee-free

norf imagine it would have been very difficult to hold the cat in place for 10 seconds anyway.

Norf & BESHes do you pee ON a stick and not in a pot? Am I odd? I keep the pot of pee until I have got my BFN in case I need to dip another stick in it!!

In a pot, every time. I don't think I've ever successfully peed on an actual stick. It especially doesn't work with internet cheapies.

Not just me then! I actually had a pre-wedding gin fuelled conversation with husband to be and his best man about the fact that women's pee doesnt just fall neatly down into the loo. They were and

Pee in a ramekin! It's the only way! and gives a perfect excuse for buying Gü puddings when hormonal

Merkin I have had to explain to several men over the years that we pee out of a different hole to where the sechs happens.. Really truly.

Captain REALLY?? Are you sure they were men??? I would be worried abut their capability to have the sechs if they didn't know that!

Another pot pee-er here.

I'm procrastinating over my revision. It's all Tax and Contracts and Business Plans

I think I prefer your revision when it's winking horse fanjos, frank.

I pee on sticks and in pots I prefer pots, for neatness, but also like sticks for lack on follow on washing up requirements.

Winking horse fanjos frank please elaborate?!

I would love to be versatile norf but I am obviously bad at peeing in a certain direction when under pressure therefore i stick to the pots

Good purchasing Norf. How many dpEC are you now?

I use internet cheapies so pee in a pot, but for ov tests I used the expensive smiley face ones and peed directly on my hand those.

frank that sounds terribly dull. It's like a combination of my and KFZK's jobs. Zzzzzz. Sorry, I'm not helping, am I?

moll I might have needed that explanation a couple of days ago. I was trying to insert my late night fanny candle half asleep, struck by early preggo knackeredness. It just wouldn't go. At that point I realised I was trying to insert it into the only hole out of the three it is not supposed to go in. That stung a bit.

merkin we do have a rather crap design of sprinkler system, don't we? It's a bit like a shower head affected by limescale, that sprays unpredictably or maybe that's just me.

I watched a video in A-level biology about pee once: when men pee, it is forced out and spins so that it goes in a straight line. Laydees are gravity reliant hence the mess. I used ramekins until the house fire (when I was literally left without a pot to pee in!). I got all my ramekins back but had no idea which one had been the pee one so had to bin them all....I now favour a Doritos salsa jar (use this to catch samples for MW). Being a bit taller leads to less mess. I have broken pee sticks trying to use them directly!

11dpEC. 12dpEC tomorrow morning. I just want to manage my own expectations a bit, and prepare myself with advance negative, so I don't have a single horrible sad surprised on OTD.

norf got to admit I don't truly understand the days post because I am not that clever but I am crossing things for you!

euro I'm an expert at peeing on my hand too and have been known to pee between the toilet bowl and loo seat occasionally

Negative at 12dpEC. Hmmm.

I was a pot pee-er too. I favoured a mug because the handle made it nice and easy to avoid weeing on ones hands!

Northey Have read SMU is stronger because the hormones are at their peak at breakfast time or so. You know, how sex hormones peak at 8am - that sort of thing.

Am going to give it two more days then try on Thursday. Then two more till OTD on Saturday.

norf were you awake early just to pee?? FX for thur

I always wake and pee at that time! Just normally I stumble back into bed, whereas today I washed the pee off my hand and stared at a resolutely arctic stick for a while.

Are you peeing early like always do ? As in its likely too early to tell yet (not as in at 4am iyswim)

Norf, I'm sorry, but don't give up yet, it is still early days.

Merkin, I'm studying a degree in horse racing which has lots of business stuff as well as biology. I've been sharing the details of the equine reproduction modules, including the fact that when a mare is in season one of the signs is that she stands near the stallion, lifts her tail and "winks" her fanjo at him . Troo fact!

North I didn't test until 18 days post EC. Everything crossed for you.

:( about the negative norf. Fingers crossed for appearing lines in the next two days.

Just confirming I am a pee in jar type.

I've seen mares doing that even if no stallion for miles around. Tarts.

My temperature is even higher today, such that my thermometer beeped alarmingly. I woke in the night feeling all cold, snuggled up to HOTB only to find he was cooler than me - this never happens. I don't like being ill :( HOTB is providing me with drugs and tea though, so I'm all good until he leaves for work and have to fend for myself...