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

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 19/02/2013 22:35

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?)

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 21/02/2013 18:16

Have you got anyone to talk to in RL, Frank?

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FrankellyMyDearIDontGiveADamn · 21/02/2013 18:39

I've got HWHNN and my best friend but I don't like to burden her, she's got enough on her plate with a 3 month old and her dad dying in hospital. That's why I think I need to talk to the counsellor, someone objective.

You lot help lots too Smile

Northey · 21/02/2013 18:50

When is HWHNN back? I know from experience that phone conversations are Not Satisfactory when it's something like this.

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 21/02/2013 18:50

Keep talking then.

I know what you mean about burdening someone, but to be honest, I've never found a friend confiding in me a burden. I just want to listen, if it helps them.

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 21/02/2013 18:56

Your poor friend and her dad though :(

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FrankellyMyDearIDontGiveADamn · 21/02/2013 19:15

He's back tomorrow night Norf.

I know Rie, she's had an awful time. Her mum died of uterine cancer in August 2011 and her dad had a stroke about 15 years ago which meant her mum was his carer. Ever since she died she said he's just been giving up bit by bit. He's been moved from a nursing home to a hospital as he can't swallow anymore.

She was TTC through all the heartache with her mum and when she fell pregnant in early 2012 she just kept saying how she wanted to be able to talk to her mum about it Sad

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TWinklyLittleStar · 21/02/2013 19:17

Hello frank

Do feel free to just spew out whatever you're feeling into posts here. I'm not surprised you're taking this one hard.

Hello merkin, nice to have you on this trek

Northey · 21/02/2013 19:22

What is the arrangement to review this cycle with the clinic? I know you might not be thinking about that yet :(

Northey · 21/02/2013 19:22

Husky? Huskie?

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 21/02/2013 19:25

Husky I believe.

That's heartbreaking for her. I can see why you don't want to add to her woes. Oh well, you have us. YOU DON'T NEED OTHER FRIENDS

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Northey · 21/02/2013 19:27

You can't have any anyway, trapped in the polar wastes. We would know

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 21/02/2013 19:29
lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 21/02/2013 19:30

Oh and yes, your poor friend :(

TWinklyLittleStar · 21/02/2013 19:32

Shock at bugs letting GP spaff on tits :)

CatsCantFlyFast · 21/02/2013 19:34

You will be pleased to know gin can actually cure a cold as it kind of says so here

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 21/02/2013 19:34

You know we say that no I is TMI? I think I just changed my mind....

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TWinklyLittleStar · 21/02/2013 19:35

And am sorry about your friend frank. Some people really do have shit times, don't they.

I thought everyone fancied Orlando Bloom as Legolas. Hmm.

I knew about fertility decline, but we decided to wait to TTC until we had moved house. We've still not fucking moved either, and can't move now. However I didn't know what the Fens were when I started uni, and had the piss royally torn out of me for asking if they were a mountainous area.

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 21/02/2013 19:40

Like Jade Goody and East Angular?

Not a Legolas fan here. He's too blonde and clean. Give me Boromir or Aragorn, or preferably both at the same time, any day

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TWinklyLittleStar · 21/02/2013 19:41

I am recovering from a long bout of The Plague, but am shattered and only half reading before I type, which is why my posts are a lot bit disjointed. Sorry.

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 21/02/2013 19:53

I'll have the toddy minus the lemon grass (cos I haven't got any in the house). I made evil soup that made my nose water it was so hot.

I overlooked the spaff on tits, SB ain't having that. But if you want to let one of your boys off, I am happy to take one on aries

Northey · 21/02/2013 19:53

Poor twink, what sort of plague? Has the expedition surgeon seen you yet?

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 21/02/2013 19:55

Isn't twink the expedition surgeon? Who was a physician again? Maybe toddly faif can sort us all out...

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 21/02/2013 19:57

Bubonic plague? Will the boils in your groin explode?

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Northey · 21/02/2013 20:00

:o at hussyish spaff-spilling behaviour!

I wish I could join in with the free for all, but I am exhausted and have no libido. And it's easier to hide a bored and sleepy face over someone's shoulder than it is when they're spaffing on your buzzwams.

euro and jeff, did progesterone knock you out like this as well?