The Genuine BESH Palais. To misquote Carlsberg, we're probably the barrenest TTC-ers in the world...

[HesterShaw]

We are Barren. We are Evil, on account of having left procreating until our 30s. We are Selfish, thinking only of careers and money and cars and holidays. And lastly, we are Hags. Welcome to the BESH gin palace. Babydusters and instadiffers need not apply.

faif thanks for the tip. I've picked up one of those silicone gels. I'm not really worried about the healing - I tend to heal quite quickly usually - just about the mark that is left. Is silver good for that too?

How are you and minifaif doing?

I got Sherlock on DVD today - we'll be watching later too twink.

hest just plenty of rain here. I've been dodging brollies - the spikes are all at wound height!

moll I hope you are home now. x

I am at home, swaddled in blankets and very well looked after by my luffly man. It is pouring with rain outside, which is one of my favourite noises from inside my boat. I think stormyness is en route, Hest.

You know, if it wasn't for the sage advice of the BESH, I may not have had a womb left at the end of today. I'm really not naturally given to disagreeing with medical professionals. So thank you all very much for your beshly wisdom.

cap'n glad to see you are back on board the mother ship. I am agog at your treatment. That jumped-up assistant wants assassinating. We should set-up a BESH hit-squad for fuckers like that (and Rasp's donut eating useless cuntbag at the hospital can be stabbed in the neck whilst we're at it). Good for you for telling her to sod off.

euro sounds as though you have run the gauntlet getting home ! Women wielding umbrellas are fucking lethal. Perhaps they should be our weapons of choice, to stab incompetents and instadiffers with.

Hello to everyone else.

Norks x

frank yes I started with A Study In Pink. It was very good, and they gain points for at least attempting to show that the investigating officers are aware of forensics at a crime scene (it really bothers me!) It loses points for showing shots of Soho streets that aren't where they're actually running - and the route they're shown to run makes no sense at all! - but I don't think that would matter to most people. I just worked in the streets of Soho for several years so know it very well indeed.

Oh I know what you mean about streets in programmes. My old school was used as the set for Teachers and the shots of Andrew Lincoln "cycling to work" really used to wind me up. He's usually going the wrong way or in a totally different part of the city!

IMHO the second Sherlock episode, The Blind Banker, is the weakest, but it is still good.

I liked that one. It's the Hound of the Baskervilles that's the weakest, I think, but then that makes up for a shakier-than-usual case by having the best character interactions of all - Sherlock and John are to die for in that.

No-one ever sets anything in Cambridge, so I've never had the street issue. Weird, really, it's so beautiful and steeped in history (not to mention easy travelling distance from London) you'd think it would be a desirable filming location.

I enjoyed all the Sherlocks except the Scandal in Bohemia one. Mark Gattis has a retarded idea of woman, which mars otherwise excellent work.

One last post-surgery note from me: we need to add Laparoscopy Blue Rinse to the pant paint chart

Stephen Moffat wrote Scandal in Belgravia. I have to say I disagree, I thought Irene Adler was well written and ultimately she won, because Sherlock was smitten with her. It's a much better result than in the original story where her big plan is simply to get married!

twinks you worked the streets in Soho??!! I never knew ;)

Moll when I had my lap I had a blue bum and blue pant snot. When I first got off the bed in hospital I also thought I'd shat myself but the nurse assured me it was sterile cleany thing they wipe you down with. I'm still not convinced though, it was a real shit colour. Well done for getting through the day. How you feeling now?

Who had cystitis? How is it now?

GoodGollyCapnMolly, what a day! Thank God you were so precise about, you know, wanting to keep your womb. How are you feeling now?

Another awful one for stupid routes is The Apprentice - basically every journey takes them over Westminster Bridge and past the Houses of Parliament. Or past some shiny shiny landmark buildings in the City, when in fact they are travelling from their digs in Acton to a factory in Uxbridge or something.

It is funny when you see places you know on the screen and they get them all wrong. Ruins the story. My old school got used as a film set for something that was meant to be in South Africa.. Massively unconvincing.

Frank I see your point, she is an improvement on Conan-Doyles version. I do find Moffat's women even more annoying than Gattis', so that explains a lot! I think what bugged me about Irene Adler was that both Gatiss and Moffat only seem to understand female strength as being overtly sexual. I find their women rarely have actual personality, at least not nearly as much complexity of personality as the men, and there are so few women in it anywhere (or writing it, or directing it). But that's true of most media. (Take a look at the Bechdel test )

Feminist rant over. As you were.

The anaesthetic has worn off now, you might be able to tell by my grouchy outlook..

Twink I started with that too last night and really enjoyed it, but fell asleep! :( Droid is still a bit odd post-mc and I had a flood yesterday morning - went through a superplus tampon and a heavy towel in 2 hours. The floods always leave me feeling a bit wiped out. Hopefully we will watch the end of it tonight.

I saw a couple of episodes of the US version with Lucy Liu on the plane last month and really liked that.

moll I am really astonished at the attitude of the hospital. The more I think about it, the more it angers me. They have a woman in who has a lump discovered in the course of fertility investigations and they are surprised when she doesn't want all her reproductive organs whipped out. I mean, WTAF?!?

And I agree with your feminist rant. BTW, you know many men get annoyed with women asking what is going on in films and TV shows? I have a theory about that. Most of this stuff is written and directed by men, so the story is portrayed in a way that works for the way men think, but less so for women.

norf I agree - The Apprentice is terrible for that. Surrallan really works out of an industrial estate in Braintree or something, but the show makes out that the hub of the business is Canary Wharf. I think they actually have one office there or something.

Morning all not that I slept much! thanks for asking euro. She is scrummy and growing - got her weighed and she's now 6lb 13.5oz! Brilliant weight gain and supports my argument for exclusive breast feeding! Last night was a bit tough because she would only sleep next to me but often she sleeps for 4-5 hours at times so I count my blessings!

Take it easy today moll. First couple of days post anaesthetic can be rough!

I finally saw the end of Sherlock and I luffed it! :) I started with season 1, episode one. Next episode is on Thursday!

Yikes euro that's some hardcore bleeding :( Steak and Guinness for dinner tonight? I like the US version as well, but then I have a deep and enduring love for Lucy Liu.

Masterchef is another one that likes to show people crossing Westminster Bridge in taxis, no matter where they're going.

Poor sore moll.

Wow. I haven't just killed this fred, I've slaughtered it.

Sorry, busy packing for New York

I would be if I weren't shopping for new sandals for the south of France at the weekend

I was back at work today, for those who are interested nobody It was very tiring. I cleaned out my desk from my old, much loathed role. I almost felt a tiny pang of sadness then I remembered I despised almost every moment I spend in that office.

Think positive Winks. You have left your horrid old job. Things will be better now.

Some exciting news from the west: my Hoover part has finally arrived. I can vacuum. Lo and behold, the musty horrible smell has disappeared

That must rank as my most boring post ever. Please don't hate me.

I could never hate you rie. Well, maybe if you became a smug instadiffer or something and suddenly popped out 5 sprogs, each 9.5 months younger than the previous one.

Twink on to better things. Including the south of France. We are going to try to fit in another visit to the outlaws this summer.

I'm glad your musty smell has gone hest. Today I had to vacuum the ceilings. They do get very cobwebby.

I had a late breakfast with HWCA in a Costa in the heart of yummy mummy central. A lady about my age came in with a little girl in a pram and with no warning whatsoever I started bawling my eyes out. What a dickhead. To think I had almost managed to convince myself I didn't really want a baybee that much.

Hair strokes, twinks. Funny how it catches you when you least expect it.

BE is attempting to rebuild the plumbing today and really not having a good time. I'm all useless and holey and watching him suffer. Poor bugger.

It's a blow to the solar plexus Depending on what the solar plexus actually is of course....

I have just spent five minutes usefully employed staring into a mirror at my sagging eyelids. Am considering plastic surgery.

My tube into work this morning was FULL of pushchairs (it was the morning rush - wtf?). I have to say, the whiney little shyte nearest me made me consider changing my mind about the whole enterprise.

(I am not at my best first thing in the morning.)

But Twink I completely get how it can just hit you sometimes.