The BESH plumbing is blocked up. Where's a man with a big tool when you need one?

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Welcome to the BESH plumbing thread, where we have blocked pipes, dirty u-bends and leaks aplenty.

Newbies are welcome to seek out the BESHtionnaire submit highly inflated quotes for consideration. Instadiffers will be massively overcharged and sent packing.

Hmmm, this job is gonna cost a bit

Good parents, Euro!

So.. BE and I had SFF last night (first shag for about 2 months - he's been away and/or depressed). We had made a resolution to be firmly not TTC for a bit until we sort our health issues out, but it's two years since we last used contraception and we couldn't remember where the condoms were. I just checked my cycle dates (had been trying to ignore them to help the un-menkulling). Pretty much bang on the most infertile time for me. Now I have two weeks of headfuckery to get through.

Any of you racing types like to place odds on a wildly inconvenient ironidiff?

Ok, I have to ask....having just read another thread about shopping.....how much do you spend just for the two of you? We easily spend £100-£150 a week. We tend to buy fresh, good quality stuff and MATV eats a lot but some people's weekly shop is £60 for a family of 4. I just can't see how I'd make a week of meals for £60??!!

Oh and well done for SFF last night Moll! Menkul away if you like although its probably best for reasons of retaining sanity to just forget about it and enjoy hopefully having some more SFF imminently!

Rasps If I do the weekly shop, it's about £60-£70. If BE does it, it's more like £100 because he buys things like olives, expensive cheese and posh chocolate whereas I fill the trolley with veg.
I have a feeling a lot of people feeding 4 on £60 are mostly buying spaghetti hoops and sliced white. Or they all have allotments.

I will try not to menkull.

Mmm, see we don't eat bread/rice/pasta/potatoes so I think that probably doesn't help cuz that sort of thing is cheap/bulky sort of food. Does scare me how much money we eat every week :/

We only have expensive supermarkets over here and spend £150 a week. It's insane!

I usually spend about £50-£60 per week, but Monday-Thursday it's only me and the cat! I find using the self-scanner thingy helps keep the bill down as you see how the cost is mounting up as you go.

I choose to go to Waitrose over the Co-Op (which is slightly cheaper on some things) because I can use the scanner. It definitely helps keep me focused!

I'm honestly not sure what our weekly food spend is. We get our shopping delivered (Ocado) roughly every ten days, but how much that costs varies wildly depending on the non-food requirements like shampoo etc. If I had to guess I'd probably say it's in the region of £60-70 per week on food for us and the cats.

We're probably about the same as you rasp. We do a weekly shop at the weekend that is around 80-100 and then KFZK picks up bits and pieces on his way home a couple of times a week and that really adds up.

We're quite into our food though. We both enjoy cooking. We tend to go all out at weekends and buy really good meat and fish and splash out then, but 2 or 3 nights in the week, we will just pick at cheese, ham, crackers and that sort of thing if we are in late, so that sort of evens it out. And we hardly ever eat out or get a takeaway now.

Have you seen the news? Apparently Zara isn't a BESH after all...

Oh really? :) for her and Mike and :( for us losing our mascot. Good timing for her, really, having got the Olympics out of the way and this year's Badminton too. She might well be able to do next year's Badminton, dates permitting - it's astonishing how athletes often manage to keep their training up.

She may still have been a BESH, we don't know. Mary King was still competing until quite late in her pregnancy - I'm sure I remember her riding round Badminton at about 7 months

Apparently she was doing some event on Saturday (Banbury?) - and took a tumble!

If I'm organised & do meal plan & online order we can get away with spending about £50-60. Otherwise we both get stuff on the way back from work & that always works out more expensive as we end up getting ready made or 'quick' things. Sainsburys do a feed your family type meal planner but everything is pretty bland.

We're both off work this week - the plan was to get stuff organised. I seem to have zero energy today though so am sitting on the sofa....

That'll be Barbury, I suspect, euro. It's a nice event! Falling off probably not too helpful, mind - I dread to think how much it would feed the menkul.

Bloody hell Bugs that's impressive. We always have a huge bag of multi pack crisps & biscuits like penguins or jaffa cake bars in for SSG's packed lunch. And ice creams. Can't beat a mini magnum . I definitely eat more junk now I'm a differ.