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Harry Potter and the rise of the BESH: Instadiffers, baby dusters and huns will be subject to the spell Evanesco!!.

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RaspberrySnowCone · 25/08/2013 14:01

Expecto Patronum

If you are you over 30 and have been ttc for over 12 months, are witch like or even better a complete hag and willing to abuse your powers of wizardry to conjure up gin by the bucket load, then fill out the Beshionnaire and join us if you dare in our battle against BESH curse.

Instadiffers and baby dusters will be turned into frogs and used in a potion.

Peskipiksi Pesternomi!!!

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RaspberrySnowCone · 08/09/2013 21:33

Trigger is done, blummin stings!

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FrankelInFoal · 08/09/2013 21:36

Well done rasp.

Sorry about the mizz, I wish I could say something to make you feel better, but worry anything I do say will just sound patronising.

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 08/09/2013 21:59

Wow rasp it didn't take long, did it?!? Well done you!

lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 08/09/2013 22:03

Group hug for the mizzness. I just got hit by a wave of "why me" on the way home from the clinic this morning. So completely sympathise.

evilgiraffe · 08/09/2013 22:31

Project Baybee is just a big heap of shit. It's almost inconceivable (hah) to me that for some people TTC is fun, or exciting. I feel like after over three and a half years of zero chance, we have absolutely no hope at all. And staring down the barrel of IVF #1 doesn't really help either - three cycles at six-month intervals (why, NHS?!) means we are pretty likely to be in exactly this position this time next year too. So really, I'm vaguely thinking about starting the adoption procedure at the beginning of 2015, which is fucking depressing. My friends are really kind and supportive, but they're all hopeful about IVF for us, whereas I can't help but feel it's an exercise in futility. All that is tempered by occasional ten-minute certainty that I'm going to be diffed with twins before Christmas, which only makes the whole thing more infuriating/depressing, and makes me feel that I am barking mad as well as barren.

Is it "just" the fertility stuff weighing on MATV, rasp? Can he change something about his work, if that's also a problem?

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RaspberrySnowCone · 08/09/2013 22:55

It's just fertility stuff Evil, we did talk a bit after I sat on the bed and sobbed, he said its just the thought of it being the culmination of the last four years, so much pressure for something that should be so easy. He's pretty indifferent about having kids. He's always said it would be nice if they came along but he won't be devestated if they don't as we have a good life and he's happy with that. He's getting on with all this for me. All that said though, he hates sitting in the clinics, the small talk, watching me go through all this. We'll both be glad when it's all done this time next week.

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OhBuggerMe · 09/09/2013 18:27

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cherrycoconut · 09/09/2013 20:55

Arm rubs and gin all round. Chin up BESH. Sorry to hear everyone is so low. Rough times.

bugs well done on having 'the chat'. Must be a weight off and the emotion should buy you extra sympathy so it definitely wasn't wasted! Maybe you should look for a release if you can though, I hear you, I'm not a natural cryer but sometimes it can really help.

Just now I'm fine unless anyone asks me if I'm fine... You know the score!

I really don't know if and how to have the IVF chat with my boss/HR. They know the details of my illness from when I fell apart earlier this year and what I'm going through ergo I presume they've put two and two and also suspect that pregnancy is an impossibility too. So I'm reaaally not sure how to explain logistics without going into TMI detail of donor IVF etc that I really don't want to go into. As the IVF is fairly unintensive as a recipient then maybe I can get away without. But then with any luck there'll still be an immaculate conception to explain away. What do you reckon BESH?

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FizzyFeet · 09/09/2013 21:05

Ha! Your comment made me laff bugs. I might put that in my recruitment questions: "Are you a dick?"

cherry it's a tricky one. Maybe have a chat with your clinic and see what they say about sick leave etc. I think I will tell my big boss but I'm not sure, as my immediate boss has just left and I don't want them to rule myself out of the running...

eurochick · 09/09/2013 21:45

I work in an industry where women are still discriminated against, so I'm not telling any bosses anything. I don't want my career held back for a pregnancy that might never happen.

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RaspberrySnowCone · 09/09/2013 22:03

It sucks that there is still so much prejudice against women because they carry the babies. It has such an impact in your career it's scary.

Things have been a bit better this evening, primarily because MATV has been out all evening so hasn't been here being all quiet and stroppy.

Right BESH, bed is calling seeing as how I have to be up at 5am to leave for the clinic. MATV is convinced it will be gridlocked but I'm really not sure. Motorways are a constant source of swearing and stress to him so you can imagine what he's been like with all the trips to the clinic!

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FizzyFeet · 09/09/2013 22:20

Good luck for tomorrow, rasp!

Bearfacedchic · 09/09/2013 22:25

Really, really best of luck Rasp. Sorry it's been so tough with MATV the last few days. Thanks

Sorry for the general mizzle surrounding the BESH too. I managed to swallow my tears on Sunday and luckily Ann too busy to really think too much in the week. But I know I have Sadness. Sigh. Trying to keep my chins up though.

So, what about if your employer is a Carholic institution then? Any thoughts? Would you tell? Although I think I have to as I have to present my HSG letter to them as evidence of my appointment. Hmm

FrankelInFoal · 10/09/2013 07:09

Good luck today Rasp, I'll be thinking of you & MATV. Hopefully you are well on your way to the clinic now.

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evilgiraffe · 10/09/2013 07:52

Good luck rasp, hope all goes well.

Bear, I have no idea what you mean by carholic. Are you a mechanic?

Mizzness abounds here too - I nearly cried when my parents went home yesterday, which is a bit much. It's been really nice seeing them, and my house is in much better nick now, with new paint everywhere ready for new floors in October...

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RaspberrySnowCone · 10/09/2013 08:14

Have arrived, MATV doing his bit although he's been gone a while which is making me nervous. Unless he's making the most of the pornos. The suppository is making me feel the need to poop too! 17 minutes to go...... Hmm

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FrankelInFoal · 10/09/2013 08:24

I have Burghley gossip as a distraction for the horsey ESH.:

A lady I work with fence judges every year at Burghley and this year she did Cottesmore Leap. She had to stop Jock Paget on his second horse as it was bleeding from the mouth and she said e ave her a load of attitude about it. Apparently he ignored the judge's red flag at the previous fence as he "thought it was a joke" (one of his other horses had been stopped at the same point on the course earlier in the day) and ignored her red flag and jumped her fence before stopping. She gave him a bollocking as she said he had no way of knowing she didn't have a fallen horse and/or rider on the other side of the jump and he would have landed on them.

He will probably get fined by the FEI for ignoring the flags, and it also turns out that his horse regularly bites his own tongue. If he'd told the ground jury before the start of the event they would never have stopped him as they would have had on record that the horse was known for it.

Finally she said he got really arsey about where she was restarting him from on the course, he thought she wanted him to jump her fence again but she told him to start from a tree on the other side Hmm. In the end he got held up because there was a fallen rider at the next fence and she had to move his start place 30 metres or so. She reckons he won Burghley because of her as he ended up only 1 second over the allotted time when, if he'd started from his original point he would have been more like 4 or 5 seconds over Grin

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RaspberrySnowCone · 10/09/2013 08:26

I saw jock and the interview he did after about the bitten tongue, he seemed really chilled about it on camera. I love behind the scenes goss :)

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evilgiraffe · 10/09/2013 08:55

Interesting, Frank. However, did you see the footage of him being stopped? The fence judge was not very obvious in her flag-waving at all, and then she practically stuck the flag under the horse's hooves before he took off. The commentators mentioned that she wasn't very clear too.

Having said that, there's no excuse for ignoring the flags at the previous fence! No excuse for being rude either - maybe he's been taking lessons from Mr Grumpy Andrew Nicholson?!

FrankelInFoal · 10/09/2013 09:16

I know draf, but everyone expected him to stop at the previous fence so they only had about 10 seconds notice to get someone on the course with a flag in a prominent position, it just wasn't possible!

CairngormsClydesdale · 10/09/2013 09:29

Oooh I don't hold with Mr. Paget, not sure what it is about him but he rubs me right up the wrong way. :( Reckon he's got a touch of the Rupert Campbell-Black's about him when it comes to "performance encouragement".

Good luck rasp!

CatsCantFlyFast · 10/09/2013 09:36

Rasp am delurking to wish you luck, got my FX for you both
Sorry for all the besh misery. However am not happy with use of the word mizzle to describe it as I luffs that word Grin
Loving the burghley goss

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RaspberrySnowCone · 10/09/2013 13:27

An home, I've eaten and not feeling to bad. Although my plans for a peaceful people free afternoon has been brought to a halt by MATV answering the phone to my mum and telling her I look pale and probably shouldn't be left alone so now she's rushing home to be with me :( I love my mum but I don't need someone to watch me sleep :/

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