All aboard Minster's Ovulation Tea Party Bus - TTC away from cat poo Bus 38

[Minster2012]

I hereby invite you all to Minster’s First ever Eggy Tea Party...🥖🍍🍔🍦🍰🍫🧁held to celebrate the even slightest whiff of an Easter Ovulatory event...

Don’t fear Boris, it will be outside, socially distanced at various points of the UK & Ireland (other parts of the globe may attend), whatever the 🌞❄️⛄️we are up for it & often the sperm & 🥚stay apart at our gatherings too, even though we don’t want them too 🤣.

It’s a bring your own event, private chefs & hello fresh/gousto boxes may attend, pics of your offerings encouraged...🥦🌽🌮🥘🍝🍻🍹🍸🧉🍾☕️🍵🧃🥤🧋

Get your glad rags on ladies Cos we are having a party 💃🏼👯‍♀️👫& we can go OUT now! (Well we are done with stopping in aren’t we?)

This bus is the one where TTC happens in many different forms, shagging conventionally, unconventionally, with the help of scientific intervention, IUI/ICSI/Clomid/IVF & even just watching from the top of the bus 👀. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been trying for days, weeks, months or like some of us we’ve been around each other for so long we can’t bear to leave, nothing is TMI and there’s never a silly question...

Hell we KNOW TTC is tough, lots of us have had heart ache & are chasing 🌈so we are there for each other, as well as trying to have laughs along the way 🥰☺️

Oh and we like an embarrassing story to get your ticket for entry please!

And if you see mention of my blog then blame these guys they made me do it...#shamelessplug

minstermusings.co.uk for the blog that’s where the full stuff happens too explain my weird story & minstermusings on insta - some of our ladies have made special anonymous accounts so we can link up via me 🥰
If you want to sign up & get updates please do, please note your username if you comment shows up to others so maybe make it anonymous I won’t be offended 😂🤣(unless you are mean)

Story so far...

June 24 BFPs
July 11 BFPs
August 18 BFPs
Sep 4 BFPs
Oct 7 BFPs
Nov 7 BFPs
Dec 14 BFPs
jan 7 BFPs
February 8 BFPs
March 5 BFPs

What will April bring? 🐣

Back home about to check in, just pondering what new wellibobs to wear dog walking both kids size 🤣

@paintfairy cramps, from pasta?? Is that what you are pondering?? from the shots I guess!

What have I missed? I still need to get on with ordering gousto, got distracted by all the clothes today!

Ooo are we all moving over to gousto? My second hello fresh box is coming tomorrow but was looking at gousto earlier. I've heard it's better but i didn't want to sign up before looking which is what it asks. Any opinions on it ?

@Minster2012 I love both but I think pink ones today! 🦋🦋🦋

@lucyrp I definitely prefer Gousto, so yummy and the flavours work well i thought.

@Justanothercyster what's better about it? Hello fresh looks so good for next week as there is chicken Kiev's and sirloin steak 🤤 but been debating gousto!

@lucyrp I'm finding the recipes yummier and a bit higher quality! Oh and there seems to be loads more to choose from? I just got bored of hellofresh tbh, they recycle the recipes a lot.

I've got a 50% off code as well if anyone wants - it does give me credit though when you use it, just to be transparent!

@Juno231 does it work out much more expensive than hello fresh?

@Minster2012 I like the blue ones
@Juno231 better disclosure than the cabinet😂

Sending you all some Friday love! Primary school places not as much as sh*t show as it could have been given we’re moving 150 miles between now and September.
Away with the siblings and decided not to gaffs tape a bag of the sperminators best spooge to me as am only in flashing smiley territory.
@larrythelizard thought of you when the sperminator buckled under the pressure somewhat and found the time pressure challenging. Felt quite sad how fertility sucks all the joy out of those moments.

Anyway, it’s so nice to be somewhere that isn’t my house, having slightly less time to think about my god forsaken ovaries.

Having a gin and tonic. Love to you all

Sorry no idea why that post seems to have come up hours later than I sent it?! Bizarre!

@Juno231 I'll have another 50% off code if you'd send another to me please! I've just used @Crazydoglady123's and they look amazing! Happy to sign DH up and give you credit too 🤣😂

I just like mixing things up a bit with our normal meals too, I really loved our meals from hello fresh this week though, especially last nights, even if the aubergine🍆gave us both wind!

@paintfairy are you really in pain now? Pasta pain or IUI pain?

Sorry I feel I missed a lot?! In a few hours what?!

DH has just tried on the 4 coats I got him & the gilet and decided he's gonna keep them all as he wears them for work too, I have ONE joules gilet (not bought today) & DS promptly spilt my own drink down it this evening. So now my own gilet is ruined and I'm ruing not getting myself one. 😬🙄but got myself a couple of dresses in anticipation of nice weather 🤞🏻

Wow that's the dream being in a different 4 walls @pennysays! Sorry to hear your DH cracked, funny isn't it that sex can be so unsexy?!

@Minster2012 my vote is for blue, I like the bee.

We used to have Gousto and I was always really impressed (and I do still sometimes cook the recipes from the recipe cards). Never tried Hello Fresh though so no comparison.

Sorry to hear you're in pain @paintfairy - is that normal after your treatment (was it IUI?)? Sending love 💚

@pennysays was it primary school deciding too today? I thought it was only bigger ones, so it was ok then? Where are you moving from to? You don't have to say if you don't want to. It's so frustrating when TTC isn't fun 😞

@lucyrp I went with pink fir the afternoon walk! 🦋🦋🦋

@Minster2012 the older ones was 1st March, hence my saga, primary today, I did think, blimey you are going for walks late.... but you’re not bonkers after all, is the coat not fixable?
@pennysays ooh, fancy

@Franklydear ahhh I see on the schools my bad sorry next year I will be more I touch with that! (Well November I think we decide?!) well I will wash it but we'll see. 🙈

@lucyrp I'd say roughly the same price but 4 meals instead of 5?

@Minster2012 sending it through DM! (that totally autocorrected to cm...)

@Franklydear haha tell me about it the dirty buggers. I'm an accountant though and really struggle with the whole transparency thing - white lies make my ass sweat!

@Minster2012 it was risotto tonight! But I was not impressed to be honest. DH said it should have been fluffy (he did it) but one no idea. Just all tasted of lemon to me! That was my issue.
I've no idea if the stomach thing is the shots? Does it do that? Because I had a funny period i really couldn't decide. But actually I then couldn't decide if it was more digestive than AF type pain and I honestly couldn't decide! It's just unpleasant. I've also had a migraine and only just got out of bed. I ended up going for a lie down straight after eating. It was one of those where you can't see. No headache. I don't get that often but I do odd times so I'm not sure if it's related to it either? Possibly is mind. I'm quite sensitive to stuff. 🙄 Joy. I'm just glad it's all falling whilst I wfh and luckily it's the weekend anyway.
As for wellies - its so dry here now everything is hard and cracked! Definitely none needed here. 🤣
@larrythelizard I've no idea if it's normal?! They didn't actually go through any of what to expect. Or ask how i was after the hsg thinking about it. Just showed me what to do. 🤷‍♀️
I was confused by @pennysays writing about the school and moving so far away. Because I read that post thinking it was from @Franklydear and was wondering how she'd not mentioning moving before now, when having all these school appeals etc. 🤣 I think I need to go back to bed......

Sorry I've missed an entire day on here! Been distracted by OH working from home... can't resist staring at him while he chops wood 🤤💪

@dkdk123 I need to check appointment letter but I don't reall it saying he HAD to attend so I may just call .. or play dumb and say he had vital work on?

@lucyrp I just found the produce much nicer, and from the recipes we've tried I found Gousto to be a bit more "cheffy" than Hello Fresh which felt a bit studenty to us haha. Each to their own I suppose.

Hey gang!!

@paintfairy I'm so sorry you're feeling rough 💕
@Minster2012 I need a full breakdown of joules purchases !!
@Franklydear when is test day?
@DOB78 hey lovely lady, how are things your end 💜💕
@lucyrp we've just finished a gousto deal and honestly I think hello fresh was better when we did that before! Gousto the food is a lot more faffy and we do it for speed 😂and ingredients have lacked a bit at times. But others have been fab!! And we've def got some recipe cards to save for future !

I'm recovered after the hysteroscopy now, also trying not to symptom spot at like 4dpo 😂😂😂 I'm with you @larrythelizard !!

@Tornado2Inc how are you doing ? Xxx

@Justanothercyster studenty? Are hellofresh doing pot noodles and oven pizza 😆

@blackcurrantqueen puufffffff! Don’t know, af due next Thursday, unsure if I should wait to be late....

@Minster2012 yaaay I do love both of those pairs to be honest 🦋😍

@Juno231 oo okay il have to have a look!

@Justanothercyster not sure il have the energy to be more cheffy in this trimester or the next to be honest 🤣

@blackcurrantqueen oh really ?? I think the only thing I'd say I'm not keen on the hello fresh is that they send 20% fat mince out and I've never bought such a high percentage fat mince. I only ever buy 5%😂

@lucyrp oh yeh that would annoy me too to be fair! We also buy 5%
I think gousto is good if you've got time to do them and want to try new things. I just haven't found it's made cooking easier / quicker which was why we were doing it really!