Mid 30's TTC--Gin Palace Two: Spawn of the BESH

[SarahAbroad]

Hey all...

Hope this thread name is okay...just moved the Gin Palace around the corner before we ran out of space!

See you soon. The bar's open!

[NeedChoos]

Choccywoccy have a Tea shop and they do Seriously Chocolatey Teas - £20 as much Tea and Chocolates / Cakes and Champagne including Strawberries dipped in choc!! Now that is a well spent afternoon....

Chocolate Fountain Tasty or Tacky - I've never made my mind up - didn't have one for my wedding but been to wedding with them and thought meh....

[Scorpette]

Cosmo - Loveday is a groovy name. My friend's Gran was called that.

Ski - apparently in France they give you at least 10 sessions of tum-toning black magic and several with a giant 'internal muscle trainer', ie massive buzzy dildo. It's all 'pour la plaisir du homme' and shiz, but sounds funfunfun.

Plymouth was meh, but I bought loads of girly toiletries, dressed up reet fancy (she also laughs bemusedly at me for not wearing the same filthy, soiled crap clothes for a whole week running and using cosmetics), and ate my entire bodyweight in scrummy tapas. Don't need to be Freud to see what all that was a reaction to.

My Mum worked p-t with me (and I spent those days with my GPs and was spoilt rotten) and then SAHM when my bro was born, for nearly 10 yrs. It was ace when she was a SAHM, but equally, we weren't fucked up by her working and in fact, it was nice to see her being more independent and having her own life, etc. Luckily, as I am The ChristChild, as previously mentioned, whatever I choose re: my own future offspring 'will be the right choice'. Am I the only woman alive lucky enough to not have a Mum who tells her what she should do all the time? She has made me a mental in most other ways (she's a retired counsellor - say no more), mind, but she's pretty good on that front. Boast over. She looks like this, BTW:
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(this pic is a family in-joke )

I defo vote for the Gin Palce and Spa Resort - need it after this week

PS LOOOOOVE ChoccyWoccyDooDah - Skater, you are my hero re: your wedding cake

[SkaterGrrrrl]

Personally I wouldn't have a chocolate fountain at my wedding but each to her own.

Our cake rocked, it looked like this:

www.choccywoccydoodah.com/images/custom_cakes/item36.html

What's everyone up to this weekend?

[VeryAngryGusset]

Scorpette - and you most resemble your Dad, right? Great pic!

Mothers, eh? Who'd have 'em? Who'd be one? - errrrrrr

Choc fountain - good in theory but in my limited experience the choc isn't particularly good quality and I'd rather have cake. Plus white dress plus chocolate sauce would equal disaster where I'm concerned.

Actually despite my love of cake we had pudding followed by a cake-made-of-cheese. Was most wonderful. I did not get any and we had to recreate when back from honeymoon....

[VeryAngryGusset]

skater - cabbages? on a cake? marvellous!

This weekend I shall be mostly buying birthday presents and visiting my god-daughter. And sleeping. And probably should be humping. How about everyone else?

[extremesitting]

VAG I was just thinking as I was reading the cake related stream that I would much rather have a cake of cheese!!! Cheeeeeeesee Gromit!

My mother made the cake in my cake, then I had it professionally iced and wotnot. Truth is there was shag all money left for the cake once I have commissioned the cake topper. Don't regret it for a moment though... its proper lovely and I get to look at it everyday

My mother was, for the most part, a stay at home mum and she rammed that down our throats throughout us growing up and pretty much to this day. She "gave up her life" for us, has nothing because of us and what's the thanks she gets blah blah blah. If I ever get to be a parent I hope I don't moan at the offspring about all I did for them.

I have nowt planned for this weekend apart from RTOD. We shall see if it turns up. I would lay heavy bets that it will! Probably best not to see anyone....

[NeedChoos]

Love the cake...

My cake was choc and I had my wedding shoes copied in white chocolate at the top. My wedding shoes were truely the most beautiful peice of footwear I have ever seen. Vintage Cloe mmmm loved them

Still wear them round the house when feeling particularly down - oops did I say that out loud...

This weekend we are home alone so cock rockin will be on the agenda and having the house painted < comso - I raise your rockin' roll french doors>

Those 2 activities will not be done simultaneously, of course.

[extremesitting]

BTW - Humping IS a real name. So is....

Shitty - Latrine - Enema - Fartina - Fiddle - Isuck - Fuckley

I can confirm that there was a Cunty Hoel born in Warnham, Cheshire in 1849. Cunty Hoel was the wife of Dick Hoel. Fact.

[Scorpette]

Skater - you sicken me with your cake fabulousness. I must be the coolest AT ALL TIMES - stop threatening my supremacy

VAG - actually, I do look like my mum*! Except today, I look like that monkey if it was wearing a wig fashioned after the look of bimbos from an 80s Whitesnake video. VERY bad hair day today... When and if me and TYF tie the know, we want a cake-of-cheese. Cheeeeeese. I love cheeeeeeeeeese.

and Choos for your shoes I basically hate you. Am a massive shoeholic and am insanely jealous just thinking about it. Any pics gratefully received

Everyone here is so groovy and tasteful. And has proper jobs n shit. Why am I not a proper adult mentally yet but have wizened BESH ladybits? How is this fair

This weekend, I will mainly be... recovering from Teh Skank (We'll be setting off for home this avo - YAY!). After bathing in bleach for 3 hours, I will cook food with some actual flavour to it and wash my hands carefully throughout its preparation. I think me and TYF will just slob out and watch loads of DVDs and have some non-diffing sexy fun. I'll also be trying to stop myself doing an early preg test as RTOD is imminent

*Nut not as much as I'd like - she's not really a speccy monkey, she's a Size 8, stunningly pretty, etc.

[Scorpette]

'Nut as much'? Grrr.

[extremesitting]

Scorpette you are not alone. I'm not mentally an adult yet either. And I have wizened lady bits. Lets have a mojito drinking contest and see who chucks up first?

Step away from the early pregnancy test.

[idealcamel]

Skater loving the cabbage cake - is somehow making me think of The Nightmare Before Christmas/Coraline in its gorgeously spooky weirdness.

Am off to France for two weeks on Saturday, with RTOD set to turn up bang in the middle of lovely hols. Still, will take my mind off it by eating lots of langoustine and drinking wine. So not all bad.

Today I have spots and my boobs really, really, really, really hurt. Hello PMT, how I love thee...

[NeedChoos]

Do we need to agree the new Gin Palace name??

[SkaterGrrrrl]

Choos I think some new thread names were floated a few posts ago. Dont worry we will reconvene in the new thread, everyone synchronise your watches...

[extremesitting]

bet MY boobs hurt more than YOUR boobs ideal ....ooooouuchhhhhhh....

[VeryAngryGusset]

extreme - I think Latrine sounds quite French and chic. Avarice is rather pretty too.

Love the idea of shoes you can eat - I demand a cake shaped like a shoe! Bring me one now!

Can we have servants in our next palace? And can someone remember to pack the puppies?

[VeryAngryGusset]

Scorpette re your announcement about us all being cool and together etc. I see no evidence of this. Please make your case.

[Scorpette]

Well M'Lud Vag others on here seem to be married and have proper, important jobs an' be able to afford french doors and vintage designer shoes and proper grown-up stuff like that and drink cool boozy concoctions, whilst I am a neurotic, feckless and penniless writer doing a rubbish (yet fun) p-t job who doesn't drink or like going out and who can't cope with the realities of, erm, well, of 'RL'. I had a cry last night because John Hughes has died - are those the actions of a mature woman?

In my defense, I am very good at saying no, organising stuff and complaining to/hassling useless jobsworths on the phone or in person re dodgy bills, etc. So I guess I have some adult-points in my favour

[VeryAngryGusset]

I think you will find that we married types did willingly and with malice aforethought marry for the cake and the presents. And that while our jobs may be "proper, important" ones to a casual onlooker, I can conclusively prove that we are in fact pissing about on internet forums and not really working at all.

[VeryAngryGusset]

You Can't Handle The Truth!

(I've always wanted to say that!)

[NeedChoos]

T'is true. I have been fannying around taking pics of chocolates, booking cats into cattery - which by the way has just started "cat reiki" - and perving at my next shoe aquisition...

All the whilst holding up the pretence of being incredibly busy preparing a launch strategy document...

[idealcamel]

Day fucking nineteen of my fucking cycle and I'm bleeding. Because as we all know, the RTOD has to turn up at the most inconvenient moment possible.

Am clearly trying to convince myself that this is an implantation bleed - am 7dpo according to charts on Fertility Friend. But let's face it, ladies, it's game over again this month.

I am sad.

[SkaterGrrrrl]

Tough break, kid.

[SkaterGrrrrl]

[idealcamel]

Cake! Made of shoes. Yup, I feel a bit better now. Also eating close to own body weight in cherries, which is nice.

On the bright side, should mean that bonking on holiday could possibly result in a baby, which would be nice.