Mid 30's TTC - you're my BESH mate you are..... <hic hic>

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OOOh - Hope this'll do! Emergency!

Mallory Towers! Good referencing! One of the reasons I truly love the Palace is that fact that you are reminded of things you haven't heard for decades. Scorp wine the prize though for referencing Silver Cross and Mallory Towers within a 24hr period!

Now, lets be serios for a moment:

Sindy or Barbie?

Without doubt its Sindy for me...

wine the prize... No.... wins the prize... YES

I went to boarding school and mostly it was weirdos + bitchy cliques. I did however pick up the following skills : smoking, snogging boys waaaaaay too old for me and cajoling Russian fisherman in to handing over their vodka.

Funnily enough - I just fb'd a girl I "roomed" with and she was the skinniest wee thing back then - now she looks like some Wiccan earth mother.

Did we all read Jackie magazine as well? Or are there some cool kids who got Just 17? I was a sap and went for Jackie coz of the photo stories.

If I hadn't actually started my period I would be starting to think I was pg... Felt really sick this morning and then randomly burst into tears just as I was leaving for work - which ain't the kinda thing I normally do. However both can be attributed to the fact that I just couldn't sleep last night for some reason - managed to get an hour or so in as it was getting light. I think my body has realised it can conspire against me to fuck me off twice in a month instead of once. Got a splodge of brown last night to announce start of RTOD - then nothing for a bit - and I know full well that as soon as I start to think 'ooh maybe it was just spotting or whatever that bleeding when pg thing is called' I will get the full flow of RTOD thus dashing my hopes for a second time in a month

Where the hell is ginhag? She owes us some news...

I think the Hag is in cornwall, no?

Arses to all the babyfailers. I prescribe a couple of rounds of tequila slammers.

do you want a fanjo boil update? No? Well you're getting one anyway!

It burst!!!!!! The relief is indescribable.

I got home last night and decided to put a hot flannel on it as some googling (urgh) had revealed this might help clear it quicker. I got as far as brushing it with a finger and it spunked green lumpy goo all over me. I practically drowned in the stuff. At my shriek of horror, TGO came running to admire my Green Tide of Doom and we both stared in fascination as I filled the bathroom up to our knees in it.

Who says romance is dead???

Anyhow, lordy do I feel better now! I swear I must have lost about 3lbs. And I can sit legs together all feminine like again in stead of a manly legs wide apart as if terrified of squashing my balls.

Mmmm, thanks Cosmo, I was eating whilst I read that! [projectile vomit emoticon]

Glad it's gone, anyhoo

Poor Longwee

Thankee extreme for my Referencing Prize. I'm a bit of a pop culture maven, whereas TYF hasn't even heard of stuff from his own teens It's got to be Sindy for me AND Jackie, of course! When I was @11, two grown sisters down the road who used to babysit gave me their massive Jackie hoard from the 70s and it was a-mazing! Think it's left me with an obsessions about things like dry shampoo and rainbow platform knee-boots, but never mind.

Well, am bit worried. Having womb crampings BUT they're different from what I've been having; these had that sort of feverish discomfort (iykwim) that pre- and post- worst period pain day pains have. And it's on the left, like p pains. And the left nip has started hurting a bit again. Worried something had been happening but has gone wrong. All knicker- and loo roll-checking is showing nothing, hurrah. Still feel sick as a dog, mind. Aaaaargh, the torment! Less than 48 hrs now till R2D2 should show up so I will be hoping like I've never done before that nothing menstrual happens!

BTW ski - I wish to hear more of these boarding school days. Sounds interesting!

Sindy here too, Barbie was whispers common.

Bleurrgh. GTOD is just wrong. Cosmo, your posts should come with a health warning at the moment. Although yay! for disappearance of angry boil.

I read J17 (briefly) but was mostly about Smash Hits. Somewhere in my parents house I have the Brother Beyond flexi disk that came free on the cover.

And the Chalet School - kicked Malory Tower's arse, frankly. Boarding school! In Austria! Fighting Nazis! (only in one book admittedly.)

And Sindy every time over Barbie - my mother thought she was more "realistic" (wtf)?

I was a huuuuuuge chalet school fan! I was desperate to go there. I still have them all in the loft at my dad's house.

Cosmosis - I believe such inflictions are more common with us riders, be it riders or cyclists. Sweaty vags et al.

wee Bunty and Mandy for me, plus the entire Enid Blyton collection, the Pullein-Thompson sisters for horsey lit - I was never really in to Jackie - the boys in the photo stories all looked like what we would refer to in modern times as "rat boys" - you know, semi-grown taches and grey leather jackets.

Scorpette It was very "modern" and it was a mixed boarding school. "Good morning new pupil, here is your room key, your list of rules and your 3 month supply of combined pill". I hated it - every single minute of it - although I did get to watch a disproportionate number of "slasher" videos. The matron was a geriatric old bitch who wouldn't have known the difference between mary poppins and freddy kreuger. I had the piss ripped out of me because I was a modern gal up from London and wore a clip-in bow in my hair a la Sarah Ferguson.

Sindy without a doubt, though I never did get the horse & carriage that I wanted to go with it. Used to borrow my brother's eagle-eyes action man as Sindy's boyf. Maybe that's where my obsession with shaved heads comes from.

Also Jackie. My friend & her boyf (now hubby) were in Jackie!!!! Stopped in the street & asked what they fancied about each other. She still has the copy now.

cosmo congrats on the GTOD. Whilst there is not such thing as TMI on this thread, that comes pretty damned close.

My RTOD has finished for another month, so here we go SWI again. Also boyf has spunk-in-a-jar appointment next week, & I have my appointment with poss dildocam 2 weeks later. Phew, its all go this month!

Who's with me on a trip to Cornwall to hunt down ginhag to find out her updiffed/non updiffed news. Selfish lady!!!

LOL @ ski your description of semi-grown tash & grey leather jacket is PERFECT for friend's hubby.

HAHAHA

Ahhh, Chalet School. God, I want to read them all again NOW!

Barbie was defo common, the hussy.

ski Faxing? How retro. I'd post pictures of mine on Facebonk.

Were you at Atlantic College, btw? Sounds suspiciously like my friend's description of the boarding school she had to leave because she was having too much sex fun and thought she might not pass her IB.

camel Nope, just some remote scottish hell-hole. I loves retro, I've got a filofax and everyfink! Despite working at the cutting edge of communications technology I trust pen & paper! I love faxing I do. Seriously, I hate phone calls to utilities companies - I like to F.A.X. - it's a letter, delivered at speedy-time.

Ooh, for all of you involved in yesterday's "will I find love if I admit to being a feminist" - I love this song

For some reason I always manage to put the paper in the wrong way round when faxing. May shed some light on the TTC right hole debate, now I come to think of it.

I'm lurking in a corner of the Palace, actually doing some work for once.

Just popped in to say:

1. Cosmo - I bet your GTOD was awesome to witness and very satisfying (I love squeezing spots and teasing out ingrown hairs, so this is off the scale) - but I think we have finally reached the footthills of TMI.

1. Jackie, Just 17, Bunty AND Mandy (especially the Christmas annuals - bliss). Enid Blyton: Mallory Towers AND St Clare's.

1. Don't go looking for thehag in Cornwall - she's sailing round the Greek islands, innit?

Will someone please knock me out for the next five days so that I can stop obsessively symptom-spotting, please?

Ta.

I thought haggy was in cornwall for the BH weekend then in Greece in couple of weeks time. Just keen to know about her diffyness...

That do the trick?

Oh fuck sorry lushes. Am not diffed.was all very fucking confusing,what with the blue line and all.

Been in cornwall,then 2 days flat out at work and a bit depressed,now trying to get sorted for sailing... Think I have extreme's tummy bug thing tho,feel crappy (literally).

Am also going to have to rewire my brain as being obsessed with the SWI business is not doing the rest of my life any good.have to somehow stop thinking about it or I will go fucking mental.don't want to leave the palace tho cos you lot makes oi larf.

cos I am delighted to hear that you have erupted.must be a relief.

scorp hope R2D2 stays the fuck away.

All babyfailers-bollocks innit.pints of wine all round.

Everyone else-drunken snogs.

I'm on the countdown to sailing now,had practise in Cornwall and can almost remember what to do!

I now have to work out a way to stay on what is (ostensibly at least) a TTC thread without getting obsessed with TTC. Hmm tricky.

Hey gin glad to have to back. Sorry to hear about the lack of up-diffedness - what a sack of hairy bollocks.

I know what you mean about not wanting to leave the craziness comfort of the palace but also needing to stop obsessing.

Answers on a post card please.

gin Boo sucks to lack of updiffed. Nice to hear from you, though.

Who has babyfailed? I only read the last page of the threat this morning.

gin & laurie Am pretty sure that hanging out here encourages the craziness, but also like all the people, so is difficult to fuck off. Am saving my posting for moments when I need to distract myself; like today, when I have been writing cover blurbs for books about motherhood.

Hey ginny - good to have you back but sorry for building up your potential preggedness when it ain't. Kick in the shins from me. ..

Yup, ditto on the SWI lunacy. I am really quite bored of obsessing now - after 8 months of nut'n (much) I need something new to worry about. The palace has been a bit quiet for a couple of days so am guessing it might be a similar feeling all round...

Tell you what, shall we get pissed?