30s TTC - Our BESH GussetWatch Ever, With Guest Star Joe Mangel!

[Scorpette]

Come on in, you raddled old caaaaahs, whotchoo waitin' for?

I've gone for a groovy 60s psychedelic theme, so get your fat upper arms comfy in the hanging globe chairs and hide your mememe shame in the glow of the lava lamps!

Russell Howard is our new bartender, although I don't think he's happy at the flares 'n' kipper tie outfit I've forced him to wear. And of course, Mitchell is in the pit, nervously awaiting his first guest.

Let's make this one diffalicious!

STEP AWAY FROM THE PISS-STICKS!

No good ever comes of it.

I have finished my report and am going to celebrate in the time-honoured fashion (going to bed early with a Horlicks. ROCK AND ROLL!).

PS I will now be voting Labour.

It's ok. My laziness beat my menkulness.

We live to piss another day.

I shall continue to vote for Cleggy and his big third leggy as no party is left-wing enough for me

Am genuinely scared of how shit things would be under the Cuntservatives . With all the pro-Lib Dem feeling about at the mo, if the blues get in, this will be remembered as a time when we could've made a real change but fucked it.

Thus ends my political broadcast. Vote for MEEEE!

This - starts knitting espadrilles out of recycled Guardians - made me laugh. A LOT.

I've just been on the Politics threads. Did you know that party activists are actually infiltrating MN and scaremongering? I can't believe it! I know this is the MN election and everything but how stupid do they think we are?

Sorry, back to being a bitter hag rather than a naive innocent who's scandalised at Party skullduggery politics.

I didn't even know there WERE politics threads Gemini

Well I like to explore you know? Keep myself informed . I even posted about knickers on the Good Housekeeping thread the other day, just to see what would happen. And Education is quite interesting, for a former teacher like me. I'd say on the whole MN readers are fairly left leaning.

Cunty, we are truly great minds thinkin' alike today, cos my usual catchphrase for stereotypical hippy types is 'mungbean espadrilles'. My Bossfriend calls them 'Yoghurt Knitters', which is genius. I am an old-skool loony lefty in every sense except for my wardrobe. Looking good isn't a betrayal of the proletariat, sistahs! WORK IT!

I didn't know there was a politics bit eever. I try looking for interesting sections, can't seem to find any and just reside here and enjoy obsessive lurking in AIBU and relationships, where the white meat is (I mean that metaphorically, not racially, for anyone slow on the uptake ). I used to lurk on Baby Names but that way madness lies.

*Am not actually joking here. Know the words to the former, heart the latter.

I'm reading a book wot my muvver bought me for my birfday about Britain in the 70's and it is truly fascinating. Cheerfully admit I knew very little about the running of the country prior to Thatcher, except anecdotally ref 3 day week, lights out, piles of unburied. V interesting to know what the in depth political situation was at the time

Phew. PHEW! Some very relieving news this eve. My BF's little boy has glandular fever not leukemia. Thank God (coming from an utterly undevout agnostic wishy washy).

Good news indeed, RussellGrant! I mean, glandular fever is no walk in the park but thank Charlie Mouse it's not the big C.

Talking of positive health developments, what news of PapaLyra? I do hope he's getting loads better

Hellooooooo? Echoooooooooo!

My LP is mocking me now by having a secondary rise after DPO5, which would normally be a sign of updiff. On the other hand, it bodes well for my LPD sorting itself out.

6 months today I will be 38. Waaaaaah!

PS Is also 6 months till my birthdaytwin's b-day (Lyra). I wouldn't forget that

Day 31 in the laurie-gusset & no droid...........

Conversation with the boyf last night:
Boyf: What day are you on?
Laurie: 30
Boyf: exciting, isn't it?
Laurie: and terrifying
Boyf: Yeah, but exciting
Laurie: and terrifying
Boyf: but mostly exciting

You get the drift.........

The droid has however arrived at the end of day 31 in recent months, so still too early to POAS.

scorps your needles lady sounds a dream! So sorry for your tales of woe, you really have been through it, haven't you? Come ere & have a nipple tweak.

aries good news re BF's little boy. Not that he has gladula fever of course - you knows what I mean.

grumpy I heart you. We love fresh meat in the Palais........

gin, lyra - you lurking lovlies. Hope you're both OK. Muchos missos you both

Laurie! I'm still lurking and waiting for possible results - i'm with Boyf on this one! Exciting is what it is. I'm in total awe of your self-control in not POASing and will not weaken that resolve by urging you to. But waiting for news! Everything crossed for ya missy!

Waves to all other Beshes!

LAURIE! Is looking v good, am excited Am I allowed to yell POAS at you yet? And fanks for the nipple tweaks. Mmmmm....

Will be making offerings and prayers to GoddessLyra for a droid-free D31!

Also big smooches to the lurkers

EEEEEEK! How exciting/terrifying (delete as appropriate) Lozza! Crossed everything.

In continuation of the humorous Geordie theme:
"Day 25 in the Aries household. Aries has a slight stabbing sensation in left boob after having had some utterly fucked up dreams in the early hours about giving birth to a cat "

Has anyone read the Louis de Bernieres book in which the president's wife gives birth to a black jaguar? Maybe that was one my mind. Though I haven't read it for years.

Just lurking ... still head-spinning with this whole re-training thing (not helped by 2 saying I'd have a glittering career (and in only one case is that flattery possibly directly related to the size of my buzzwams). Dropped a hint to my Chairman however, who either thinks I couldn't possibly do it and therefore chose to ignore it, or didn't pick it up. I HATE THIS...Loz am proper excited, sausage, when is the POAS moment?

Score I want your needles lady STAT! She sounds angelic!

Aries am very pleased and relieved about the wee lad. What a terror that must have been. I shall 'SEE' you later

Well I can do terrified, youse lot & the boyf can do excitement - that's all bases covered, non?

Told the boyf I was terrified in equal measures of being diffed & not being diffed. But he'd lost interest by then & was snoring

POAS day is Sat. If I get that far it will be day 33 (not completely unheard of in the laurie-cycle, but still). I have not even tempted fate by writing day 31 in my diary, I won't until I clear the day. I also have not ventured to Boots to buy said stick as 1. I would not be able to resist if I had it with me 2. The scent of a POAS will entice the droid.

aries how long are your cycles usually? Either you're thinking of that book, or just menkal. I dreamt once that someone sitting next to me in geography class in school suddenly grew a tail. But we were studying A Midsummer Night's Dream. I never could look at her the same..........

28-31 days.

It was an unusually vivid dream I must say. Weird dreams=diffed. Doesn't it? Doesn't it everyone?

Am admiring your self restraint Laurel but truly, I have nothing else in my day to look forward to, so would you mind doing it anyway, just for me? ta muchly...

I like your thinking Cass. Seems a perfectly reasonable request to me.

Aries yes, vivid weird dreams = diffed. I am rooting for ya and Lorry this month. Scorps did you have any secks this month? As you know I had the temp rise on day 6 and it stayed way up there. Well until I had that one blip utter meltdown and had to put the thermometer away.

Lozzer I am soooo hoping this is it for you and you don't have to endure any more of the psycho Clomid evil drucks.

Aries I am v relieved to hear your friend's little boy is ok. Well, ok as in not cancer. And was it also you whose friend's 17 yo daughter is going through all that nastiness? Was so and for them, how awful.

Right, what else has happened? I can't keep up... Oh HeadRush you did make me cry laughing... the image of you having a rummage in your lady garden whilst at your desk will stay with me for ever. Wrt the re-training I reckon you should just go for it. Who knows what will happen and 2 years is not v long, espesh for a young BESH like you - there is never a perfect time to plan a baybee and they rarely come when you want them to anyway so you may as well sort your career out. You will find a way of fitting it all in.

I also did not know there was a political bit to MN.

You mean there are other bits to Mumsnet other than here and AIBU?

Aries am adding to the gladness that the news about your friend's son is (relatively) good. Must be such a relief for everyone.

I did the whole career change thing in my mid-twenties, changing from one badly paid career to another.... Fortunately I didn't have to fund my retraining, but it did mean living on next to nothing for a while (although marrying TH did help with that side of things, although despite what his mother thinks that's not why I married him). Took a lot of soul searching to get there, and I wasn't worrying about babies and things at that point, but I'm so glad I did it.

Laurie I'm so impressed with your self restraint and have fingers and all crossed for you.

Thanks everyone for kind thoughts re BF's little soldier. Gave me a warm glow. He's my most favouritest child and if I have a boy I want him to be just like him.