30s TTC - We Started TTC When the LAST Coalition Government Was In Power

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BESH is BACK for Spring. Come in, admire the cocktail bar stylings I have created for you. It's all lowlights and smooth sounds, and there's a rehearsal room in back for the GLEE practice.

The barman are beautiful, the Pit has been well stocked with beanbags and gin. So roll up all you 30-something BESHies who stopped counting cycles sometime in the last century, and grab a martini.

By the way, Pollster I'm sorry if this sounds mean but the story of your day of baby-brain did make me chuckle! Hope you've been more with it today.

Still stupidly tired and emotional, but that could just be BECAUSE I'm tired. My norks were a bit hurty tonight but spent the afternoon trying on new bras so maybe they were just fed up of being manhandled.

Who can say? Really not menkulling this month, don't know why. Maybe it'll hit me tomorrow. Am drinking a lot of wine, maybe that's it!

Maybe....

I have no symptoms. None.

Right, I am going to have scale right back on the baby talk this month. MrM is starting to look like a frightened bunny. This has never happened before. I think he's feeling Under Pressure and we need a warm up month.

Please tell me not to make my lovely man menkul.

Back away from the husband Muse. Don't make him menkul.

A man's ago is a very delicate thing. I didn't realise quite how fragile until we started. "You only want me for my sperm. WAAAAAH" etc.

ago EGO. Duh.

I don't think they like knowing too much detail about fertile times etc - I had the same issue with MrM about the second or third month in, so had to be a bit more vague (apart from last month with the excited eggy monitor news.)

Thing is, it was even prime eggy time! I just fancied it. Can't win. Pfeh.

Seriously though, I forgot that's he quite scared of things going wrong again. And feels partly responsible for putting me through badness. So it's all a bit daunting. Especially as neither of us felt like it for quite a long time because of that, and now it's all awkward and fumbly. And not in a good way.

The Frolickers have gone baby insane. We've had a few announcements on the miscarriage thread. But everyone just sits around scared for weeks there as we're all convinced our babies will fall out.

Hello all .

Yay for Humpster!

Boo for Lolly

I'm either on CD25 or CD1 - not sure yet, my gusset is playing silly beggars. If the latter, then it's another stupidly short cycle.

Aries, I don't know how you can cope with the frolicking. Is it a welcome break from the darkness of the BESHes?

I'm off to a spaaa (relaxing kind, not cheap cider kind) until Friday, then v. fancy wedding on Saturday. I'm worried that we, the Northern contingent, will look like the cast of Shameless compared to all the City boys and their womenfolk. Any tips?

HO is one of the best men, so I will be left with all the women who will ask me why I haven't got any baybees when most of them have got two or three each. Fortunately (for me, not them) there are three others who have either had or are waiting for IVF, so I won't be entirely outnumbered.

Lyra can I come to a spaaaa with you? I'm Welsh so will make you Northerners look sophisticated

Course you can VAG, as long as you admit that is more than just a cushion up your jumper, and tell me what being updiffed is like. Perhaps I will stalk you over in't Deli - or are you STILL in De Nile?

Stalk away Lyra - De Nile is still occasionally visited but practicalities are forcing more staycations. It is also fair to say that diffedness is quite a different experience for each PESH but today I am quite high on caffeine, hormones and the prospect of a final relaxing holiday before the hurricane....

Ooh, where you going on hol?

Portugal I've a pal who is a travel agent and recommmended a brand-new resort there, otherwise would prob not have thought of Portugal. Resort is right on the corner of the ocean so will be a bit windy and cool but hopefully there'll be sheltered parts too for laying about, wading through a stack of books between meals and naps, and having TSF Bring Me Things.

Sounds great. I always think June is the best time to go on hol. I'm going to Nice for a few days with a friend in mid-june, so am also praying to the volcano gods.

Have you got One Fine Day to read? And the new Maggie O'Farrell? And The Other Hand? And anything by Marian Keyes?

Ooh, none of those. I've got Kafta on the Shore (read another Murakami last holiday and loved it), James' Portrait of A Lady (never read before) and am half way through Middlemarch. TSF read Cathedral of the Seas last holiday and says I would like so am taking that too - I am forever recommending books to him so it's only fair that I read a recommendation of his once every 5 years or so.... I've never read a Marian Keyes, but I did read Maggie O'Farrell's After You'd Gone and blubbed uncontrollably so haven't braved another one! Will have a look on Amazon at lunchtime.

Nice sounds lovely, it'll be beautiful in June. I think June's a great time to be away too - though I'm not actually supposed to be away now as it's year-end and the auditors are out....am very lucky boss is understanding of my biological deadlines...

In answer to your question LyraSilvertongue, I've just decided that no I can't cope! I need a break. But they're very lovely.

Enjoy your Spar.

Oh I LOVED Norwegian Wood, is that the one you've read?

Never read Marian Keyes ! Recommend Is Anybody Out There or This Charming Man.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMPS!

Oooooh, VAGGY! Haven't seen you for a while! Have finally replied to yer msg, my lovely. Hope you have a lovely time in Portugal. Having decided to do 'trips only', am now insanely jealous of 'proper' holidays I like your priorities - laying about, reading and getting your man to bring you stuff. Hell, if that constitutes a holiday, I'm on hols every night and weekend! Good luck with the volcano!

This Charming Man is excruciatingly funny as well as excruciating. Lola is the best character ever. I'm not very discerning in my taste of books - I will read (almost) anything. Mum used to say I'd read the back of a bus ticket when I was little if there was nothing else available.

Must dash.

DASH

Off to Spar, see you on Mon

Enjoy your Spar, you swanky swankstress, you!

Arse! I missed Lyra! Hope she has a lovely Spar (which is now some sort of weird boxing/wooden beam/crap corner shop hybrid in my head, and not a place where one has beauty treatments).

I read this last night . For work.

scrofulous We hasn't booked a holiday yet either. Because TNB read Zita West and is now concerned about my core temperature rising during early pregnancy,so we can't go anywhere hot