Swagger Inn Thread 101 - we're out & we're proud of our love for The Musketeers

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So, we have passed our 100,000 posts of Musketeer-related musings & as befits such an achievement, we got our shout-out on Twitter from Jess Pope Any lurkers out there, come on in & state your boffing order.

In the spirit of celebration, I am also imposing the rule that everywench's first post in here has to be accompanied by a pretty Musketeers pic. Don't let me down now mis wenchitas.

Have just had an hour-long catch-up with a frend on the phone. So much for watching the end of Agents of Sheild, but it was a nice catch-up. And now I'm ready to sleep.

Night all

I'm off too. Bit distracted by the snug and pictures tbh.

Big cwtch for all needing wenches. In fact big cwtch for all of you.

Night night.

If this was any woman other than Queenie strutting with TM, I'd want to kill her.

Fancy you have redeemed yourself. This thread is fab, all this pretty is proper wenching like the good old days.

Btw, I had the weirdest dream last night, I was in a big mall, running around looking for cake

Night wenches

Did you find cake ww? If not, then surely it was a nightmare? Night, sweet (cakey) dreams.

I don't think I did

Drinking decaf and eating birthday cake after evening of delousing the kids. All very 17th century but where's my 17th century musketeer? Where?

Anyway random things from thread if I can remember them:

Rar! Some RA action. Do love a bit of RA and as he's only twoonths younger than me, it feels less like cradle snatching

badders no such thing as being a bf failure, some baby and mother pairs just don't work and support in the UK for bf if you do have an issue is lamentable. I found bf-ing a doddle after the first 7 weeks with ds1 (which were hell) and it was easier second time around and am still feeding ds2 who is 3.5yo, bI can't squeeze a baby out of my vag for love nor money. Emergency Caesareans for both so I completely fouled up as far as the natural childbirth lot are concerned. And yes with ds2 I probably could have popped him out had the midwives cottoned on to what was wrong earlier in labour but ds1 would never have come out by himself and back in the 17th century I probably wouldn't have survived to sprog no. 2. And then I'm crap at growing them as well, the dc were pregnancies nos 3 & 10. So I'm def less of an all rounder in the motherhood stakes than yourself

My sons paed calls it being born "through the sun roof"
I have had mc too. And a threatened one with ds1.
Being a women is....complex isn't it?

Crikey Issy, sounds tough! I too had Caesarian sections for both DC. DD (9) got stuck after 2 days of labour so emergency. Not surprising as she was 10lb 11oz!! I too would have died in 17th C. DS (7) was elective supposedly and he was 10lb 2oz. BF both but only for 3/4 months.

Good God flopsy 10lb 11oz . DD was nearly 9lb and that was considered large in my family. Respect.

issy, like flopsy says, that sounds tough.

Boring evening working here. Not made better by fact I can't get that new Tom vid to work on my phone. Too tired to boot laptop again so fuck it til tomorrow.

But meant to say Apricot I'm so grateful for the Cyrano. I know Cinn said sommat about the sound booth but y'know I don't actually know where that is. Anyway, it works and I'm really chuffed to have it for evah.
Thank you xx

FECKINELL WHERE DO WE KEEP THE TIN FOIL HATS??

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Shit on the shittiest of shitty sticks

Oops....forgot to RTFOP. Soz Sparkytitis

Here's some pretty

turned on laptop to see Elk's video. Love the discussion of tea houses.
Shall we start planning a Venice trip?

Morning wenches. It's Friiiiiiiiiiiiiidaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy.

I'd love to go to dinner with TB. Just dinner mind.

More than dinner with this one though

MMMMMMMMMOOOOOOORRRRRNNNNIIIIIIINNNNGGGG FFFFFFFFFUUUUCCCCCKKKKEEEEERRRRSSSSSSZZZZZ

Don't know what you're on about elky as I don't read/speak whatever language that is. Soz wench.

It is grey here today, yyyyaaaaayyyy.

I find it too easy to get upduffed, am shit at pregnancy (HG and with last one crippling PGP/SPD) birth is easy (well not easy but you know what I mean - I'd have survived) and had I had support I'd have bf'ed all of them but really only managed it properly with the last one who bf'ed until he was 3.

There is no best way to do it, they all have their risks and issues. The only thing we should be concerned about is that the mother and baby are safe and well. And we should just be grateful that we live in a time and place where there are safe alternatives to vadge births AND bf.
THERE ARE NO FAILURES HERE 'K?

I can't watch the video. What does he say that requires tin foil hats???

Awww TB with a hot water bottle, and bonus Batch

Morning all. I am shit at conceiving hence only one DS thanks to MiraclesOfModernScience. It was, fortunately, a relatively easy pregancy apart from two bleeds, and he was quite keen to get out (went into labour the night of my last day at work (no relaxing/lying about/finishing packing the hospital bag for me) and he was out after about 1.5 hours in the hospital), and then he clamped on like a good-un. But no chance of any siblings, ModernScience or not. 'Complex' sums it up nicely Badders

Looks lovely and sunny today, so will be doing a bit of work, and then doing all the non-work stuff that I didn't do yesterday (chickens need cleaning out - still no Musketeers to report at the chicken coop I'm afraid; bees need to be checked, plants need to be shuffled, etc etc.)

laters

Thing is whatever you do re childbirth, feeding, general parenting, there'll always be someone telling you you're doing it wrong. Baby in nursery because you're working? That poor abandoned child. SAHM? Poor role model as a mother. It's all bollocks though. Is child loved? Is child happy? Is child safe? Yes? Fuck off then.

And some full length Aramis

Morning.
letus is right. There'll always be something you're not doing right.
I was good at conceiving, carrying and giving birth. Despite most people still refusing to believe it, I'm very tiny of frame. Both boys around the 8lb mark, pushed out in a few hours with only gas and air. And I bfed them both. It's a few months on when they were both demanding toddlers that I struggled with and ended up with PND.

Morning all.

I don't think Tom looks his best in that video. He looks tired.

I had no trouble conceiving, and like Helen I had no time to think about baby preparation. I went into labour the day after I finished work, although it took 2 days before DS finally arrived. He flatly refused to bf, he would scream and push me away which wasn't a happy introduction to motherhood. The nurses in the hospital argued over my bed as to whether he should be given a bottle or not. I tried for 10 days, but gave up in the end as he was used to the bottle by then. DD was a doddle, latched on straight away and I fed her for 9 months. They're all different and it's no reflection on the mother.

Have loads to do today so must get on.