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[Crunchie]

See my earlier post about me going out now and now you are all here! I am sad... I was bored, no one was talking and now you are all here and I have to go in 10 mins!

we will all be here later ......lol my GP told me this morning that to be careful on the antibotics I have been given as it will stop the pill working heres hoping

 

[kit_cat]

Gawd...anyone else struggling to get into the thread this morning? It keeps chucking me off I'm working from home today...can you tell

Mum might have her op today if chest infection is not to severe...waiting for news

Hi kit_kat,

Sending your mum well wishes from across the pond!

Well thank you very much newbie, so kind of you Turns out her chest infection is too bad, so no op till infection cleared I think she's going to spend Christmas in hospital

 

[kit_cat]

See my earlier post about me going out now and now you are all here! I am sad... I was bored, no one was talking and now you are all here and I have to go in 10 mins!

we will all be here later ......lol my GP told me this morning that to be careful on the antibotics I have been given as it will stop the pill working heres hoping

Oh the irony Crunchie!

 

[newbie_ttc]

addie!

Ladies I am cracking up today on the 2ww I am regretting a day off! I hate work but at least when I am there I think less about the 2ww and any symptoms. I have one wonky boob they were both wonky this morning but now just the 1. I really think I am a symptom sceptic as I said I think progesterone causes symptoms and it also brings on af does it not? Sooooo.... It's killing me though I know that symptoms don't mean a thing without a but that still doesn't stop me from over analysing every twinge and pull and everything! it's driving me batty.

I will have to wait until I which is so unfair... I'm already considering bringing it forward to the 23rd 11dpo, does everyone think this is a good day for a reliable hpt? hmmm?

absolutely

 

[Crunchie]

Gawd...anyone else struggling to get into the thread this morning? It keeps chucking me off I'm working from home today...can you tell

Mum might have her op today if chest infection is not to severe...waiting for news

Hi kit_kat,

Sending your mum well wishes from across the pond!

Well thank you very much newbie, so kind of you Turns out her chest infection is too bad, so no op till infection cleared I think she's going to spend Christmas in hospital

poor kit kats mummy ! big

 

[firstbaby25]

yes Kit I am sorry to hear that. Christmas in hospital is pants but the more reason to make next Christmas extra special... She will have 2 grandchildren by then no??

My friend is late I will swing for her when she gets here and she is like this, i expected that she wouldn't be here until 2.10 when she said 2 but what can I do?

 

[newbie_ttc]

Gawd...anyone else struggling to get into the thread this morning? It keeps chucking me off I'm working from home today...can you tell

Mum might have her op today if chest infection is not to severe...waiting for news

Hi kit_kat,

Sending your mum well wishes from across the pond!

Well thank you very much newbie, so kind of you Turns out her chest infection is too bad, so no op till infection cleared I think she's going to spend Christmas in hospital

Aw kit I am sorry to hear that dear

 

[newbie_ttc]

Hey u turtles I've finally caught up! Sorry about AF moomin. I bet you'll get it next cycle. It always happens like that, u try and try, then nothing, and when u decide not to try that's when it happens

Jaynie, so jealous of your off day in the middle of the week, enjoy it! And crunchie I hope u feel better, that temp sounds nasty!

Day 2 for my TWW, once again not feeling too optimistic, as I think we should have gotten more BD'ing in. Only got in two sessions, 2dbo and O day. We'll see what happens tho. Hopefully I am plesantly surprised.

I've got a mtg to go to in a few and it's going to be a long one. Pray I don't fall asleep in there!!

Hope everyone is having a fantastic day!!

P.S. Where's emandi??

 

[LittleSpy]

:wave: Hi everyone! (I know this is getting lame. In a couple weeks I have 1.5 weeks off work so maybe I'll be able to keep up with you ladies then. )

Congrats Addie!

to all!

 

[Mollykins]

goodnight Molly!!! Crossing like ships in the night

Very nice! "Passing like ships in the night." Always loved that one. Ahhh books.

 

[Mollykins]

Gawd...anyone else struggling to get into the thread this morning? It keeps chucking me off I'm working from home today...can you tell

Mum might have her op today if chest infection is not to severe...waiting for news

Kit I am not having this mystery problem! What actually happens? I have never had problems on bnb...

Kit, I have had that problem before. I just waited until the page loaded and pressed the "stop loading" button in my tool bar or, if I missed it and it chucked me off, I would press the back button. FX for you mum sweets!

 

[Mollykins]

Gawd...anyone else struggling to get into the thread this morning? It keeps chucking me off I'm working from home today...can you tell

Mum might have her op today if chest infection is not to severe...waiting for news

Kit I am not having this mystery problem! What actually happens? I have never had problems on bnb...

When I first joined it sometimes told me to respect a ten minute "time out"

They knew all about YOU Holly! Time out! I could just imagine your face at the news. Cursing the computer the whole 10 minutes in Holly-isms.

 

[Mollykins]

No but i suppose we're all the same Kit! We will all be anxious and the like I think i'm griping about the fact I have to wait and that is out of my control even a blood test would be unreliable as we have learned from addie (not that I am considering it...)

I just want to know if I am up the duff! Where does that saying even come from?

Up the duff...

Meaning

Euphemism for pregnant. Used most commonly, although not exclusively, to describe unplanned pregnancy.
Origin

The phrase doesn't appear in print until 1941, in Sydney John Baker's Dictionary of Australian Slang:

"Duff, up the (of a woman), pregnant."

Duff isn't a common word and seems an odd choice for a colloquial phrase. It took a rather roundabout route...

As the phrase means pregnant it shouldn't come as a major surprise that for the origin we need look no further than the penis. As with many English phrases that refer to sexual activity we dive straight into a world of euphemism and there are several obscuring layers here between penis and pregnancy.

One of the numerous slang terms for the sexual organs, or more commonly specifically the penis, is pudding. This has a long history, going back to at least the 18th century, as here from Thomas D'Urfey's, Wit and mirth: or pills to purge melancholy, being a collection of ballads and songs, 1719:

"I made a request to prepare again, That I might continue in Love with the strain Of his Pudding".

A slang term for male masturbation, which leaves little to the imagination - 'pull one's pudding', has been known since at least the 19th century.

There is a related phrase for pregnancy - 'in the pudding club', and it turns out that this and 'up the duff' are essentially the same phrase. By 1890, Barrère & Leland, in their Dictionary of Slang, defined the term pudding club:

"A woman in the family way is said to be in the pudding club."

Note that in those Victorian times the definition of a euphemistic term for pregnancy relied on another euphemism.

Dough is another word for pudding and duff is an alternative form and pronunciation of dough. That was in use by 1840, as here from R. H. Dana in Before the Mast:

"To enhance the value of the Sabbath to the crew, they are allowed on that day a pudding, or, as it is called, a ‘duff’."

So, we travel this route - (up the) duff -> dough -> pudding -> penis -> pregnant.

The more recent 'bun in the oven', another slang phrase for pregnant, may originate this way too.

 

[new mummy2010]

Huge congrats ADDIE on your BFP!!!!

Gosh girls i aint been on since pg 474 your now on 530 lol...............phhh what alot of reading!!!

 

[Mollykins]

Holly- Isn't it possible that you are Oing early? I do recall that you told me some time back that your O'd on CD 12 with Holly... so, maybe???

Jaynie!! You are NOT to be persuaded to join the enemy forum ....How could you betray your turtles so?

LittleSpy- Long time sweets! :wave: How are you and that little munchkin??

 

[Mollykins]

Good morning/afternoon ladies!

I must finish and send off these blasted Christmas cards today! I am awful about the post. I'm also going to try and work on one of the blankets today... yesterday I started one and Alice kept pouncing on it at all the wrong times. Playful little kitten.

How are you all?

 

[Mollykins]

Runny eggs =

 

[TrinityMom]

Lady Turtles

I have spent the last 30 min catching up on posts rather than strangling my middle...thought I might regret it later...maybe. He put a bottleof bleach into the full washing machine

Soooo, I made notes (how's that for a-type ocd!) so that I could remember what to comment on

First things first:
CONGRATULATIONS ADDIE!!!! SO happy for you!

MOLLY That bedroom is BEAUTIFUL! But we'd never have a baby OH would have to work VERY hard to distract me!!!

GINGE Son't count on being out until shows...and you have AMAZING fortitude!

MOOMIN Sorry AF showed

JAYNIE A rival forum???? Seriously???? But there'd be no turtles there! What would be the point???? And I hear you on the same person different sex thing. I have only ever slept with OH that probably sounds weird but we were 17 when we met

HOLLY I think you may have wee'd with too much emotion Weeing with emotion is one of my best turtle-isms. I also have "hate mail" next to your name in my notes but I have NO idea why???? Sieve brain

SARACHKA you'd better stay out of my house otherwise you'd have to pee all the time with all the books around! I even have books in the bathroom so you wouldn't be bored

ELISHEVA Welcome

KITKATLots of love and light for mum

CRUNCHIE And healing energy for you dear Crunchie...being sick sucks

 

[HollyMonkey]

Looking forward to Christmas pudding girls?

I am most deffo not O ing, you see the wee stick when I took it out the machine? All the dye amassed on one side. And of course being me I then did another clearblue to examine myself... and 2 ics I leave nothing to chance. All negative (and I will BD tonight just to make sure anyway) And when I O I get good and proper EWCM and mittelwhotsit and positive opks, so it ain't for tomorrow. But I think it could be lurking around day 15 rather than the usual 17...I'm on my guard

Hollinka doesn't want me on BnB, I will be back anon...

 

[TrinityMom]

I spent a lovely day paying debts and then watching SPUD with my mom. It's based on a book that I love that's written by my BIL's friend
https://www.amazon.com/Spud-John-van-Ruit/dp/B001PO68PG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292343782&sr=1-1
Very funny