The doctor referring us for fertility testing. :-D Hopefully now, we're on the road to finding out why it hasn't happened for us the last 12 cycles we've been (really!) trying.
Really feel like a load has been lifted, someone is helping and we might actually get the one thing we've wanted for so long.
*Her*
Walking into our first munch (Birmingham - 2005) shaking with nerves and nearly turning around and walking out before we were literally bowled over by a site member, who took us under her wing who very quickly became a RL best friend.
Had she not done that, I think it's safe to say we probably would have turned around and never looked back. Here we are 5 years later tho!
*Her*
Like many others have said, we don't use this place to "escape" vanilla life, more to make it more exciting.
Having said that tho, most of our vanilla life overlaps with our life on here as so many people have become "real" friends.
*Her*
Those bloody politicians are spending far too much time in the limelight so...
John Prescott.
And Maggie Thatcher.
Ewwwwwww :shudder:
*Him*
Totally hijacking the thread - sorry Kaznkev - I've just attempted to wax my upper lip ready for tomorrow night. I've done it before, no problems but today the wax just wouldn't come away (new "improved" wax strips!). I had to go over it several times and it still hasn't taken it all off. I now have a patchy upper lip and what I think will turn into a scab tomorrow. :doh:
HELP! What can I do?
*Her*
We take meter readings every month after a nasty surprise last January. Fair enough, our house is big and we had 10 people in the house over the Christmas period that year. My dad thought it was OK to spend all day in the conservatory with it's plastic roof (!) with the electric fire on all day (even though theres a real fire in the living room)
The combined gas & electric bill for just that 1/4? £840!!! We'd only been paying £80 per month so the outstanding was £600. To say I nearly fell over was a bit of an understatement.
We took several measures including replacing all the lights in the living room (all 8 of them!) with energy saving bulbs, but that didn't seem to be doing much so we bought 3 lamps for the living room. Cosy and a hell of a lot cheaper.
We also set the heating to be no more than 18 degrees at any time. That took some getting used to as we were used to 20/21 degrees but obviously couldn't afford that. We also covered cardboard with foil and put it behind the rads that were on outside walls to reflect the heat back into the house rather than loose it to outside.
I took to batch cooking more. If the oven went on, I put more than one meal in there, divided it up and froze what we didn't use. A quick blast in the microwave and bingo. A ready meal and I don't have to cook every night.
We've got our usage down now to £88 a month, which is still pretty high but compared to the £280 a month that quarter was, it's a hell of a lot better and we hopeully won't owe anything over the winter months.
Lesson learned the hard way!
It's a farce tho when you have to freeze in your own home because you can't afford to heat it!
*Her*
I'm with Kaznkev on this. Absolutely love, love, love it.
Never thought we'd manage it in the beginning but perserverance was the key.
I think I made the biggest noise/mess ever the other night when *Him* had a fist inside me then managed a cock too :shock: It was a good job I didn't need to get up afterwards as I swear I wouldn't have been capable of walking with the amount of shaking I was doing.
The benefits of living in a detached house.....
*Her*
Ginger Beer
(36 pints) Boiling Water
(2½lb) Sugar
40g (1½oz) Bruised Ginger
25g (1oz) Cream of Tartar
2 Lemons, rind and juice
2 large tbsp Brewers Yeast
Peel the lemons, squeeze the juice, strain it and put the peel and juice into a large earthen pan, with the bruised ginger, cream of tartar and sugar.
Pour over (3 gallons) of boiling water.
Let it stand until just warm.
Add the yeast, which should be thick and perfectly fresh.
Stir the contents of the pan well and keep in a warm place over night, covering the pan over with a cloth.
The next day skim off the yeast and pour the liquor carefully into another vessel, leaving the sediment.
Bottle immediately and secure the corks.
In 3 days the ginger beer will be fit for use.
For some tastes, the above proportion of sugar may be found rather too large, when it may be diminished, but the beer will not keep so long.
*Her*
) anything over 5ml. 5ml is one teaspoon so anything over one teaspoon I guess.
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