Hi All,

Myself and my Partner have been TC #2 and I ovulated on the 25th of this month, I'm due my next cycle on the 8th of June.
We had sex every other day, and today I'm feeling bloated and I'm very pale, Yesterday morning my boobs were a bit sore to touch on the nipple but not any more since then, and every now and then I'm getting a slight pain (not very sore at all) in my left side.

All these probably have nothing to do with pregnancy but I thought I'd ask

Could I be pregnant or at least is my body going through implantation?

I've been reading up on websites and it says the earliest I can take a test is the 4th of June (4 days time) should i take one or should I wait until I miss my period on the 8th?
Today, I feel slightly sick, I haven't been hungry at all since yesterday afternoon but yet I feel full, I'm also very tired, and also i'm still very pale and using the loo about 5 times an hour.

Surely this must mean something?
I can't remember from my previous pregnancy because I wasn't watching out for changes in my body.
Also, when I lay on my abdomen it seems like i'm squashing something even though my stomach is quite flat?
The 2 first answers:

I do not have a sti or anything related, I've been with my partner the past 4 years, and neither him nor I have been with anyone else in our lives let alone during our relationship.

To Lost!:

Thanks for your answer, I will wait until my period is missed then I will no for sure, and as you said just be patient but its just too exciting! We haven't been trying that long but I really feel "this is the month" I feel pregnant but then again I don't no what being pregnant feels like lol I can't remember this early on from my pregnancy with my daughter.

I know how it all works and I know it only takes one sperm to meet one egg and the miracle of life is performed.

However, some people just look at a blob of semen and they end up pregnant, some couples try all month every month and it takes a long time.

I watched a thing on the BBC called "The Great Sperm Race" which scaled everything up to human size to help you comprehend just what goes on and I was shocked to know that only about 10 - 20 or so sperm get to the fallopian tube (assuming they go down the right one!) the majority of the others get killed off by the womb's defenses.

And yet women can still get pregnant even by using the withdrawal method!
Does the whole natural family planning (having sex during infertile parts of the cycle) contraception thing even work!? Everything makes you feel like it wouldn't!

whom I have tried to support in making the decision to leave? I find myself becoming somehow emotionally involved in a pity/frustration scenario, I simply dont have the emotional energy anymore to watch the cycle over and over again. How can I detach myself?
Its not physically abusive, emotional abuse is VERY difficult to prove.

and despite assumptions, my friend is a man
He has been in therapy for some time, he seems to simply lack the will to make the final decision

i was watching a documentary yesterday about pro Nazi groups in America and i was shocked to see they took their kids to their rallies.kids has young as 2 all dressed in nazi outfits.
wouldn't this kids be better without this people around them? they wont stand a chance of being normal balanced children in that environment.and worse it means that the cycle of hate and racism will carry on to new generations.
Also i found out most of this groups recruit members due to their anti immigrant views.And it made me think if us in Britain will ever get so racist and xenophobes has them with our current anti emigrant views (i do not mean myself)
i know legally children cannot be taken away from this people ,but wouldnt they be so better off?
gobber i reported you fro racist comments and i hope other members in yahoo will do the same
i do not teach my children to hate people because of their colour,itheach him the opposite that people with those believes are bad and that everyone black, white ,yellow are the same
i personally dont know any religion thai incites hate violence and racist,so it is a silly comparison
i do condemn all racism, and hate,so yesi think the minority of muslins that teach their children hate should have thosse kids removed too
well my son plays with children who are muslim, they are also my neigbours, i never had a problem with them and they never had a problem with me, at christmas we even give them gifts and they accept and this year i even explained to the 2 kids what christmas meant, the parents were fine with it, they are both nice educated people and i have never saw any violence or hated from them. my family is catolic, i'm not, i dont believe in religion myself (altough yes i celebrate christmas), all my friends have different religions(cristina, budists, jews,etc) and they are still my friends and dont do out in racist rallies .

So we are trying for our 2nd child (1st month of ttc). I am on day 12 of my cycle (usually a 28 day one). Earlier today I checked my cm and it was very wet and did have occasional sort of jelly like blobs (a bit stretchy) and have had on/off dull ache in ovary area all day. We bd'd on Sat night and again tonight.

Thing is after we had sex I lay for an hour watching tv so the sperm could stay in and a little after an hour when I got up I had a lot of stuff come out that looked just like raw egg whites! Is this likely to be the sperm coming out or something else? When I check myself now (nearly 3 hours after sex) I have stretchy discharge. We plan to bd again tomorrow or Wed but do you think I have a chance from tonight and also what came out of me!??

Thank you in advance for answers and baby dust to all!!!
ps I am very frisky too is this a sign Im ovulating!?
LOL at Cottonlily...its so true isnt it...no holding back! lol x

I have recovered form bulimia age 13 and am now recovering from anorexia aged 14 nearly 15. I didn't get over my bulimia by my own choice i was hospitalized, and went through weeks and weeks of therapy, when i had over come my bulimia a few months later i started to suffer from anorexia, unfortunately i think that eating disorders are a vicious cycle. The reason why i did stop my bulimia was one: i didn't want to die and two: i really really didn't want to go back to hospital because i hated it. I have recently been let out of hospital after being in there for a while ( i had feeding tubes and was constantly watched). I am scared that i will not be able to recover, or if i do i will suffer again from anorexia or bulimia in the future.
Have you recovered/ are you recovering/ are you suffering from anorexia or bulimia at the moment.? I feel really alone and scared. Any help or advice? I just really dont want to go back to hospital. Thank you xxx
Any help at all is greatly appreciated xxx

I'll be in Rotterdam for a work meeting on the Thursday before Easter. I don't have to be back home (London) until Monday night. So I have a nice long weekend to see some bits of Holland!

Where shall I go and what shall I do? Are there any special events on over that weekend? Any big football matches?

I've been to Rotterdam before, and Amsterdam (where I watched Ajax play Feyernoord), and I've also visited Leiden, Delft, The Hague and Scheveningen. Happy to go to any of those places again, but would like to do something fun while I'm there - I don't need to go just to see them as I've already been once!

I don't have to fly home from Rotterdam, it could be from somewhere else. Is it possible to hire a bike for a one-way journey between two towns, or do I need to return it to the same place where I hired it? Is the weather likely to be mild enough for a long cycle ride or should I save that for another time when it's warmer? If that would be a good idea, where should I go from and to?

Any ideas much appreciated. Thanks for reading!

Do You Think The Current Sex-Ed in Schools Is Failing Our Kids?

When i was in year 5 we watched a video about how the penis goes into the vagina, sperm fertilises the egg etc.
And that was it until year 9
And that lesson was just telling us all the different ways to stop girls getting pregnant.
And a final "Science lesson" in year 11 about all the different hormones that cause the menstrual cycle

There was no talk about that sex should be in relationships

The only mention of condoms was that they were to stop girls getting pregnant
- NO talk of diseases etc.etc

especially dangerous being gay as when i was that age i sort of thought "whats the point of condoms - im not going to get pregnant"

There was no talk what-so-ever about gay or bi-sexual relationships

And it was very late to be talking about contraception as late as year 9 as many had lost their virginity by then

They seem to have failed on all counts

Dont you agree its time for a complete overhaul of the way sex-ed is taught?

I need a some help me to name this little girl for my short story. I want the perfect name for her! What names come to mind when you think of a girl with the following describing? She is around nine years old.

APPEARANCE:
dark brown, shoulder-length, messy hair
bright blue eyes
short
skinny
long legs
dresses uniquely (funky, colourful, sometimes unusual clothes)

INTERESTS/HOBBIES:
likes reading all kinds of books
likes experimenting in the kitchen, baking and cooking
likes arts and crafts and inventing things
enjoys making up and writing stories
likes watching old movies and playing video games
despises doing her homework
attends Girlguiding (girls social club in UK) and music class
likes riding her bicycle to sweet shop

PERSONALITY:
generally quiet and shy (few friends)
great sense of humour
comical and bubbly
tendency to be serious
very intelligent
"in her own world" type
does not adhere to any crowd

LIFESTYLE:
has single, young mother ("cool")
live in small but very cosy home
mother and daughter do lots together, including arts, music, film-watching, attend events (they have their own little life)
girl cycles to school and child-minder picks her up due to mother's full time job
her father is French and occaionsly she travels alone to visit him (not necessarily a French name but possibily)

Thank you very much for taking time to help me. Any suggestions are much appreciated. A couple of names I have thought of are Carina, Martha and Orla.

I've been having a "discussion" with someone about time travel. They don't understand my theory. Originally the post was about River Song and how River didn't know Rory in Series 5, even though they'll both appear in series 6 and most probably meet, which is set before River meets the Doctor at the end of the Big Bang. My theory was that, unless Rory was absent from series 6 when River appears, River had the series 6 adventures before she returned to the wedding, which would explain why can know of Rory in series 6. I want to know who understands the theory as one IP claims that it is impossible.

The events follow as such:
1. The Doctor resets the universe making himself non existent in the future of that time-line.
2. Rory and Amy are returned to their wedding day, River to wherever she would be in the future.
3. Amy remembers the Doctor and brings him and the TARDIS back. This creates a new future (a split time-line) where the Doctor exists.
4. The Doctor, Amy and Rory then travel to the future where the Doctor exists and pick up River.
5. The four live through the events of series six, which is how River wouldn't know Rory in the Pandorica Opens, but would have met him by the events of series 6.
6. From the future, they travel back to the wedding and drop River off with her diary.
7. The diary's writing would disappear as at that point in the time-line, Amy had not remembered the Doctor, so the time-line had a future in which the Doctor did not exist. This is the same as in the game City of the Daleks where Amy was beginning to disappear since she came from a future that did not exist at that point in the time line, or like Marty McFly in Back to the Future.
8. Amy remembers which brings us back to point three, and the paradoxical cycle begins again.

Have a look at this link for and explanation of how the split time-line basically works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz5X7B1tz0Y

Here's a break down of the individual time-lines:

Amy and Rory's timeline:
1. Return to wedding
2. Amy remembers
3. Pick up River and they live through series 6
4. Drop River off at the wedding and leave causing Amy to remember and starting the cycle at 2 again.

River's timeline:
1. River is returned to the far future
2. Just as happens to Jennifer in Back to the Future, the time-line changes around River when Amy remembers
3. The Doctor, Amy and Rory pick up River and live through series 6
4. River is dropped off at the wedding. Her book looses it's writing, as the future it came from does not exist because the course the timeline is on will not lead to that future (it comes from the split timeline which doesn't exist)
5. River gives Amy the diary to remember, causing the future to change around her past self, bringing us back to point 2.
6. River gets her diary back from the newly brought back Doctor and warns him of the series 6 events.

The Doctor's timeline:
1. The Doctor causes himself not to exist
2. Amy remembers him and brings him back
3. River warns him of the series 6 events
4. He, Amy and Rory pick up River from the future and they live through series 6.
5. Knowing River caused his re-existence as he knew she had given Amy her diary, he drops her off so she can give Amy the diary and cause him to re-exist, bringing us back to point number 2.

Now, I'd like the opinions of others about this theory, but only serious ones. Any which are not serious will be reported.

Hey all, started writing a fantasy character, and I’ve fell in love with one of my characters. I want to know what you think of him.
His name is Alexander Dyder, and he is a Fermari, the last in fact, due to him and his ‘brother’ sparking a civil war when their race lived on the world. Now, after god knows how many millennia later, he still lives (his kind being immortal) and he has to beat his ‘brother’ and stop the sort of chaos that came about during this civil war (more will be explained in the book/s).
He’s sort of a tragic figure, is Alexander. Initially grumpy, alcoholic, and having ltitle patience left, he’s the best warrior. A good mage, yes, but his heart lies in battle, with a sword. But, he’s had enough of life. Over the years, he’s loved many people, fathered children, and has had to kill hundreds of people, or watch those he loved die due to his failures. Now, in the current Cycle of the world, he’s in love once again, and instead of showing it, he’s trying to protect himself from getting to close and having to watch her die. But, as the tale goes on, he starts to get closer to his companions and this woman, slowly losing his icy and cold and slightly nihilistic exterior to show the good man inside of him. He still has tokill, however, it being his mission: he can only end his ‘curses’, as he calls them, once he has rid this fantasy world of the two great evils: his brother, and the other being.
So, he hates himself for what he’s done, damning his race, killing his own lovers and children on occasion to keep on going, to do what he is meant to do: rather than die for our sins, he has to live and suffer for as long as these great evils live, to save the whole of Mankind.
But, really, he’s doing it so he can enjoy at least one life time with this woman he loves, without the efar of her dying or the great evils striking against him once more.
Does Alexander sound interesting? Cliched? Or just too boring?

Cheers All.
BTW if anyone oes like this, I'll send them 3 sample chapters of the book, should they so wish. I'm that nice

just send the email with asking to jakekeidel.1@hotmail.co.uk

I was just watching Americas next top model, Cycle..10, I think. And a girl named lauren had a makeover which was described as blonde hair with red highlight. they werent bright red highlights, it all seemed blended. I want to get this look, cant find a good picture of her though. Any pictures anyone can send to help me tell a hairdresser would be helpful thanks

Okay, well recently I've been concerned about my weight.
I know it sounds stupid, Just keep reading =D

I know if im honest I've put on weight this year, but it doesnt seem to be coming off, I have a sister who weighs alot, but she does so many workouts and eats healthy, which I find really strange..
My mum is quite skinny, and so am I, But I dont want to go down the same road as my sister.
I know that it is probs puberty for my sister and its just unlucky for her, but she confessed to me that when she started her teens she used to eat unhealthly.
If I watch my weight now, try eat healthy, and exersice more then will I stay the way I am now when Im 18 ?
I feel sorry for my sister because she eats better than I do and exersices frequently and her weight will not disappear.
This may sound really pathetic to you, but if I eat really well now, and go running/cycling more often will I stay the shape I am now before Its too late to loose it ?
Hope that make ANY sense X

Here's the short paragraph of the policy: http://member.sja.org.uk/cycling/policy/section15.asp

And here's a video of a St John Ambulance cyclist using blue lights..: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-LxsOCOwfc

Any ideas?
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Not just St John, I've also seen police officers doing the same thing in real life... i.e., using blue lights on police bicycles..

1. I'm hot tonight - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewg9Ccm0o6Q

2. Push it to the limit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhsTmiK7Q2M

3. She's Got Me Dancing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbS57aiYFJ8&feature=related

PS: i'm after songs like these to play on me iPod when cycling.. Any recommendations?

Who keeps coming on the scene uninvited unexpected etc.
But isnt easy to shut the door on or pretend to be out.

Kind of magnetic.
Enough to make plans or arrangemnets go offside.
Which is not always bad but you know
Now and again yeah ?

Wtf how do you bust this crazy cycle ?

Who has seen play Misty for Me (old movie Clint Eastwood )

Who else has had this kind of scenario ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTbFNsBy73I

I am watching the jeremy kyle show (yep I know), and there is a woman on it a year younger than me that is pregnant with her 7th child. She does not have custody of at least two of the children (they are brought up by their father, thank god), and she is sitting smiling and laughing about the fact that she is an unfit mother.

Does this make anyone else sick? What can be done to stop these cycles and protect the unfortunate offspring from vile people like this?
To the thumbs down fairy - Why don't you just answer the question? Or is it that you dont have anything clever to say?

hey all, my period was due yesterday and it still hasnt arrived which of course is a good thing!! my cycles are usually 28 days but last month it was 30 days so i have gone on the 30 days cycle and im now currently on CD 32, i can usually set my watch by them!! I dont have pre AF cramping but I do have several other symptoms....
I just dont want to test incase it turns out negative, because at the moment i can live in hope.lol. is any other ttc'ers out there like this, or is it just me!!!
I no the majority of people in early pregnany have cramping like menstrual cramping but no period arrives but i dont even have this.....has anyone been pregnant without the cramping??
Thank you...im sooo nervous....and all fingers and toes are crossed AF stays away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my partner thinks, i am bipolar, so do I infact. I experience daily highs and lows that are sometimes together. In fact watching stacy in eastenders the other night, really hit home, when my partner said that it was like me but I was not as extreme. I am always scared that people are plotting to kill me aswell. I dont want to go to the docs as we have researched this beetween us and it strongly appears that I do have it, scoring highly in all online screening tests, everyone also says that i am very paranoid, although I have good reasoning for most. I dont want to go to the doctors as I am scared that the UK does not know enough about bipolar, and am scared of being tagged mental by people. I am also scared of how the meds will make me feel. The highs usually occur after very little sleep as I struggle to sleep aswell. the fact that I am writing this and aware of it must be a plus. what do you recommend I do, I have a partner who loves me but says i am defo bipolar, and we also have a baby. Boy. I am not suicidal ever, and I would never do anything to harm either of them. my partner describes me as the nicest person in the world when on a high and fast talking, but very negative when on a low. these are rapid cycles that occur daily to every to days.

Could I beat this without going to the doctors and without medication?

Please help anyone, whats my next step, I have even come across suggestions that bipolar is not real???
no dont think everyone hates me, just people who have hurt me or give me sly comments, think people plot to kill me who dont even know each other, silly i know. very lazy when depressed mode, and erratic when in high mode

I'm really confused about 2 years ago me and this guy who's in my school but hes a year older than me so were in a different class and have different timetables. We used to speak only through text for about 7 weeks twice a week, sometimes more for about 2-3 hours. I used to text first but he would always reply and used to apologise if he didn't . He'd tell me when he credit was gone . He acted funny in the text sometimes too. Always used wink or smiley face in his texts . He ended most with goodnight once he sad and sweet dreams.and sometimes I did. We have alot in common and can talk about anything. He replies with long answers.Then during in the summer he stopped texting back only tried twice. At christmas we started talking again in text a small bit. Then I spoke to him first time in school this year he seemed happy and shocked when I spoke to him. He replied to me from his mates phone once when I texted him and he didn't have credit. I spoke to him a bit more in school. They were quite short though as we didn't have enough time only walking close down the hallway on the way to our lockers, He used to always smile when we spoke make eye contact and look right into my eyes. He'd ask about myself . One of the times I saw him I said Hi to him and he said hey back then I turned and carried on walking but I realised he was going the same way so turned back to walk with him and he looked at me smiling and we carried on talking.

In the gym a couple of times he was watching me then moved over to this area to be in my view so he could see me . A different time in the gym I was in the gym before him and he saw me, I was on this machine he walked past this was downstairs then turned and looked back and saw me and went on a machine sort of opposite me. He doesn't usually stay downstairs.An in the park I saw him he was with his friend he was watching me I walked past them then turned back to see him getting ready to leave .then I left and he left with his friend right after and cycled past me. But he doesn't text back anymore??? The last time I texted him it was last month and he didn't reply and the last 2 times
Should I text him its been weeks and hes left school now I will never see him again I do see him in the gym though but never speak to each other.??Does he like me or why does he act like this?

Hi, Im at the age where Im starting to put a little weight on around the middle. I was watching a medical doc which stated it was impossible to shed this weight and return to firm abs once you have gained it. It’s literally a little hump, not a huge pot belly or anything. I have been cycling like crazy because I don’t want the over 35 body syndrome. Please tell me I can get my old figure back with hard work. I refuse to believe I cant return to how I was

I watched a programme on TV a while ago which explained that lightning although it appears to come downwards, It actually travels from the ground upwards.
The programme also explained the safest place to be in a thunderstorm, is in your car. This is because of something called 'Faradays Cage'.
It was difficull to understand why, but I was wondering if it had something to do with the rubber tyres. It kinda makes sense as if lightning does travel upwards then it shouldnt be able to strike.
Iwas wondering if this is right and if it is safe to cycle in a thunderstorm since you are not physically connected to the ground.

I will watch a program and it will stop, some error message will appear for about a minute, it will start again for about 12 seconds then an error message will appear again. If that isn't happening then the sound and the picture will go out of sync. And this cycle has been happening for about two weeks.

I have tried pausing, then playing. I have tried going to the menu and then quickly pressing backup, but nothing works.

Oh and on recordings it is the most annoying. Please help me!

Im in France on holidays (Im from Scotland) and I cant watch the tv or listen to the radio, all they do is show and talk about the tour de France!! I hate cycling, this must be the worst sport ever, so boring! Each time i turn the tv on, there is the tour de france, the radio is the same, I hate it!

I am gutted to see Lance Armstrong so far behind at the moment after hoping he would come back and win the Tour again (being team captain again, etc). But falling off 3 times in one day is far from good and it looks like he won't win it this time round at all now.

He is my all-time cycling Legend and with him out of the Tour I can't really see any point continuing to watch it. It just feels like all the records have been achieved and that there is unlikely to be another Armstrong who wins so many times especially after all he's been through.

A former police officer faces jail after an internet video exposed his bid to prosecute a cycling protester for running into him as a lie. Patrick Pogan claimed activist Christopher Long steered into him and knocked him down during a demonstration in New York. But a YouTube video seen by two million people so far has exposed him as a liar.

Watch here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkiyBVytRQ&feature=player_embedded

If he isn't charged and sent to prison,...what should New Yorkers do about it?

Your thoughts,.....

this is my 3rd week going to the gym and i do 20minutes on the rowing machine, 10 mins on the stepper, 10 minutes cross traine(cant do no more than 10 mins as it kills!) and 10 mins cycling...then i do some light weights, sit ups and crunches... i need to lose 1 and a half stone, how long before i see results do u think? im not really dieting but i do watch what i eat..
is it a good idea to keep a diet/exercise diary? and also how many calories should i eat a day and how many should i burn off at the gym?
Thankyou! xxx
cross trainer**

Ok im 20 and i have been with the same guy for 4 years now we have a new house now, Im on the Nuvaring and have been for about a year now. We had intercorse the day I put my nuvaring back in, marks the last day of my period. I have a short cycle I know that much or so my girl doc tells me, something to do with my family history. about a week after we had intercorse I started feeling kinda sick when i would smell sertain thing and was very very sleepy by the middle of the day and im never sleepy by then. Not only that but my mom came up to me one day shortly after that and made the comment, "wow your boobs look really big are you prego?" I replied no but a few days after that my boyfriend and i were watching tv and a sprit commercial came on and I had to have a sprit. I wanted one so bad i was sick till i got up and got one. The he said to me, "the way you are acting would make me think your prego." I laughted it off but it really got me to thinking i might be. I took my nuvaring out 1 day before i was sapost to just to see if i would start. I got a really sharp almost hot feeling pain in my lower back right after taking out the ring and just thought it was nothing and i would start soon. It has been 3 days sents i took out my nuvaring and nothing. I always start the 3 day after I take out my ring regardles if i take it out early or not. now when i got up this morning and i wasnt on my period i went and took a preg. test, it was negative but i still dont know what to think. Some of thouse things dont show you you are pregant till like 5 days after your missed period. What do you people think? Should I wait and take another one in a few days or is the first negative right and the back pain a sign that my period is comeing?

my betta has NEVER been kept in a bowl he was born in the shop where they kept them in large tanks and i put him in a 5 gallon filtered warm tank.
the only complication with him was he wouldnt eat for two days till he settled so i researched this and found out to feed him up slowly after so not to shock his system,i did this by breaking apart flakes and monitoring how much he actually swallows.
as i couldnt obtain ammonia i had to cycle it with shrimp as the life force ive done my level checks and although not 100%perfect have never really been far off so i havnt needed to do anything to keep his water safe.
ive just done checks and it hasnt spiked so its not that.

he hasnt got any fading discolouration swelling loss of apetite weird swim patterns or abnormal markings.

he is one week old by my ownership and about two inches including tail. i watched him for 15 minutes in the shop to try and make sure i chose a good healthy fish.

hes been flaring his gills out since yesterday,i mean really going for it he looks like a bearded draggon when he does this,what i guess you could call his cheeks flush out then flaps of what i presume is gills puff out then he puts them away again.
he has been doing this at his reflection and am awaiting the chance to get some platies to keep him company which i have been told could take his mind off his mirror!
none of his fins are torn or damaged.
he has been pooping and its coming out a similar colour to the flakes he eats.
im so so worried i have done every bit of research i could to ensure im looking after him right what could be wrong with the poor fellow?
could he have gotten sick from biting me when i was adjusting his filter?
i dont really want to add chemicals..and couldnt until at least tomorrow as i dont have any fish medison.
i dont really want to poke him he is on the floor in the corner bum floating a bit gills going ten to the dozen..im literally in tears here
i think he was cold.he took a while but started to move about the same time my fan heater warmed it up enough for me to take my jumper off.hes not as active as he has been but i dont want to bother him atm and am rationing him till tomorrow as his belly looks full and i fed him last nite 3 flakes (they were on the small side)

The telly took five minutes to warm up
Nearly everyone’s Mum was in when you came home from school
No one owned a pure bred dog
When I shilling a week was enough pocket money
White dog poo on the street
When you only had to come home when the street lights came on.
Your Mum wore stockings that came in two pieces
Every male teacher wore a tie
Every female teacher had her hair tidy every day and wore high heels
You got your windscreen wiped for free at the petrol pump
Cereals had real toys hidden in the box
You thought is was a privilege to be taken for a meal by your parents to a real restaurant
A Ford Capri was your dream car
When your school threatened to keep you back a year if you didn’t do better………and they did!
No one ever asked where the car keys were, because they were in the car, in the ignition, and it was unlocked.
Lying on your back on the grass with your friends saying “that cloud looks like………”
Playing footie without adults to tell you the rules of the game
Stuff from shops came without a safely cap or hermetic seal because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger
When being sent to the headmasters office was nothing to what you would get if your parents heard that you had been sent there
And with all our progress don’t you wish that you could slip back just for a day and savour the slower pace with the children of today
Basically we were in fear of our lives, but not from drugs or gang related crimes
But our parents and grandparents were a bigger threat
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat
Summers spent at the beach, donkey rides, powder lemonade, hoop la, bike rides that went on for miles.
When snow was so thick you never saw grass for weeks
When you read The Famous Five and Secret Seven
Watching Laurel and Hardy, Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger at the pictures
Newsreels before the movies
Do you remember what a double dare was
Milk deliveries in glass bottles on the doorstep
Pogo sticks
Four digit telephone numbers
Red phone boxes where you had to press button A then button B
Metal ice cube trays
45 rpm records
Spud guns
Izal toilet paper
Twin tub washing machines
Reel to reel tape recorders
Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum
Mojos
Two bob for a gallon of petrol
Decisions were made by eeny meeny miny mo
Race issues meant who won the relay race
Being caught in school with a weapon meant a catapault
Being belted at school and your parents never had the teacher charged
There was no TV till 4pm
Spinning round, stopping then falling down was a cause to giggle
Putting playing cards into the spokes of your cycle turned any bike into a motorcycle
Taking drugs meant getting the polio injection
If you remember all of these then you have LIVED
Kamran..........i'm trying to imagine you with a personality, but i haven't got that long to sit around.
Barbie, dont know if you are uk or usa, a shilling was pre decimal money. what now is 10p
Mossey ......great wasn't it. clip round the ear from the local bobby....lol.. todays kids havent lived to have the freedom we got.
Izo....look deary im not as old as you think i am...i can just see into the past!!...my birthday is next month and I will hit 19
Zumph.....cheers...that made me laugh!
James B.....and don't forget God save the queen every night after the tv stations closed down.
Violated........i pity you. You definately need a touch of the old times. those were happy days, id rather have them than when you were a kid.....look how you've turned out??!!
Lady Isis......tell me about it...lol. if you didnt crease it then it just slid off your bum....lol.
Support worker, You should put a post on with one of your own. you are remembering things i had forgotten all about. we used to tie a pound note with our mums invisible sewing thread and when someone tried to pick it up we would whisk it away...lol
CT...do you mean the caramel bars with the nuts that were called "Nutty" bars.? no one seems to remember them except me...they were great. and I didn't think you'd be old enough to remember all that.
Scream......oh you have put a smile on my face mentioning the two fags and matches. i remember going into the local cafe and buying them for 3d

I have just returned from a two week holiday, so I am overloaded with dirty washing (family of 4). I put a load on this morning, and when I got it out, I noticed it was still a bit dirty, but I assumed it was ground in holiday dirt and put another load on. As I was pottering about in the kitchen, I noticed that there was no foam inside the machine. I usually always see foam when I have a load of washing on, but again I didn't worry too much, until I got the load out and some of it was barely wet (it was a very small load, so no reason for this as far as I can see), it was also still dirty. So I've just put a very small load on, with lots of powder and sat there and watched it, and basically there is something wrong.

When the drum stops and makes the noise (which I assume is water going in) there is a clunking noise as if something is stopping it from happening. The drum continues as normal, but this clunk keeps happening and I noticed that the clothes were barely wet at all and there was ZERO foam, despite putting extra in the drawer. The wash cycle is performing as normal, but these clunking noises keep happening. The powder and softener are being taken from the drawer as normal, so I'm guessing (a VERY wild guess) that there is a problem with the water going into the drum!?!?

Please help! We have no clean clothes, and my house looks like a bomb has hit it with all these suitcases filled with dirty clothing!
Hotpoint, front loader.

hi i'm 17 and male.

in a few days time, i'll be going on a holiday with my whole family. and we'll be going to the beach / pool a lot.

last year, i was slim so i didn't care about taking my shirt off. but, since that holiday, i have put on quite a bit of weight on, (but have gotten taller/broader shoulders too).

i now have a bit of "moobs" - not much really, but they're noticeable if i have a shirt on. and of course, a chubby stomach. i'm not obese, but i am quite chubby. in bed, when i sit up in the morning, my stomach hangs over my boxer shorts.

i'm not going to be able to lose it in time because i'm about 2 stone/14lbs overweight. i do play a lot of rugby, and cycle/walk to a lot of places so i am fit - and i aint just eating crisps and watching tv all day. lol.

but what would u do? would u just sit out from swimming? or wouldn't you care? i don't care if i'm swimming with mates, but it's with family, its different (lol). like if they say anything i cant laugh it off.

if u really want to know.. .i'm 5ft10" and 14 stone 9 lbs (205lbs). i do have a lot of muscle in my arms and legs but i am quite chubby in the belly! ...i dont drink beer though...
cheers
allie - i will but i cant in 2 days! lol

I have a dilemma in regards to what the best contraception for me to use would be.

I have tried ALOT of different variations of the pill and have had very bad side effects to them all, vomiting, etc. I tried the vaginal ring but found it very uncomfortable. I don't trust myself to use the natural way of keeping track of your cycle, etc. I have researched the contraception injection, but have heard a lot of bad reviews in regards to mood swings, side effects, etc. I tried the implant a couple of years ago, but from what I can remember, I gained alot of weight with it and it made me feel a bit depressed, and also I didn't have much of a sex drive with it (now this could all have been due to not being that happy in my previous relationship then).

I was going to try the implant again, but has anybody ever experienced the same side effects, depression/ no sex drive and also if it causes weight gain, if you watch your weight carefully, eat healthy and exercise will that stop weight gain, or is it the case that the hormones in the implant will cause you to gain weight regardless of what you do?
Also, I am 25 years old and have never had children.

I have one of those and use them when cycling at night, and I find them very useful to indicate left and right when turning - and they're really user-friendly...

Why don't I see them on the streets often?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSFfwJxyzY
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I think sometimes it's difficutl for road users to see the signalling hand in the dark, unless the cyclist is wearing hi-viz arm bands...

I agree about the weight, but there are cyclists who don't mind that if it can make them that bit safer

weve taken your advice and were gonna try for our second baby (:
so now i need advice ..
they say that when your ovulating, your discharge changes..

my periods have always been irregular, so i cant use an ovulation chart.. so watching my discharge would be the best way for me..

so say i had a regular 28day cycle, id be ovulating today or in a few days.. what should i look for? at the minute, discharge actually looks a bit like cooled down candle wax..!! haha!!

thanks again, appreaciate it xxx