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27 Feb 14
09:29
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Other half is pregnant and texts me yesterday to say we have the date of the 3-month scan. Text exchange goes like this:
Her: "Made scan appointment for 11th March at 1.50pm. Is that ok?"
Me: "Can you try to do it for a morning please"
Her: "No chance, you get what you are given"
Me: "That's sh1t, right in the middle of 1st day of Cheltenham. Bet they could move it if you ask"
Her: "Seriously is Cheltenham more important!? I will call and ask"
Me: "Yes please call and ask"
Her: "12th March 9.10am. I am not moving it again"
Me: "That's the day we are going to Cheltenham. Also rubbish"
So last night she says she cannot believe that I was trying to rearrange the scan for another time, and is Cheltenham really that important to fit the scan around? I said yes, it is that important and should be worked around. She reckons that is an outrageous view and that anyone she told would think that was weird and an unbelievable opinion. I told her that amongst her mates with babies they might find my stance hard to understand but that if I posted it up on here almost everyone would say I was right and she should be trying to move it to not clash with any Cheltenham arrangements.
Comments please (I will be showing this to her later for evidence either way).
Her: "Made scan appointment for 11th March at 1.50pm. Is that ok?"
Me: "Can you try to do it for a morning please"
Her: "No chance, you get what you are given"
Me: "That's sh1t, right in the middle of 1st day of Cheltenham. Bet they could move it if you ask"
Her: "Seriously is Cheltenham more important!? I will call and ask"
Me: "Yes please call and ask"
Her: "12th March 9.10am. I am not moving it again"
Me: "That's the day we are going to Cheltenham. Also rubbish"
So last night she says she cannot believe that I was trying to rearrange the scan for another time, and is Cheltenham really that important to fit the scan around? I said yes, it is that important and should be worked around. She reckons that is an outrageous view and that anyone she told would think that was weird and an unbelievable opinion. I told her that amongst her mates with babies they might find my stance hard to understand but that if I posted it up on here almost everyone would say I was right and she should be trying to move it to not clash with any Cheltenham arrangements.
Comments please (I will be showing this to her later for evidence either way).
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Clown & even bigger for posting this crap.The fact you are just texting each other says it all.
It's only mummy who gets scanned so you don't need to be there at all. Leave her the cab fare and spend the next fortnight googling scan images so you can point to the right bits when she shows you babiy's first photo.
if its his first child, prob best to be there, if not send her with the mother in law
Will be the 2nd. I will be there whatever happens, but would be far happier if she told them she couldn't do Wednesday at all or Tuesday, Thursday or Friday in the afternoon.
Funnily enough, my wife text this to me last year. I'd be dreading the possibility, as I knew it'd be around Cheltenham. Luckily enough, she was joking and the scan was the next week. But the thoughts had been going through my head as to what I was going to do. I'd have suggested changing the date, but since you've already done that and it went wrong, good luck in talking her into doing it again!
Best to be there obviously but absolutely no reason at all why it can't be the week before or after Cheltenham.
I've got a similar issue. My eldest son (now 10) has a congenital issue that will almost certainly require surgery to enable him to properly use his right foot & ankle. The notification of appointment with the surgeon at Alder Hey finally came through two weeks ago, and when I phoned up they had 9.00am on Wednesday 12th March, or nothing until mid-May.
Obviously, I took the March appointment and I will be taking him. Was supposed to be going on the Tuesday & Wednesday with the lads this year so it will be on TV only for me this year.
I've got a similar issue. My eldest son (now 10) has a congenital issue that will almost certainly require surgery to enable him to properly use his right foot & ankle. The notification of appointment with the surgeon at Alder Hey finally came through two weeks ago, and when I phoned up they had 9.00am on Wednesday 12th March, or nothing until mid-May.
Obviously, I took the March appointment and I will be taking him. Was supposed to be going on the Tuesday & Wednesday with the lads this year so it will be on TV only for me this year.
scans can easily be changed, phone up yourself and change it for the week after citing some family emergency
Cant you contact Cheltenham and ask them to delay the first race until you get back :)
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Clown & even bigger for posting this crap.The fact you are just texting each other says it all.
brutal
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Clown & even bigger for posting this crap.The fact you are just texting each other says it all.
brutal
the op has my sympathy, i would not allow any appointment get in the way of my 5 days annual holiday - just tell the missus to either attend the scan alone, or book it for a time that suits everyone.
EXACTLY - THIS IS A TEST!!!
She knows exactly when Cheltenham is.
She knows exactly when Cheltenham is.
I'm told that the 3 month and 1 week scan is far more informative......
Presumably you knew when Cheltenham was when you impregnated her.
Desperately unlucky Roger!,can understand your quandary,having been in a similar situation last year. Having never missed a chelts. festival in over 40 years,it cost me a fortnight in Jamaica! but some times compromises have to be made!!!
Big group of us from all over the south meet up on gold cup day every year and have a day of it.
2012 we had our first scan on the day. When looked at time I had to be there for 2:50.
Could walk to hospital from the pub but wife did not want people to know.
Had to make a stupid excuse up as to why I was leaving. Never got back in time for race.
Would not change a thing it's your loss not being there, Cheltenham is the first week of year I book off in my holiday priorities love every min of it
But it does not come close to the daily joy maple gives.
2012 we had our first scan on the day. When looked at time I had to be there for 2:50.
Could walk to hospital from the pub but wife did not want people to know.
Had to make a stupid excuse up as to why I was leaving. Never got back in time for race.
Would not change a thing it's your loss not being there, Cheltenham is the first week of year I book off in my holiday priorities love every min of it
But it does not come close to the daily joy maple gives.
Book her in for a scan at a luxury private hospital -- make it seem like a present.
Presumably you knew when Cheltenham was when you impregnated her.
A salutary warning to all of us of the dangers of sex in the nine months before the Festival.
A salutary warning to all of us of the dangers of sex in the nine months before the Festival.
Noted. In future foreplay will consist of me checking the sporting fixtures for 3 months, 5 months and 9 months ahead to ensure inconvenience to my sports watching is minimal. Slightly formalising the session, but at least it will make it last longer.
Have you shown her this Roger. Some bloke put it on another thread. 
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It’s a pretty potent force, that’s for sure.
Like most, it gives a structure to my year both in terms of the racing and the cogitating over the form, ante-post bets, ‘who will run where’ and all the great irrelevancies associated with it. But also on a deeper, visceral level with my feeling I am able to work hard and devote myself to other, far more important, issues (family, work, friends) only so much, until I get my ‘reward’ with the spiritual renewal that is Cheltenham.
I’m prepared to admit I take Cheltenham way more seriously than I should and am probably too abrasive in my views now. Still, this is my opinion so, well, suck it up, disagree, laugh and move on.
For me though, Cheltenham is way too important to cheapen with twit marketing (‘Ladies Day’ FFS), asinine countdowns (Well done! You can count backwards from 11th March to the minute – you phooking retard!), the hype that this inherently worthy and magnificent event does not need and the increasingly repetitive and rip-off Preview Evenings cottage industry that has sprung up.
I’m in a minority of one too when I say I loathe the nationalism and flag-waving. That’s not what it’s about. Racing’s never about my ’group’ besting ‘your group’, which is why that whole Kauto vs Denman thing could go fk itself and the cancer it rode into town on too. It’s about respect for everyone – no, more than ‘respect’. It’s about defining ‘us’ the National Hunt fans as passionate, friendly, Stateless, sometimes pig-headed but always inclusive to anyone who pays their dues and comes and worships at the Shrine for those four days in mid-March.
So yeah, there’s a lot of hate expressed there but as we all know, love and hate are different sides of the same coin.
So what does Cheltenham mean to me? It means me and someone I’ve never met going batsh1t crazy because we’ve backed the same horse and it’s just hit the front at the final fence.
It means me laughing like a child again at the stories I hear – and the hard-luck ones, told self-deprecatingly are by far the best.
It means plans hatched over beers and curries in Stow on the Wold, Cirencester, Tewkesbury, Montpelier etc.
It means One Man sticking it to everyone who said he couldn’t win at Cheltenham.
It means the heartache of watching a kid like Jayne Mangan have the dream of her lifetime taken away from her in the twitch of Oscar Delta’s synapses, me writing to her to say how tough it must have been for her and receiving a beautiful letter back expressing her thanks but life was tougher for JT McNamara.
It means watching Istabraq bounding clear of the Champion Hurdle field. It means Kauto, Denman and my biggest ever ante-post bet Long Run going hammer and tongs for the final half mile in the Gold Cup.
Oh you know what I’m twitting on about here…..!
Now excuse me. I’ve got my Cheltenham shirts and suit to take to the dry cleaners and the Cheltenham CD for the car journey in every day, to burn.
Yeah – that’s how deep I get into this sh1t!
Joined: 01 Mar 03 | Topic/replies: 9,181 | Blogger: rogerthebutler's blog
It’s a pretty potent force, that’s for sure.
Like most, it gives a structure to my year both in terms of the racing and the cogitating over the form, ante-post bets, ‘who will run where’ and all the great irrelevancies associated with it. But also on a deeper, visceral level with my feeling I am able to work hard and devote myself to other, far more important, issues (family, work, friends) only so much, until I get my ‘reward’ with the spiritual renewal that is Cheltenham.
I’m prepared to admit I take Cheltenham way more seriously than I should and am probably too abrasive in my views now. Still, this is my opinion so, well, suck it up, disagree, laugh and move on.
For me though, Cheltenham is way too important to cheapen with twit marketing (‘Ladies Day’ FFS), asinine countdowns (Well done! You can count backwards from 11th March to the minute – you phooking retard!), the hype that this inherently worthy and magnificent event does not need and the increasingly repetitive and rip-off Preview Evenings cottage industry that has sprung up.
I’m in a minority of one too when I say I loathe the nationalism and flag-waving. That’s not what it’s about. Racing’s never about my ’group’ besting ‘your group’, which is why that whole Kauto vs Denman thing could go fk itself and the cancer it rode into town on too. It’s about respect for everyone – no, more than ‘respect’. It’s about defining ‘us’ the National Hunt fans as passionate, friendly, Stateless, sometimes pig-headed but always inclusive to anyone who pays their dues and comes and worships at the Shrine for those four days in mid-March.
So yeah, there’s a lot of hate expressed there but as we all know, love and hate are different sides of the same coin.
So what does Cheltenham mean to me? It means me and someone I’ve never met going batsh1t crazy because we’ve backed the same horse and it’s just hit the front at the final fence.
It means me laughing like a child again at the stories I hear – and the hard-luck ones, told self-deprecatingly are by far the best.
It means plans hatched over beers and curries in Stow on the Wold, Cirencester, Tewkesbury, Montpelier etc.
It means One Man sticking it to everyone who said he couldn’t win at Cheltenham.
It means the heartache of watching a kid like Jayne Mangan have the dream of her lifetime taken away from her in the twitch of Oscar Delta’s synapses, me writing to her to say how tough it must have been for her and receiving a beautiful letter back expressing her thanks but life was tougher for JT McNamara.
It means watching Istabraq bounding clear of the Champion Hurdle field. It means Kauto, Denman and my biggest ever ante-post bet Long Run going hammer and tongs for the final half mile in the Gold Cup.
Oh you know what I’m twitting on about here…..!
Now excuse me. I’ve got my Cheltenham shirts and suit to take to the dry cleaners and the Cheltenham CD for the car journey in every day, to burn.
Yeah – that’s how deep I get into this sh1t!
That's not me - there is a rogerthebutler (him) as well as a Roger The Butler (me). However, I might just memorise it and hit her with the speech!
Someone suggests you send her with the mother-in-law. Better still just send her back to the mother-in-law! I would bet money she is winding you up especially since the new appointment was for the next morning - the day you go to Chelts.
"Of course it's not MORE important Darling, but it is important. Given that we can only influence what happens in our lives, which rules out asking for the Cheltenham Festival to be moved, all I'm asking is that we postpone it for another week. The baby will still be there and it would make me really happy and of course I'll make it up to you".
To be delivered face to face, preferably with a bunch of blooms..
Thank me later.
To be delivered face to face, preferably with a bunch of blooms..
Thank me later.
To balance this out, you should post the same thread on mumsnet
Let's see what mumsnet think...
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/2010657-3-month-scan-clashes-with-Cheltenham-Festival
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/2010657-3-month-scan-clashes-with-Cheltenham-Festival
It's a no brainier.man up and just say no you ain't going.the 20 week scan the portent one.
On a brighter note, your nipper will be the oldest in the class.....on the downside side, she may be dropping it during the St. Leger.
@marychain1's mumnet thread includes helpful advice from FrankelInFoal.
Against that, anyone who thinks it is Frankel who will be in foal has clearly a limited grasp on the gestation process.
Against that, anyone who thinks it is Frankel who will be in foal has clearly a limited grasp on the gestation process.
marychain1 13:42
Let's see what mumsnet think...
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/2010657-3-month-scan-clashes-with-Cheltenham-Festival
Eurochick is a hot chick! Maybe she should be the vessel for the fruits of my loins next time.
Let's see what mumsnet think...
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/2010657-3-month-scan-clashes-with-Cheltenham-Festival
Eurochick is a hot chick! Maybe she should be the vessel for the fruits of my loins next time.
marychain - go back on and say its not your first, then see what happens
Already 50/50 on there roger......she's clearly wrong!
Already 50/50 on there roger......she's clearly wrong!
It's surprising to me that very few are realizing that this question was more than likely posed as a topic of humour rather than to start a proper debate about it.
It's causing a right stir on mumsnet. Brilliant decision to put it on there. Hilarious
i can't see any reason you need to be at the scan. if you don't watch out she will be expecting you to be there at the actual birth ffs
if your wife is getting upset at you not attending the scan, how will she feel when you tell her you want to name the baby Prestbury Park?
Time to stir things up on mumsnet a little more. Maybe some money that was supposed to be spent on prams and clothes should accidentally get diverted towards a cheeky antepost bet?
youngenglishmum Thu 27-Feb-14 16:25:22
He says that when Hurricane Fly romps up at Cheltenham, we can buy three prams. I'm so confused.
He says that when Hurricane Fly romps up at Cheltenham, we can buy three prams. I'm so confused.
That thread is now priceless marychain - absolutely hysterical stuff. You'd have thought someone with the name VivaleBeaver would have a sense of humour and sussed it.
At what point are you going to post the link to this thread?
At what point are you going to post the link to this thread?
I love that that there is now a debate on there over who will win the Champion Hurdle!
Please someone post on there that the Birth is due St Leger week 
Roger If you put with this sort of stuff then your days of watching the festival will be over anyway in a few years.
absolute legendary! pmsl at the whole wind up on mumsnet
Just about pished my pants reading that MumsNet thread - genius
Women are absolute masters at the emotional blackmail shiit. You're fuccked.
That mumsnet stuff was very funny but I wouldn't want to meet some of those chicks if they had a pair of scissors in their hand. 
The game is up on mumsnet. Fair play to the mumsnet lot as well, they were pretty decent and reasonable. I was actually quite surprised by how little the advice on there differed from the advice on here.
Maybe there's hope for us all?
Maybe there's hope for us all?
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