This looks really simple, I have a recipe for 'wholegrain' bread which uses almond flour and flaxseed but also ground arrowroot, which I am currently out of. I'm desperate for some bread and I have all of the stuff in your recipe so will give it a whirl, thanks!

We are fortunate enough to have a relative who works with a Nobel prize-winning economist. When I was in despair about not being able to buy a house even though I have a young daughter, he brought me comfort by saying that unless you bought prior to around 2002 or something (can't remember exactly, I was hormonal and…

I love the Snot Sucker when it's a clear, thin snot but when it's thicker and has any colour my gag reflex kicks in and I need to bring out the big guns. Crap - no probs, thick snot - vom.

When I feel some cute moments coming, I grab the Baby Vac and get-a-suckin', gives me a good 10 minutes of de-snottified child: http://www.babyvac.co.uk/

I think it would be so cool for you to be so close to someone and have them watching your back right from the get-go. And, having recently escaped from newborn hell I am also thinking THANK CHRIST THOSE ARE SOMEONE ELSE'S KIDS.

Thank you! I'm also trying to figure out how to pack lightly when it's going to be Arctic freezing where I'm going but that's another conversation for another thread I think...

Any tips for making the airport less crappy and more fun when you are flying across the Atlantic on your own with a year-and-a-half old toddler? Not that I'm doing that on Boxing Day or anything.

Well the fact you're giving it so much thought in either direction means if/when it does happen you'll be ahead of the game in so many ways - best of luck whichever way it goes. You can always come babysit and see how you get on. Seriously, come babysit, I need to get outta this house!

Cool - let me just say that having a life and learning about myself in my 20s and 30s is what makes it much easier to be a mom at 40(ish). Having a baby for the first time is a great leveller, no one knows what they are doing be they 19, 29 or 39 so might as well nuture yourself as long as you can before you pass that…

I didn't even meet my husband til I was 37, up until then kids were NOT. ON. THE. RADAR. Was never bothered about having kids, was sure I was born without a biological clock. The whole time I was on the first date with my eventual-husband I was thinking 'Oh man I wanna have a kid with this guy'. I'd never had that…

Damn, I had my first at 39 and I still don't think I was ready. At 26 I was still trying to figure out how to get to work on time.

And my friends roll their eyes at me when I say I want to enroll my daughter in krav maga classes when she's old enough - they all have boys!

Several years ago the head of my department kept a drawer full of Scottish whisky and chocolates that he would take with him on his trips to Thailand (on his own, natch) as presents/payments for his 'girlfriends'. He'd comment on a co-worker's daughter's photo with 'Phwoar, she's gonna be a real looker when she's…

There are also some incredibly fucked-up things that happen to your body during pregnancy that disappear shortly after birth. SPD, you fucker, I'm talking about you. From 18 weeks until the day I gave birth (so 22 weeks, the longest 22 weeks of my life) my pelvis was nearly split in two, I couldn't walk, couldn't…

I still call 18:00 '8 o'clock' because I see the 8 and it just pops out of my mouth, 20:00 was '10 o'clock' for ages. I was never one of these 'Ugh, nothing is the SAME here!' types but some things are taking a long time to sink in!

Would love one which takes metric into consideration as well. All of my cookbooks are from back home but everything here in the UK is sold in grams. The first time I tried making chocolate chip cookies which called for a stick of butter I tried carving the giant block of butter I had into what I thought from memory…

Whenever I'm buying on eBay (which is a lot now I have a kid, esp with shoes) I always filter to auctions - in my area it seems no one researches what similar auctions went for and set their BIN way too high so no one will ever buy it. Why set something at a BIN of £20 when a search of completed items shows it never…

The smartest thing I ever did was pick a line of work in which I enjoy what I actually do but work in an industry full of asshats (I work in IT for a particularly loathsome groups of professionals) so even if I told my employers back home to fuck off, I'd have another job by the end of the week because so few people…

I have never been able to look at O'Brien the same since I saw her in this show (and this episode in particular... action starts around 3:50, O'Brien's money shot somewhere around 7:30).

I was getting some jeans mended the other day and when I went to pick them up from the seamstress' home she made me a cuppa and we sat down for a chat. A commercial for Downton Abbey came on (it starts here again next month - woohoo!) and she was all 'oh love, we're dead excited' so I said 'oh you are a big Downton…