Can I just jump in and say, on the back of your "books for soldiers" suggestion, that if you are sitting there holding an embarrassing bodice ripper or a fanciful quilting novel, and you are wondering if, in fact, any proper soldier would want to read something so twee... The answer is YES.

...and for wool socks and gloves ;)

Oh, my grandpa had a delightful English mate who wore a hat like this! He was also seven foot tall and loved to play practical jokes and tell rude stories. I idolised him. Thanks for bringing me back happy memories!

Absolutely.

Yeah, but you run, therefore cold forces you to exercise. Excellent! More cold = more skinny! The science works. ;)

Trust your gut, then be decisive. If you are going to go, go early, and have a plan. Good luck!

Oh damn kids, so easily befuddled...
I recall the day my daughter, about 2 years old, dragged out my foot spa and shat in it, thinking it was a potty. Le sigh.

"Likely does not matter"? Nice assumption. Our "flushable" wipes go into the feminine hygiene bin for exactly this reason, and we don't use them at home - if there's that much mess, they get hosed down in the bath instead.
(We use the flushable wiped instead of the baby wipes because they are actually cheaper here, but…

Wanna swap lives for a year? You'll have to be a provincial housewife in the antipodes, with a mostly absent husband, but you will get to go to the military balls.... SO much glam. Expensive, bank breaking glam.

Take it! It's yours, with my compliments.

Exactly. Like Thatcher said, "power is like being a lady... If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Overt displays of rudeness just show you are losing control of a situation.

I need these. My knees are gross from kneeling (no, not THAT kind of kneeling, the scrubbing, toddler chasing kind) and I'd love to have some socially acceptable knee pads for daily wear!

My four year old would wear this to bed and have mermaid dreams.

If this is going to be a popular silhouette, I'm figuring corsets are on the way back in too.

I would wear this every day.

Being polite, and having manners, is just behaving in a way that makes other people feel comfortable.

I have a wide variety of wiping implements in my handbag. It comes from having abnormally adventurous and naturally filthy young children. I have baby wipes for dirty fingers, flushable wipes for filthy bottoms, a damp, bagged flannel for sticky faces, disposable tissues for epic snots, and a couple of lovely hankies…

I have a wide variety of wiping implements in my handbag. It comes from having abnormally adventurous and naturally filthy young children. I have baby wipes for dirty fingers, flushable wipes for filthy bottoms, a damp, bagged flannel for sticky faces, disposable tissues for epic snots, and a couple of lovely hankies…

What? That is INSANE.
Are they going to put it back again the second week of January?

Oh, I hear you. I loved zumba when I went with my mates, but then I moved and the closest class was near the uni. It was FULL of French speaking ballerinas and lithe, coordinated twenty year olds. Far less fun.