Tom Ford Traceless Stick Foundation.

Tom Ford Traceless Stick Foundation.

I am pregnant with my first child, and in the UK. I will have a year off work on maternity pay. The law here says I can share that leave with my husband. For the first six weeks I/we get 90% of average weekly earnings before tax; after that it drops to £139.38 if your average weekly earnings are higher than £139.38.

I considered it for the baby I’m having in April - and then dropped the idea after the third spluttering-with-laughter reaction from friends I discussed it with.

At 40, I’m pregnant for the first time (the first time I’ve managed to hold on to a pregnancy for long enough for my body to change shape, anyway), and for the first time in my LIFE I’m not caring about letting it all hang out. It’s wonderful - I’d actually go so far as to call it liberating. I’m at a stage where…

I got the flats too! I’ve bought several replacement pairs since. It’d be really good to see this column brought back. (AND MILLIHELEN.)

Not being snarky - what’s actually *nice* from the Body Shop these days? I haven’t shopped there in about twenty years (I kind of grew out of White Musk).

Not being snarky - what’s actually *nice* from the Body Shop these days? I haven’t shopped there in about twenty…

I do not say this to excuse anything, but I imagine they’re scared.

An honest-to-god video cassette of Terminator 2. I was 15, he was 17. We groped one another ineffectually on my parents’ couch. Nobody came. He turned out to be gay. And I have just realised that this all happened a horrifying QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO.

Perfect. Thanks for MAKING ME CRY.

I LIVE for the lotion, but to my everlasting misery, the wash stings my face like crazy.

I LIVE for the lotion, but to my everlasting misery, the wash stings my face like crazy.

I wonder if that’s a tactic noted from the UK news this week and borrowed from the far left in the UK? Jeremy Corbyn held a rally which attracted some thousands of people; even so, some of his supporters (who are VERY far to the left of the traditional Labour party; I’m not trying to slur anybody by referring to them…

I think Mom is probably more deserving of the hug. I hope she made him clean up the mess.

The reviews of this movie seem to have hit a nerve with a very particular sort of person. It’s...refreshing to see so many of them in the comments here.

I stopped drinking when I started trying to conceive, and never started again once I realised how much better I felt. (I’m part-Chinese - it really doesn’t agree with me.) I’m not militant about it, and I’ll happily have a drink at your wedding or your kid’s christening; sometimes I feel a little sad to be missing…

Repeated miscarriage-haver and ectopic-pregnancy haver (I can sadly confirm that there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING funny about them, and I have the scars to prove it) here. I thought exactly the same thing, and I am SO GLAD she didn’t go into it. Fame shouldn’t make your body public property.

They’re fantastic - lovely texture, too. They’re filled with little seeds that sort of pop when you chew them.

Thank you. I admire you and other people in this field enormously. I had the opportunity to go into family law after I finished law school, but decided at the time that I wasn’t psychologically robust enough to deal with it. I have enormous respect for people who are.

I die.