Why is he dressed like Wee Willy Winkie?

It's incurable.

It's not unreasonable to expect high journalistic standards, even in very sad stories. Writing matters to journalists, and it's okay that it matters to readers too.

What has the family been saying? (This isn't a challenge, I just genuinely don't know what they've been saying).

I have night terrors, and they're pretty full on. I often think there's an intruder, and I have to protect myself or someone else from them. I usually try and talk them out of killing me, which lasts for about 10 seconds before I wake up and feel like an idiot.

It was strange that a South African journalist said almost immediately "he must have thought she was an intruder!" No one wants to face the other possibility.

You might be right. However, she was able to get into the bathroom and shut the door, and the bullet to her hand apparently suggests she was shielding her face. So if he did hit her with a cricket bat first, it didn't kill her.

It wasn't really an "absurd assumption," it was just a casual idea.

It wouldn't be an excuse, it would be a mitigating circumstance. It happen to a man in the UK fairly recently, who killed his wife because he thought she was an intruder (he actually thought he was protecting his wife from an intruder) and he didn't snap out of it until it was all over.

Apparently her overnight bag was there, and it was obvious that they had both been sleeping in the bed. Which makes the invader theory even harder to prove.

What about...ellipses.....? The more you use........the more better it is................right?

I have no problem with the multiple clauses in that sentence, due to my intellectual superiority. I'm also pretty sure I read it faster than everyone else.

"Anyone else have flashbacks of Watership Down?"

Yeah, when you start weeping tears of joy and/or sympathy over a baby deer...

Aw. Is it bad that I still want one? That I in fact want an assortment of baby woodland creatures to follow me everywhere I go?

You need no excuse to share the cuteness!

I just realised the other day: Bambi, Babaar and Kimba the White Lion ALL had their mothers killed and/or taken by hunters. No wonder I'm so messed up as an adult.

I think you mean it doesn't exclusively mean victory. I didn't say it did.

I had a summer camp & maxi pads experience that was like that only worse. So much worse that I still feel physically nauseous if I think about it.

I don't think it's true that babies resemble their fathers for the first year. I'm thinking of at least two baby-friends who looked like their softer, fair-haired mother when they were little and look more and more like their darker-haired, masculine father as they get older. Genes are 50/50, so it's always a…