I've had a couple of compliments like that. I keep them tucked away in a corner of my mind, and if I'm having a bad day I take them out and look them over.

That's nice :)

I watched an episode of a 'Trinny and Susannah' show where they asked women to rank themselves out of 10, and then had men rank them. Predictably, the men went for the 'unconventionally attractive' women (curvy, middle-aged, extroverted), because they knew they were on a TV show about challenging conventional…

No, he didn't tell the intruder that he didn't have his legs on, he screamed loudly to compensate for not having his legs on, and he wanted to sound intimidating and less vulnerable: "I screamed at the intruder because I did not have my legs on I felt vulnerable."

The wording was a little off. He should have said "Nothing can be further from the truth THAN that I planned the murder of my girlfriend."

Yes, Matthew is a milksop. The final scene was weird, when Matthew was gushing over his beautiful wife and bonny baby and Mary was abrupt and matter-of-fact. There was never really a whole lot of chemistry between them.

My prediction: Mary will fall in love with someone, and the writers with throw many and varied obstacles in their way:

I accidentally said something about Matthew's demise on Slate last week, because I thought that episode had already aired in the US. It lasted for less than a minute, but someone called me "excrement" and damned me to hell.

I'm just writing this comment to give you the acknowledgement you deserve.

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?