Thanks, it's fairly soothed now, seeing the second one born in the pool as planned helped to erradicate those nightmares.

It's good to have a plan!

Most Europeans spend their holidays at home or in cheap resorts, not in their beach or country houses. It's not all Downton Abbey, you know!

If these couches could talk...

Too true.

Nope sorry, circulating blood volume increases by 50% or more during pregnancy and the average blood pressure goes down not up.

He was adorable in that. So cute standing outside the door with his signs....

It was one of those series wasn't it. Out while I was at Uni, and all the drinking and falling in and out of bed. It was like Sex in the City in the way everyone was talking about it.

Oooh, the post Jeff episodes were terrible. REALLY bad.

Exactly. I can't be alone in buying my wedding dress myself, because I knew what I wanted and didn't want to have to answer to anyone else's expectations of what I would wear that day.

Steve: Jeff, Jeff, I know about the giggle loop, the sock gap, the nudity buffer, and what you said to Audrey Watkins. Believe me, there is nothing you can possibly say that will surprise me. What’s gone wrong this time?

No, no. Will not be running around Scotland espousing the doctrine of CJL, you are safe from hoards of Scottish acolytes!

Thank you, this was my point exactly.

Prescriptions are now free in Scotland and Wales. You paid the same price whether your drug cost £1 or £100 a month. By far, the majority paid less for their prescriptions than the drugs cost and their were monthly/6 and 12 monthly fees you could pay, then get all your prescriptions free for that period.

Wow, thanks for the insight.

Lots of female contraceptives interfere with libido too, and the penis doesn't have to be the be-all-and-end-all, but I take your point.

In the UK we only have 'Party Political Broadcasts' these are hilarious in their dullness. They happen once in a blue moon and are heavily trailed in advance, most people assume so you can turn off the television.

They were talking about this on the scottish news as I drove home last night. The reporter was interviewing the scientist and they talked about the other options. He felt a hormonal contaceptive for men could be 3-4 years away, but the non-hormonal one more like 10.

A friend of mine's son crushed his hand in a door (3 broken fingers and a de-gloving injury, he needed quite a bit of surgery) when he was about 6 or 7. They called him to see if he wanted to come get him from the school! With his fingers inside out and hanging off and pouring blood. Maybe because he was a doctor? …

I make my feelings about these matters known by how I vote for them. If the majority goes against me then that is how democracy works. I would never expect my wishes to over-rule everyone elses. It's part of living in a functioning democracy. Of course I am not going to stamp my foot and say 'but I don't like…