Morning campers! Hope everyone's woken up feeling good and has nice things planned for today.
Hermione your dream is so funny! I had baby-anxiety dreams the night before my last scan. Inevitable, I think - just our brains getting us ready for the inevitable universe-shift that's going to occur!
JoJo hope you had a great family day yesterday!
myjob hope your pain has subsided? Am sure it must just be ligament pain or something (she says, repeating stuff she's heard but doesn't know much about!)
Tiddley I loooove the sound of that brown bear coat! I may have to invest x2 
Cute overload! Good luck for scan today ? and then jollies! Yippee!
Pink Yes, I've shifted my OU tutorials to Oxford. I've got stellar feedback from my students over the past two years (all the cake, no doubt) so I felt in a strong enough position to say 'Look, I'm pregnant with twins and it's going to be much easier for me to carry on teaching into the future if tutorials were in Oxford' and hey presto, they did it. It means I'm out of the house for 3 hours rather than 5-6, which is going to be much more manageable for DH and family time on the 7 Saturdays a year I teach. But I did feel quite a big pang of guilt when all my students, before we'd started the class proper, were wondering why - when they usually have tutorials in Reading - they had to come that bit further to Oxford?eek! It was a great tutorial, though. They truly are a lovely bunch and I feel a bit sad that I won't be with them all the way through. Bit disruptive for them too. Me too re autumn ? or is spring my favourite? ? never can decide - one of two anyway!
Lexi you are so nesting! I want a wood burning stove in by the time winter arrives so I can hibernate! You never know, I may even take up crochet!
Em what a lovely and generous BF you have!
Tramp sounds like an excellent day! Bet your Ma was really chuffed to be so involved. My Mum is v. far away but is busy crocheting and we speak more on the phone. She just needs to hear everything is okay every couple of days, which is nice. And she's enjoying telling everyone at her school. Yesterday we confirmed our trip up north in two weeks time in which we hope to load up the back of an estate car with a cot, changing table, pumps, moses baskets, sterilisers and basically everything anything friends and family have got spare ? then we'll do a stocktake and see where we are. No doubt a spreadsheet will happen here too!
Emus how's the Mac issue?
Ood my family still serve party food for our birthdays ? even though we're all adults! Sometimes even on a Sunday when people are over
Zoey you must fill us in on your surprise! Exciting!!
On belly buttons, I can barely look at mine now because it makes me feel queasy! It used to be a sort of recessed outy. So cute and button like. And now it's a pushed out outy and it does make me feel funny to see it!
Ohhhhh our hallways / stairwell looks much better. Before: yellow walls and creamy cream woodwork. After: very light brown walls and soft off-white woodwork. I'm now not sure about the wall colour - it's a bit too pinky - but I think it's too late. DH would go spare if I asked to change it now (and it would be £50+ of paint down the drain!) Think it will be fine once 2nd coat on and furniture and artwork/picture frames back up. This feels great: just need to get book off to press (sorry, I know you all must be sick of hearing about it!!) and then crazy October finished and we can start moving rooms around, decorating, new kitchen etc! Can Not Wait!