Morning ladies! (well, it is for me, I only just got up) 
Ah, lots to catch up on.
Festie I hate H&M with a passion, ever since as a (not that fat) 20 year old I tried on a dress and couldn't even get a size 20 over my probably-not-much-bigger-than-a-16-at-the-time bottom. I cried in the dressing room that day and swore never to give my custom to a shop that so obviously didn't cater for curves...
Interesting pattern. Not for me, reminds of something, but I'm not sure what. I think the moose in the get-along gang wore something similar to the brown outfit. I may have misremembered that though...
Disco thanks for the tips re: John Lewis. They are exactly what I was looking for, but horrifically expensive- even with my 25% discount! Have bookmarked some of the others though, they look a bit more reasonable!
And no, you're not weird for wanting to dress a baby in black. My mum and dad suggested I dress ours in black, like the baby from the Addams Family, and my sister suggested drawing on a moustache... I turned round and DH just had this look of OH YEAH! on his face- and I did too! Lol. Hell, if there's going to be nappy pins around, may as well make a punk statement at the same time...
I saw a pattern in a book once for a hat which was a union jack helmet style hat with earflaps, and it had a red wool mohican on it. It was awesome. A baby needs one of these! I expect I could just get my mum or sister or someone who can knit on needles smaller than 20mm (hangs head in shame) to just knit a baby cap with earflaps, and I could tuft in the mohican...it can't be that hard!
Lil I would put ov at either cd10 or 14. Like Moo says, wait and see what your next temps are... btw did you manage to dtd twice in one day? Superwoman!!!
Alex I know just how you feel,as I went to art school, and spent a good many years just buying wool from charity shops for no other reason than it was pretty, cheap and I damn well wanted it. All my crafting supplies are generally in plastic lidded tubs I bought from Asda, and they all stash neatly under the bed. We have 4 rooms in our house, so the double guest room has an under-bed space stuffed with boxes, as does the single guest room, and my jewellery-making stuff is in the living room...somewhere... there's a desk in there which was supposed to be for hobbycraft, but got buried in crap.
We're going to put the cot in our room, and frankly keep it there, or it's going to be hard for my family to come and stay. I'll worry about more long-term solutions when I have to! Of course if I just learnt to knit on small needles I could knit loads of stuff and that would emtpy the boxes quickly... I'd like to build some storage, and have all the boxes along one wall for easy access. But that's on hold until DH lets me do proper DIY again. Sigh. [Thinks longingly of jigsaw and belt sander]...
And last but not least, Winkly, we're here, we care, and we all understand. You rant away whenever you feel like it. Sometimes guys can be completely oblivious of our feelings. They can't help it, they're just rubbish, lol!