Hello
Kiwi, I do feel for you about the insomnia. I'm up virtually every night at the moment, I have forgetten how it feels to wake in the morning without a headache and sore eyes, so tons of sympathy but no tips as I haven't got it cracked 
DP swears by an ep of Father Ted if he is up in the night (funny, ultimately comforting) but it's never worked for me. Night Nurse - we-ell...not so keen on that idea as I had a client who got addicted to it 
Beans, as long as your DH doesn't start drinking it in the day 'to take the edge off', he should be ok.
Spot, I totally get your reasons for liking the flat as they are the reasons I would like it. One thing I would ask is is there any scope for increasing its value? That way it would be less of a biggie if you did have to move in a couple of years. As to food - it's been a bad day with that here too. A lot of yoghurts and boss all else. Some days you have to write off, I guess. Glad you've been out.
Avo, I was quite agog at the ghastliness of your PILs, though I know you have alerted us to their pooeyness before. I think you did well to get through the visit without karate chopping them. Therapy for the sick phobia sounds good. My late DH's mum suffered from this and had to give up her hard won place at med school because of it.
Invis, I have started The Slap. ENjoying it so far but only read a bit. I was amused to read that someone seems to say that English people are known in Australia for not bringing stuff along for a bbq On a nitpicky point I found that too many characters have been introduced at once and I can't keep a handle on 'em.
I will be trying that wine, Veggie. I enjoyed the wine chat yesterday. I was only lurking as I was a) busy but b) in a bit of a black mood, which hasn't really lifted. Feel free to skip...as it probably won't make much sense and I need to be oblique, but I am waiting for the last bit of money I am due from DH's Estate, and really do need it as I have been skating on thin ice for a few months now, and I learned yesterday that due to someone else's, well, negligence or worse, it's going to be delayed even more, possibly until Nov, thus giving me a big problem. The whole thing is very stressful and complex and ugly anyway and has been dragging on for years. Second thing is, I am feeling very sad about DH himself at the moment. Usually I am in the mode where I just feel lucky he was ever in my life at all but I do still have periods where I find it hard to bear, feel cheated and feel a dreadful longing for when he was here, which is obviously very confusing given that I now have a life with DP, whom I do actually love. One of DH's friends, a woman who caused a lot of trouble for me, is publicising a book she has written and she talked about him in one interview and I found that very painful, for lots of reasons. There was quite a lot of fallout after DH died, with his former wife and this particular friend, and between them they made everything even worse than it already was, and as a result there are other friends of DH's, who I thought were friends of mine and whom I loved, who inexplicably no longer speak to me or want to be my friend and that's very painful as well and still really upsets me.
So there's all that going on and the stress of the house and the lack of sleep and the usual sense of being cut off from London friends (who in my self-pitying state I feel again have forgotten about me), career going down the bog etc.
It's probably partly the swirl of late pregnancy hormones just stirring everything up in my mind, but I have really struggled this last couple of days, and the only way I can describe it is to say I feel like I have temporarily lost my grip on all that's good.
DP has really tried his best to be supportive. He isn't naturally very empathetic, as he admits himself, or patient with anyone who is feeling a bit crummy or down. But I am touched he has tried.
His Mum is coming to stay tomorrow to help us with the house. Very kind, yes, but she is staying until Saturday and I feel so flipping fragile I just don't know how I am going to stand her annoying remarks.
Sorry for the gloomfest. I do know that it's just a bad phase and that I am basically positive and practical, but lack of sleep/stress about the house/cash flow/ rigours of late pregnancy and the opportunity to do anything to help my career or social life being temporarily curtailed are really exterminating my mojo at the moment. The stuff about DH is in my bones, anyway, and sometimes it just kind of seeps out. I accept that. Also, some times in your life are just harder than others - I accept that as well. You've just got to keep batting...keep batting...keep batting. Oh, but jeepers! I feel like such a failure sometimes. Night all.