Dogs are essential when you have a baby in the house, especially around weaning time when their floor cleaning skills become invaluable!
Huge congratulations to Pol. It sounds as though it didn't all go according to plan, but as we say when landing aeroplanes - any one you can walk away from is a good one. I suspect the same applies to laying babies.
Cluck you know what you need to do - get that hospital bag packed, drive the route to the hospital over and over again at different times of day to check whether anything will hold you up, go on the hospital tour, have the one-to-one de-brief with a consultant and a MW at the hospital to discuss last time and what you want this time - focussing all the time on what the hospital can provide, type up all the hospital phone numbers, chat to Little Chick about what will happen when you go to hospital, etc, etc, etc. Then sit back and wait for baby to make appearance in a manner or place that you are not prepared for! 
Works every time.
As for the SH thing, Ski Gals, it makes me laugh every time I think about it. If you really want a good laugh, do a search and count how many times he goes on about me. What a sad tit. Seems he thinks about me waaay more than I think about him - poor chap. Anyway, on a more general skiing front, TT had a ski lesson at Christmas at the Snozone in Milton Keynes. She loved it! Which was fab as during the lesson she fell over repeatedly, had erratic steering, and struggled with the magic carpet. It was difficult to tell from the look on her face whether she was enjoying it or hating it. So ski lessons here we come on holiday! By the end of the week she will be skiing faster than us and I will no doubt be traumatised every time she skis near an edge.
Ooh - and I am now officially a Pony Club Mum!