right, going to attempt a one handed catch up so pease forgive typos!
wg your mil is a total hucking loon and thank goodness dh is on your side. tbh in that situation I wouldn't feel guilty about minimising contact with her, no doubt some of the people in the toxic parenting thread would say it counts the same for grandparents too. as you say it is sad for dh but there's no point having loits oif encounters that make you all feel bad - I;m not really a believer in the school of "they're a relative, you musyt ensure lots of conract for the grandkids" if that contact does nobody any good and just serves to make a cross old lady get some nasty satisfaction out of hjurting people's feelings. very pleased to hear you made bowel noises at her! can't help re mastitis but looks like you'e had some good ideas on fb
pingu hurrah fior your baby news! brilliant, another thread baby :)
arti hope the worms are all gone now., the fb picsd of your new pad are gorgeous 
summer ditto t o the mil commemnts for yours, can you persuade her not to move quite so close?!
trace, your house has some phenomenal views, they should help sell iy! Don't feel bad about getting them to do new pics, after all that's what you're paying them for. and stop feeling bad aboput the cost of your medicine [wags finger], if it is what works for you then it's what you need and would be a bargain at any price. hpe your manager will be supportive, it's great to hear you feeling so positive about going back to work.
beans great news about your dad and mil! so glad to hear they're both doing so well. it is amazing to think of p as baing 9 months old! and to think you helped kick off the thread baby boom :)
lady, hope the nobbers nice people at the il sort out your cheque soon, dd's godfather has been told he paid about 1800 too little last year owing to some tax code error, and has to pat it all back in one . then they sent him two new and different tax codes for this year, in the same envelope 
vag dear lord, ds plus coffee beans 
that musty have been an 'energetic' time! scary lady sounds as if she has a few issues with appropriate boundaries, def not unreasonable to keep givimg her the message that it was a v bad time for you. Oh we have irdered a bakfiets :) S loved it and E goes in a little baby seat thingy facing me. Man is having the frame sent through and will build it for us, I will get my freedom back and the 2.5 mile round trip to/rom nursey will stop taking us 2.5 hours
jb well dome you and j for keeping the feeding going through such tough times :) it will opnly get easier fromn noow. I know what you mean about she should still be in your tummy, it's so odd to see them out in the world already when really they should still be growing in the dark. But hey it means extra weeks we get to spend getting yo know them :) defo getr tyhe movers to pack for you...
zj that is a fabulous frog story! 
spot, you and your boys are absolute wonders of strength. so pleased to hear b seems to be on the mend and doing fine without his tube. sending you lots of hugs.
rubes thanks for the offer of clothes, we're fine now as E is pretty much normal size now for the clothes we have from S, fortinately they're both from the same time of year so our 3-6 clothes from S are the right season for E.
update on baby stuff - E still very windy at night, and likes to get all wriggly in the bed from about 5am so I cn't be sure if she's awake or not. naps ok in the sling which is good but it's just that feeling of ;this is personal' when she's in tehre and still struggling and wriggling and yelling, S bless her is being very patient and manages to ignore the yelling. Also she just loves being a big sis, today she was in a vile mood after her nap but when she saw E was all smiles. She's being vbery defiant at the moment which is quite hard to deal with - have been using sanctions (eg losing her maisy mouse dvds) and rewards - stickers etc- but diesn't seem to work. Nursery want to start putting her in knickers while she's with them, seemingly because one day last week she had 3 dry nappies. This worries me a lot, I really don't want her started before we're ready and sicen she can't tell us when she's about to do a poo and sometimes denies it when she has, there seems very little point. Also a few nights back she had a poo early in teh night but didn';t wake up (oir at least didn't ask to be cahnged), come the morning her bum was all crusted and red with poo and since then she's been very scared of nappy changes (we have to put her in teh shower to clean her if she's pooed rather than use wipes, it's that bad) so surely this would be a very bad time to try potty training?
well the house story for us... we've sold it! god several offers and in the end the highest came from a lovely couple, both medics and she's a cox too so they'll have it. The besrt part is thar because tey;re first time buyers, they're happy to wait as long as it takes us to find a place, so they can build up their deposit more. Have been looking round at penty of places but will not leave this house unless we find somewhere that's right for us.
sl have had a look at that house you linked to and it's a bit too close to CH road, the street is very noisy and just a bit depressing really. There was no evidence of children and the houses looked a bit run down and sorry for themselves. Will be looking at this place and (like beans) seeing if they'll take an offer at least 20% under the asking 
We sold for 5% above the asking price which was nice!
actually what do you think ladies, this place has already been reduced, would it be worth offering a lot lower? We really can't go above 500 but if they've dropped from 575 to 550 already, might they take a much lower offer to get a sale? Would need a bit of work, but is huuuuuge big house
and those of you keen on interior decoration might like this one... hmmmm interesting!