Rot you, Lizz, it's been pouring with rain all day here!!
Wilkie - ds2 is still in a cot. Mostly because we can't get the fecker darling out of our room and there's only room for a cot (and even then I can't get the flipping chest of drawers open ). If there was room for a bed I might put him in one just so that he could have a duvet because he gets out of his sleeping bags all the time (then wails at 3am because he's cold). Spoke to Loosh this week, actually. Her dh was pretty poorly with his tummy and just had an enormous operation. Hopefully it will make him feel like a new man, but it's all been really stressful, and he'll have to have another operation in the future. And he works for HBOS, so another one affected by the financial meltdown. As, sadly, is my dh. He made partner in Sugust, but has to buy in to the tune of £125,000 [ouch]. He had originally secured a loan from RBS, but they fannied around not getting the paperwork to him to sign, and now they've gone back on it and said in the current climate that they need to raise the interest rate (from already pretty high, to extortionate). He's looking around, but funnily enough, banks aren't falling over themselves to hand out loans to people.
PCF - glad the bleeding has stopped, hope the sickness stops soon too.
LTH - thinking of your friend today, hope the op is ok.
kw3 - eurgh. Definitely not a job I'd like to do!
UD - like everyone has said. We RR'd ds1 - said "it's nighttime, it's time to go to sleep", not angry, just calm, didn't say anything else. It didn't work well with him, just seemed to stir him up every time we went in. With ds2 we did more of a gradual withdrawal, inching inexorably backwards out of the room, which seemed to work with him (though he's in a cot; the reason we were doing RR with ds1 was because we kept having to put him back in the flipping bed!).