Evening lovelies! What a grey wet Sunday and now its evening, which means work tomorrow!! Boo!! except nix and owl 
The pains are much better since yesterday afternoon, thanks everyone for asking. Really not sure what they were, but found them especially worrying as it was painful to touch. I still keep getting mild pain- more just discomfort, but in a different way to normal. But still feeling pup, so I haven't done anything about it. However I'm going to make an apt with mw on tomorrow- although apt will probably be weds as that's her first clinic of the week in my area. I had a urine test for a UTI at my scan over a week and a half ago ad I've not heard back and my lower back pain has been constant one for 2 weeks and my upper back pain is back with a vengeance! So I might as well see her.
Hope everyone else is good and have managed to have a lovely weekend despite the rain!
owl 3 weeks!!! Eek!!! 
But you're going to be fine! I have regular wobbles about how much life is going to change and I'm sure in many ways I just can't even comprehend how, but the change will be so amazing and I just know you're going to cope just fine. I don't think you can be prepared really, but you'll know what to do. The best advice I've had was from a friend who like me likes to be in control. She just said, try not to control it. Don't have expectations of when it will or won't sleep, eat poop etc, because inevitably it's impossible to control. Just take the time to figure out the babies routine- not getting them used to what you think it should be. Maybe she's wrong, but it made a lot if sense to me (which I'd appreciate people reminding me of in 18weeks when I'm metalling!)
wiw lovely to here from you. Sorry it's been so wet and grey here for you, but I bet the cool breeze is a nice welcomed change from the sticky gets of Dubai? Tour of the olympic grounds sounds interesting. How much longer do you have here? Any other lovely plans?
Welcome banana nice to see you move over from the FO room.
harassed and hairy how are you both doing?
So, the ominous DD as passed! I had a slobbery snotty wet cry on the way home from the shops yesterday morning. Id been to the next sale (not at 5am I hasten to add!) and had forgotten when I suddenly I was hit by clear vivid memory of being at our 12 week scan and getting the terrible news. Everything was as clear as yesterday. What both DH and I were wearing, the radiologists face, exactly what she said, what I said, how I burst into tears. Everything. So I slobbered all the way home. But I think that got it out if my system (panic aside) and I and a lovely evening with friends. Ended up in a Jazz bar after dinner which pup definitely enjoyed!!!
DH said he saw our neighbour this morning burying something in the corner of their garden (their garden crosses the back of our house) in the rain and that she was crying. He said it was a tiny blue box, maybe half the size of a box of 6 eggs. He just couldn't help but think that the might be going through a mc. They only moved in a week ago so really don't know them very well, but unless they had a tiny pet it's hard to think what it could be. Having said that, if I'd have seen that 8 months ago, never in a million years would I think about a mc. Just makes me want to do something.