Lovely news, NU. I hope the new arrival will not have to spend too long in SCIBU and everyone will be home together soon.
CV, what is a "Scuba skirt" and why is it so named? 
V nice choices by the way.
Crepeys, you may have made a real woman of me. Having been a long-time dress-hater (since my teens), this year I have purchased 3 (three, III). I bought one in the winter and wore it so much more than I was expecting to. Mainly because it actually suited me 
. Then, because I have sweated through invigilation in previous years due to an insistence on wearing trousers and clumpy shoes, I bought this - as I had a hefty discount voucher. I love the dress and wore it a lot during exams and even managed to already have shoes that went with it.
MrsS, maybe your dh is doing a head-in-sand job. They don't like to really consider what nasty health issues might mean, so they just opt not to think about them. At least this is what dh does, even about his own. The underlying anxiety about his 3-monthly checkups exhibited in some pretty odd ways and he always denied and still denies that he is actively worrying about it until we walk out of the consulting room and he says "Well, that's a relief. I didn't realise how much I was worrying about it." Every bloody time. He has been on 6-monthly checks since the autumn, but the month before check-up date, we both get wound up. The trouble with the 3-monthly schedule is that you spend 6 weeks post-check being relieved and not thinking about it and then 6 weeks before the next one getting anxious. At least that's the pattern here.
Over the past 20 years I have had a bunch of cancerous skin thingies removed from my neck and the side of my face. They are just in the surface of the skin - just basal and more recently squamous, rather than melanoma, so no big deal - but I've now got a rather large one just below my eye socket. The GP says he's going to freeze it. Am I going to end up with an obvious scar, I wonder?