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This is a great idea, but yeah, I think the height is an issue. That is back pain just waiting to happen.

Sigh... I moved into a place sight unseen three days ago. It's not an experience I recommend! The boarding school my partner now teaches at provides accommodation for all its teachers and all we had to go on was number of bedrooms, vague floor plan and a picture of the outside from Google Street View. The state of the place is dire and the fixtures badly need updating but I'm starting to feel slightly more positive about it after a good clean. I suppose paint will transform almost any space.

...I had it in my mind that pregnant women shouldn't eat fish. Definitely no mercury-heavy stuff like swordfish and tuna (I think). Is the rest okay to eat then?

@nikki moore, most fish is perfectly fine to eat in pregnancy. You're just supposed to limit the amount of oily fish you eat - tuna, salmon, mackerel etc. because it's higher in certain pollutants. But it's actually recommended that you eat it once or twice a week. (Swordfish, marlin and shark are the no no's because of the mercury levels, as far as I know.)

"4 month old Roman will soon join his older brother in the closet"... !!!

One child in a closet, OK I can see it as a clever use of space providing they don't shut him in - but two?? I know I don't know anything about the family or their circumstances, but I wonder if this is perhaps the time to suck it up and move to a 2 bedroom place.

Orange peel also works.

Our family favourite is a hot turkey sandwich - thick, toasted brown bread with a filling of well-seasoned turkey meat, and hot leftover gravy poured over the whole thing. Artery-clogging bliss.

Can we get a post on the stages of whipping egg whites? Cream I'm fine with, but whites are a different story!

Three cheers for Nigel! I freakin' adore the man, as does my entire family. His prose is so easy to read and I find myself endlessly inspired by his recipes, especially his weekly column in the Observer (non-UK residents can read it on the Guardian's websit.)

I saw the first episode of the new show last week and it was good. Lots of pottering around in his amazing garden.

Yikes, we got into serious trouble at my university if we tried to take food out of the hall! Fruit was about the only thing that was allowed, along with the aforementioned ice cream cones. It's all about being very, VERY discreet...

@EmmaC, I've never heard of your way round before - I actually thought you had made a typo! So much for these 'definitive' lists of summer desserts, huh? :)