Girls, I have to stop taking your advice! Asking DH to wash up after I'd made him dinner and lunch (yup, dirty pots from the previous night) and put away his clean, dry, neatly folded clothes is, apparently, me being a b*tch. OK, he did it a couple of hours after it was clear I wasn't going to, but still.

I'd given the house a complete clean (including shifting furniture), done the left-over washing up from Friday and Saturday lunchtime, baked a chocolate cake and washed up from that, washed a lot of his clothes and cleaned all his mess from the bathroom floor, so I figure that even if he does do the bi-annual trim of a couple of the bushes outside our back door on Saturday, on the Sunday he can still wash up!

I'm actually going to be at a birth centre for a few days post-birth so I don't have to do much; I'd rather be at home but at least I know I'll get my meals given to me and I don't have to clean up if I'm at the birth centre... just don't want to see what I come home to after a few days away. You should have seen the place when I came back from Austria a couple of months back - so much dust and dirt around the place it made me feel ill!