They can't sack me because I'm pregnant, but they can look at my belly and mark my answers down, IYSWIM - so if I answered the question the same as the person before, they don't record my answer, they just mark her a 5 and me a 2 for the same thing, that way it looks like I stuffed up the interview or aren't that good at my job. Of course, if one person in the panel is not biased I can show that people had widely differing scores and it was probably due to pregnancy, especially as I'll get a good reference from my boss (but they're not using references... how stupid!). I've never actually had an appraisal; they tend to assume that if I'm up to date and no-one has complained about me then I'm doing my job well.

I'm thinking I'll need something over my waist to cover the bump - I don't want to go in with flesh bared to the world! So may wear a black dress over my trousers (the joys of stopping growing at 14-15 and doing a gothy phase as a teen!) and my mint green pashmina.

As for Yorkshire, that's at least another 3 years off. It's so hard to find the jobs up there! I'm kind of happy about that as I'd prefer to be in my own home than in someone else's, and I don't have to worry about putting stuff into storage.