Thanks girls, it's good to know I'm not being silly! I told my DH about this last night and he went ballistic and said if anyone made me do this I was to get them to ring him for an earful. It's quite sweet that he thinks now I'm pg I'm so fragile I can't even shout at someone for myself!

The other thing with the boxes is that they have no handles, just those tiny little dippy holder things at the sides so you end up carrying the boxes on your fingertips, not with your whole arm. And while I know I can carry a small 5kg load on my little finger without bothering my muscles (yay for practical physiology classes showing I'm tougher than the boys!), the boxes are a good 15kg when full or 8-10kg when half-full and there's no easy way of lifting them.

Thanks for putting me onto that leaflet, Kar - basically what they've done is really, really wrong and it's not just a pregnancy-wrong thing either. I've given the leaflet to the office manager and she's having a look through it. I'll let you know if I hear back anything specific though, just so anyone else knows what's covered in the UK if they need it. Or you can advise me if I need to sue or something.