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Hey folks. My wife is 15 weeks pregnant and still suffering quite severe 'morning' sickness, although it's not quite as bad as it was a couple of weeks ago. At it's worst she was averaging 4 vomiting sessions per day and felt awful all the time. She has been to the doctor several times and is on her 2nd type of pills, having also tried acupuncture, the weird wrist band things and herbal remedies (no, not dope), although she stopped short of homeopathy. Does anyone have any ideas to make her life a little less painful, or anyone here (or your partner) been in a similar situation? Cheers

3-4 inches in my back garden in Dunblane at the moment. But the snowfall is much lighter and the lying snow is starting to melt.

Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol 5/10 A real page turner - but not a very good one. Meh.

Don't forget being sponsored by RBS.

Flashforward - Robert Sawyer 7/10 I suppose if you have seen the TV programme you will know the plot (I haven't). Just as a physics experiment is performed, everyone on the planet loses conciousness for 2 minutes and experiences a vision of what appears to be 21 years in the future. The book basically deals with the consequences of knowing (or thinking you know) your future. What if you're not with your current partner? What if your career didn't turn out as you'd hoped? What if you're dead? It's a brilliant concept for book and it's surprisingly well researched. The writing is a bit clumsy at times and I got the feeling he made the best of a bad job for the ending, but overall it's well worth reading. There's also a major, obvious flaw in the plot that I won't spoil.

Giving both is useful, because it shows how good a player is at hitting treble 20 (ie first 9 - albeit not an exact science), as well as how well they are scoring overall.

Plenty of snow last night in Dunblane, but it's the warmest it's been for well over a week (about 3C), and there's been a fair bit of thawing already.

Did you go down the M9? I drove down the M9 at around that time and although there was a small amount of snow on the road, it really wasn't a problem so long as people were sensible - ie driving at 30-40 mph, leaving a big gap, no sudden movements. By the time I got to the Newbridge junction at about 9am there was no snow on the road anyway. My journey from Dunblane to Edinburgh took only 30 min longer than usual.

I'm 29 and I built one tonight. But I didn't name it. I think the limit for naming it is 12.

Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis 6/10 Another utterly bemusing novel from the pen of Bret Easton Ellis. A vacuous model leaves his party-centred life in New York to go to Europe, where he gets caught up in a terrorist cell. At times it's brutal, a times extremely sexual, always bizarre. Why is everywhere so cold? Why does everything smell of shit? Why do people keep thinking they've seen him somewhere when he wasn't there (or does he just not remember for some reason)? What is the deal with the film crew?

Without Murray, is Team GB going to go right through the bottom of the 2nd division as well?

If Serena Williams wants to be the no. 1 ranked player (although I don't see why it should be an end in itself), she ought to do better in the other tournaments. I'd argue that the slams should be worth less in the women's game, because they are only best of 3 sets - like all the other tournaments - whereas the for men the slams are that bit more demanding as they are best of 5.

Pish. As brilliant as Murray is when he's at his best, he's far too inconsistent. And he doesn't seem to raise his game for the slams like most of the other top players do. Much as it pains me to say it, it's very difficult to see him winning any slams in his career. He just can't play well enough for long enough.

Cheers. Murray ahead but not by as much as I'd thought. Fed's slam record just goes to show how much of a big match player he is.

Question for the stattos - how would the current rankings look if the slams were excluded? I'm guessing Murray would be miles ahead.

Cheers RW.

When's the KO?

Wins 6-1 6-3.

Because they are essentially saving the club. As much as the owners of the club over the past few years don't deserve the survival of the club (they wouldn't care anyway), there is a much greater number of people who have had no control over the mis-management of the club, but who don't deserve to have their club put out of business. As for honestly and morality - that is whole point behind the change in ownership. So effectively Massone's deadline has been extended for a year? Because if not, when next deadline comes and goes, the club could be liquidated.

I've listened to the press conference and I'm struggling to understand what has really changed, other than the offer to Massone being increased and Livi being allowed to compete in matches for the next few weeks. If Massone refuses to sell - and there's nothing suggest he will change his mind - Livingston will either be liquidated in a few weeks.... or the offer and deadline will be upped again. And as for Massone being insane or retarded - surely nothing could be further from the truth. He has got exactly what he wanted from the situation and most people think it's because he's an idiot rather an conniving shitebag! I've no idea what legal issues involved would be, but surely the best situation would be for Livingston FC Ltd to be liquidated, so Massone gets nothing, and the 2 investors to take over the league place with a new club in the 3rd division. This would of course be dependent on them placing a bond and business plan to ensure the completion of at least one season, and - crucially - the commitment to pay some non-trival (at least 20%) amount to the creditors of Livingston FC Ltd.

Not sure where you got those figures from, but the latest set of annual accounts of each club show Rangers have a total debt of £36m and Celtic's is £44m (total £80m). Both are insolvent because current assets don't cover current liabilities. http://www.celticfc.net/NetFrame_Client/1_...da-e92d3c112289 http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?...0916140000PF32D

A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away - Christopher Brookmyre 5/10 Ordinary Scottish bloke teams up with a black female cop to save thousands of people from a terrorist plot. I found it really hard to get into it - the first 50 pages or so were very disjointed - but eventually it settled down into an enjoyable enough story. But further into the book, it got more and more far-fetched. I know this was intentional (well, I think it was), but it didn't work for me. The Flood - Iain Rankin 7/10 The trials and tribulations of a woman and her son, outcasts in the close-knit (and incestuous - surprise, surprise!) Fife village they live in. Fairly slow-paced, but gave a real feeling of being in the village, and story was very engaging. Inconceivable - Ben Elton 6/10 I put this in just to rile the forum's book nazis. Decent read, but not one of his better efforts.

Fair enough, didn't realise it wouldn't help his points total even if he won.

Surely Murray would be better off playing in the Indianapolis event anyway, as he would be an excellent bet to win, but is likely to struggle on the Hamburg clay, especially if the better players are there. I assume there is more points on offer for winning the Indianapolis event than being a losing semi-finalist in Hamburg.

Humped Chela 6-2 6-2 6-1.