If you really don't need your car seat any more that'd be fab -- thank you so much! I definitely owe you lots of nice dinners or similar -- you've been incredibly kind & generous & I hope I can repay you in some way.

Can we arrange a car-seat-and-furniture handover some time soonish (I don't want to sound demanding when you're being so lovely, but I am starting to get twitchy about Having Things To Hand)? Also, if you're interested in taking our surplus bookcases off our hands (or getting the name of our shelving chap -- though you may want to wait & see how well he does ours ;-) then let me know & I'll give you the measurements.

Point taken about the car seat -- it's just depressing to find that society really is set up so that everybody has to have a car (or at least behave as if they have a car). :-/ And part of me thinks "well if they're going to put me in the hospital against my will then they can damn well supply the means to get me & baby home again safely". That's just the grumpy badger talking, though -- I don't want to fight with them. But I do want to stay in my sett if I can! :-}