Who cares if the Dutchess of Cambridge is having a girl.

I don't eat just before I go to bed gillybob. I am considering having another go at fiction, having written a couple of novels in the past that eventually found their way into the recycling. Definitely could do better.

Gawd absent obviously very vivid.

Blimey Absent what do you eat before you go to bed? Or is it just the result of a very over stretched imagination? Perhaps you should write fiction too.

I was also dreaming about the birth of a republic. I have very odd dreams. Another of last night's, which reflects a personal anxiety, was about a cattery with a large tabby attempting to prise apart prison-style bars, and a small tortoiseshell being given a bath and then zipped up in a towelling bag with her head sticking out while I fed her blackcurrant juice from a dropper. So you see dreaming about a massive sinkhole beneath the blue drawing room at Buck House wasn't that peculiar.

You say it so well ,Gillybob.Who would have thought that in the twenty first century we would still have a Royal family.There is something radically wrong with a society where some folk have to buy their clothes from jumble sales and charity shops and someone else is actually praised for wearing a £200+ dress more than once.The trouble is that the celebrity culture is far too strong in this country.

Absent you are really dreaming about sink holes? Really?

gillybob Absolutely agree.

Totally agree with you bluebell I makes me so cross. When I look at the royals all is see is extremely privileged people. The press make them out to be some kind of demi-gods whom we should all worship and adore. Why? and for what?

I look around me and I see genuine hardship with families struggling to survive whether it be on low wages or benefits. I see poor schools, hospitals etc. The royals smack of greed and overindulgence that most people could only dream of.

The queen admitted to her private hospital overnight with a tummy bug. Meanwhile in an A & E some poor old soul is lying in a corridor for 5 hours waiting to be accessed.

I don't care whether they have a boy a girl, twins, triplets or whatever but one things for certain like all of the rest they will live a charmed and privileged life with the best of everything laid out on a plate.

Last night I dreamed that a massive sink hole, rather like that one in Florida that was recently in the news, opened up beneath Buckingham Palace when the royal sprog was being christened and swallowed the entire royal family. I would point out that I am not responsible for my subconscious but I did wake up smiling.

Don't worry about it, bluebell, there are plenty of anti-royals on here. They just can't resist letting everyone else know about it...

Have now gone into hiding

Oh gillybob - it is assumed we care deeply- it will be all over the front pages, including the Guardian, Dave, Nick, Ed etc will congratulate them on our behalf 'and I speak for the whole nation in their unalloyed joy at this amazing achievement, our day has been brightened beyond belief. The worries of benefit cuts, bedroom taxes, Syria, the West Bank( insert as appropriate) put properly into perspective by this unparalleled event blah blah blah - if only I knew when it would happen do I could escape as I did for the wedding and the jubilee.....

Well, I am pleased for her in a general sort of way, but I don't need an hour by hour commentary.

Seconded Gillybob. Well said!

Who even cares that she is having a baby at all.

I suppose it is of passing interest to some but as others have said, as long as mother and baby and healthy thats all that counts

I hope they have a healthy baby whatever the sex, other than that I'm not really interested. As said before it will either be a girl or a boy and I don't see what difference it makes.

I meant - I don't give a flying fox.

Answer to OP - no, it doesn't!

Sorry, jingle...Just 'avin a larff

I had two girls, one has two daughters and one has two sons!

As gender of the baby is all to do with sperm rather than ova & as women carry the babies, boys or girls I am not sure if there is any logic in trying to guess ..its 50:50!

My SiL is eldest of 4 girls..her parents wanted a son... the girls between them produced 7 sons first & then 2 girls. All probability!

No! I didn't mean that?

Frank seemed to be making a point of the fact that girls (or boys I guess) can run in families. I was just saying.............. oh never mind.

Frank? Have William and Harry got a brother?

What? You mean she's not really pregnant, jingle?

Her mum had a son Frank.