nights, and anyone else] The HTML isn't that tricky, and as I discovered on my first move you can generally just steal other peoples' tables and the like and repaint them. Then there's that excellent basic guide people regularly post links to which I can't remember the address of...

It is a site created by our own Dr Q+ (who seems to have disappeared) and can be found here.

[nights] Well I hope so, seeing as he's my boyfriend now. Hurrah!

There's a sticker on my door proclaiming "Blood donors love life" which somehow feels like the opposite of a grocer's apo'strophe.

[rab] careful, you're drifting into grammar pedant territory, and I know enough of them by fortune of being a languages student.

[ZK] Oh I am pleased. Good for you!

[ZK] I think I might have one too... how many dates does it take to qualify?

[pen] Based on negligible experience, I think "boyfriend" is what you call it when:

• ...you stop counting dates.
• ...the next date is "when", not "if".
• ...you start counting days/weeks/months since the first date.
• ...you stop calling it "dating" and start calling it "seeing".

The state of boy/girlfriendshipness must be formally announced, ideally through a public advertisment in The Times, but these days more commonly on the official web-based boards set up for this purpose.

I always understood the situation to become officially acknowledged when, and only when, you were finally caught out behind the bike shed. Or adult equivalent, I suppose, in this case.