I've managed to read Clari and your posts Dove. I've pinned it down I think it was licorice . Hubby bought a couple of packets of chocolate covered licorice sticks yesterday and we pigged out on it. Haven't eaten it for years. I'm very annoyed that I have become complacent over the last few years since I haven't slipped up, but I certainly won't forget in a hurry this time. Very painful and not happy using wrists.
In bed now and going to sleep, hopefully If the panadol work.
That's hard luck, Pat. Hope it works through the system quickly and you feel better very soon.
Lyn, I for one am not going to be beating you with a stick... I think you've summed it up pretty well; men in general do think in a different way from women. And men of my husband's era (he's 70) do sometimes feel they don't know where they stand any more, because the "rules" have changed since they were brought up. But my dad (born in 1920) broke the mould by being a "new man" in the 1940s, helping my mum with the chores right from the start, without needing to be asked. I didn't realise until I got married that he was exceptional...
Will the burst eardrum heal on its own, Clari, or are you having antibiotics? Glad its been looked at, anyway.
Raspberries need picking...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Not sexist PD. Just egalitarian. In a world where men and women both work long hours to pay for and maintain a home and family there is absolutely no excuse for one partner, usually the woman but not always, carrying an unequal domestic load as well. Since you're not working Punk, why are there any domestic tasks for your wife to do except maybe sorting out the washing as men don't do colours very well - in my experience. OH does now that he's been trained and we have 3 laundry bins to make it easier for him.
Clari - yes - a visible list of all domestic chores is good to tick off each week. Try suggesting that you'll dust if he'll vac and then you'll have time to go and sit and share a beer/coffee/dinner and relax in peace together? Your OH needs to understand that you too have need of downtime and him time.
Hope the ear clears up soon. Not good. You too Pat.
Dove - Bonzo is a Lab. Suspicious of everyone but does eventually decide that most visitors are OK after all, especially the ones that tell him not to be so stupid when he's barking.
FG - glad you got your hill done. Liri - congrats on the concerts. I love choral singing unless they go very modern and atonal. LP - enjoy your new gd. Hope they like the pie. Hugs for Joyce and NB.
We have been to the beach - Possum's first surfing lesson. She enjoyed herself but will go by herself tomorrow as it's a 9am start. Anyway, lovely long beach with one stretch marked off for kite and sand surfers, another for swimmers and paddlers with lifeguards and another unsupervised for surfers and surf school. One café in the swimming part doing a brisk trade in salads and burgers and ices. Lovely atmosphere. Hot sand. By the time she'd finished it was painfully hot. Good beach for walking the dogs once the season is over and lovely clear views across to the Ile de Ré.
Cooling off now before a lovely fishy dinner.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
So ....to my new found friends .....it takes a while for a man to understand things ....as I now have ....it has finally sunk in what the potting shed is all about , I should have read the manual ......I just though that's where we men hung out , I hide my vodka there.....so I will , regretfully , say goodbye to this thread and move to the gardening stuff in future
Dove....all I am saying is that I don't feel that I can contribute to the great conversations you friends are having on this thread ....I will of course keep posting on all the other 'garden' related threads ......unless you want to hear about the foibles of a misguided man
Dachalover .......... just pop in and say hello from time to time .... that's all it's about .... no one expects ongoing contributions .... we have things to do, lives to live .... we just pop in and out ... some of us pop in throughout the day, some just once a week or even less .... my daughter Wonky has a new job and carpal tunnel syndrome so at the moment is restring her wrists and hardly posts at all ... unless she has something she wants to say .............. so please keep on popping in .......... and the foibles of a misguided man sound intriguing
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I've managed to read Clari and your posts Dove. I've pinned it down I think it was licorice . Hubby bought a couple of packets of chocolate covered licorice sticks yesterday and we pigged out on it. Haven't eaten it for years. I'm very annoyed that I have become complacent over the last few years since I haven't slipped up, but I certainly won't forget in a hurry this time. Very painful and not happy using wrists.
In bed now and going to sleep, hopefully If the panadol work.
That's hard luck, Pat. Hope it works through the system quickly and you feel better very soon.
Lyn, I for one am not going to be beating you with a stick... I think you've summed it up pretty well; men in general do think in a different way from women. And men of my husband's era (he's 70) do sometimes feel they don't know where they stand any more, because the "rules" have changed since they were brought up. But my dad (born in 1920) broke the mould by being a "new man" in the 1940s, helping my mum with the chores right from the start, without needing to be asked. I didn't realise until I got married that he was exceptional...
Will the burst eardrum heal on its own, Clari, or are you having antibiotics? Glad its been looked at, anyway.
Raspberries need picking...
Not sexist PD. Just egalitarian. In a world where men and women both work long hours to pay for and maintain a home and family there is absolutely no excuse for one partner, usually the woman but not always, carrying an unequal domestic load as well. Since you're not working Punk, why are there any domestic tasks for your wife to do except maybe sorting out the washing as men don't do colours very well - in my experience. OH does now that he's been trained and we have 3 laundry bins to make it easier for him.
Clari - yes - a visible list of all domestic chores is good to tick off each week. Try suggesting that you'll dust if he'll vac and then you'll have time to go and sit and share a beer/coffee/dinner and relax in peace together? Your OH needs to understand that you too have need of downtime and him time.
Hope the ear clears up soon. Not good. You too Pat.
Dove - Bonzo is a Lab. Suspicious of everyone but does eventually decide that most visitors are OK after all, especially the ones that tell him not to be so stupid when he's barking.
FG - glad you got your hill done. Liri - congrats on the concerts. I love choral singing unless they go very modern and atonal. LP - enjoy your new gd. Hope they like the pie. Hugs for Joyce and NB.
We have been to the beach - Possum's first surfing lesson. She enjoyed herself but will go by herself tomorrow as it's a 9am start. Anyway, lovely long beach with one stretch marked off for kite and sand surfers, another for swimmers and paddlers with lifeguards and another unsupervised for surfers and surf school. One café in the swimming part doing a brisk trade in salads and burgers and ices. Lovely atmosphere. Hot sand. By the time she'd finished it was painfully hot. Good beach for walking the dogs once the season is over and lovely clear views across to the Ile de Ré.
Cooling off now before a lovely fishy dinner.
As I said I am not claiming perfection or fairness, merely being honest about what happens in our house.
I could clearly do better / more, but it works for us.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
So ....to my new found friends .....it takes a while for a man to understand things ....as I now have ....it has finally sunk in what the potting shed is all about , I should have read the manual ......I just though that's where we men hung out , I hide my vodka there
.....so I will , regretfully , say goodbye to this thread and move to the gardening stuff in future
Dachalover ...
I don't understand ..................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove....all I am saying is that I don't feel that I can contribute to the great conversations you friends are having on this thread ....I will of course keep posting on all the other 'garden' related threads ......unless you want to hear about the foibles of a misguided man
Dachalover .......... just pop in and say hello from time to time .... that's all it's about .... no one expects ongoing contributions .... we have things to do, lives to live .... we just pop in and out ... some of us pop in throughout the day, some just once a week or even less .... my daughter Wonky has a new job and carpal tunnel syndrome so at the moment is restring her wrists and hardly posts at all ... unless she has something she wants to say .............. so please keep on popping in .......... and the foibles of a misguided man sound intriguing
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
dachalover, the topic of the day changes depending on what is posted.
I am sure most of us would love to hear more about your dacha lifestyle. Tell us about it.
It might give us females some insight DL.