I speared my finger on a piece of bamboo cane ... OH stopped what he was doing, performed surgery, cleaned and dressed it then planted my potatoes, cleaned the tools and put everything away. Someone said to me yesterday that ‘he really is a lovely man’ and I have to agree with her. 💕 😊
Are you sure it wasn't one of Hosta's roofers who came round to tend your injuries?
My husband is as good as a wife. He shops, cooks, cleans, puts the bins out and collects the prescriptions, leaving me free to garden, cut up firewood and break up concrete. All I do indoors is the laundry.
When I worked full time I often said I and my colleagues needed a wife. Then I had a "light bub" moment. I worked as many hours as OH in the same company and he spent as much time in the home as I did so he could share the chores. I cooked - he washed up. I washed - he ironed. I dusted - he vacced.
When I became a housewife after our move to Belgium I did most of the housework, cut the grass, did DIY but he kept ironing (useful activity done while watching sport on TV) and helped with any heavy lifting. Now we are retired he loads the dishwasher, cuts the grass, helps with cleaning (his bloody Dyson after all) and still does the heavy lifting and digging.
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)."
Mine uses the bloody Dyson, breaks my back pushing it. he is not at all domesticated in any way, he got his own lunch yesterday as he had to go out to do a job, half packet of cream crackers, still in the packet so no butter, a bag of crisps, a chocolate biscuit and a bottle of water.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
reason to be cheerful, the clocks go forward tonight. Bring on those lovely long light evenings.
I beg to disagree. In the West of France where I live we are actually West of the Greenwich meridian. Which means that for us summer time is 2 hours in advance of "real" time, i.e. solar time. Ridiculous.
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Thank goodness we have something to be cheerful about 🙄 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When I became a housewife after our move to Belgium I did most of the housework, cut the grass, did DIY but he kept ironing (useful activity done while watching sport on TV) and helped with any heavy lifting. Now we are retired he loads the dishwasher, cuts the grass, helps with cleaning (his bloody Dyson after all) and still does the heavy lifting and digging.
he is not at all domesticated in any way, he got his own lunch yesterday as he had to go out to do a job, half packet of cream crackers, still in the packet so no butter, a bag of crisps, a chocolate biscuit and a bottle of water.
First wisteria blossoms coming out. More than a week early compared to last year as they were still utterly bare on the 4th of April.
I also have a lovely useful OH!