Not at all @WonkyWomble. I know how that feels. It's a wonder you haven't punched someone by now. Perhaps that might have the desired effect in future. Or when asked 'what's for dinner?' your answer for the next week or two could be 'whatever you lot are making'Â
I do remember one Christmas, I'd done the dinner and it was all ready to serve [about 12 of us]Â and when I went to the lounge to tell them, they all went 'but we're watching this film and it's not finished yet....'
To quote our famous tv show, there could have been a murrrder that day.Â
This is how it feels [another of our well loved shows]Â
I quite understand @WonkyWomble! Maybe next time you could delegate jobs to certain people and tell them if they don't do them then they go without. If the washing up isn't done tell them they will have to eat off dirty plates next meal, or is that too mean?
I quite understand @WonkyWomble! Maybe next time you could delegate jobs to certain people and tell them if they don't do them then they go without. If the washing up isn't done tell them they will have to eat off dirty plates next meal, or is that too mean?
Maybe well in advance you could write out a list of the jobs that have to be done over Christmas ... and then OH can choose which ones he'd like to do and put his name next to them ... and then stick it on his studio door with Superglue!!!Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I can empathise with you @wonky, about 20 years ago when MIL was recently widowed we invited her and SIL and family for Christmas. They all 5 of them arrived before I got home from work on Christmas eve and left at the same time that I left to go back to work on 27th. SIL said as she walked out that it had been better than a 5 star hotel, of course it was, waited on hand and foot and no bill at the end! I have never invited them for Christmas again.Â
I suspect you are being a bit too subtle with your hints for help.
Try the following:-
Plan A - "So which one of you two is doing the washing up?" .. said sweetly as you're pouring yourself a glass of something nice and putting your feet up.
If that falls on deaf ears ..
Plan B - "I'll let you two argue amongst yourselves who is doing the washing up"
or...
Plan C - "Which of you two lazy bast**ds is doing the washing up?"
If all else fails find your inner Ballistic Bob.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders Â
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Broke another corkscrew last night, second one this year. Who would have thought cork is tougher than steel?
I can't remember the last time I used a corkscrew but I did have trouble getting the screw cap off my Malbec last night. I'm getting over the booster side effects now and had a proper Christmas midnight feast of wine and cheese.Â
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
SIL said as she walked out that it had been better than a 5 star hotel, of course it was, waited on hand and foot and no bill at the end!
I have never invited them for Christmas again.Â
Drill a hole in the cork, just big enough for a straw. Cuts out the washing up.
I suspect you are being a bit too subtle with your hints for help.
Try the following:-
Plan A - "So which one of you two is doing the washing up?" .. said sweetly as you're pouring yourself a glass of something nice and putting your feet up.
If that falls on deaf ears ..
Plan B - "I'll let you two argue amongst yourselves who is doing the washing up"
or...
Plan C - "Which of you two lazy bast**ds is doing the washing up?"
If all else fails find your inner Ballistic Bob.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime