I’m very lucky … but then I learned from my earlier mistake and second time around I picked one who’d been well trained by his mother and two older sisters, none of whom mollycoddled him. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm more likely to trip over a dog whilst cooking as they like to "help" in case I drop anything. OH does all our financials too @Pansyface and I do the shopping, cooking, decorating. We share cleaning but I do have to remind him about skirting boards and moving furniture when I want a proper clean done and he never washes the floor - our entire ground floor is tiled so that can take a while.
On the other hand, I refuse to use his bloody Dyson so he gets most of the vacuum cleaning and he does turn the compost bins and, since I can no longer manage walkies, he does the daily excursion with the dogs.
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)."
Yes, I find that cats make excellent trip hazards. They’re never where you left them.
My experience of living with a visually impaired person and cats is that cats actually get out of the way of a person who will step on them. They can be trained. Never mind not doing laundry left on the floor, I don't do his laundry. I do mine, I do the household stuff like bed linen and towels and dog blankets (because he'd never get round to it and I don't want to sleep in a bed with linen that hasn't been washed for a month). I don't do his. I used to do all the bill paying, but our finances work differently now, so I still do most of the stuff with our joint account but much of the bill paying is now his responsibility as he does the business accounts. Over the course of our relationship (32 years), I've probably earned more, I've certainly worked more hours and more consistently. But we are a team. I do the gardening, he built the house. Neither of us would have what we do together had we each been alone. It's not perfect but it is a working arrangement that seems to mostly succeed. Bar the odd tantrum when I fall over something he left on the floor. Again. Growing up with a visually impaired person, I learned to always put things back where I found them or expect them to be broken. Children can also be trained. Adults, not so much
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I’m very lucky … but then I learned from my earlier mistake and second time around I picked one who’d been well trained by his mother and two older sisters, none of whom mollycoddled him. 😊
Nevertheless even he doesn’t think to get a new loo roll out of the cupboard before the previous one has totally expired and the situation is dire … why do some folk leave a naked loo roll tube for the next person rather than replace it … I know he’s not the only one …some folk must be born with the loo roll replacement gene and some are born without it. Is it a dominant or recessive gene I wonder … as we have no children together I do not have an answer … anyone ???
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I dunno Dove. It's easier to judge a loo roll when living alone I reckon. I usually manage to judge it to the last sheet and then get another one out. I'm not a control freak you understand.
I’m very lucky … but then I learned from my earlier mistake and second time around I picked one who’d been well trained by his mother and two older sisters, none of whom mollycoddled him. 😊
Nevertheless even he doesn’t think to get a new loo roll out of the cupboard before the previous one has totally expired and the situation is dire … why do some folk leave a naked loo roll tube for the next person rather than replace it … I know he’s not the only one …some folk must be born with the loo roll replacement gene and some are born without it. Is it a dominant or recessive gene I wonder … as we have no children together I do not have an answer … anyone ???
Does the same thing count for tea towels? We don't share a bathroom thankfully but it drives me crazy when the tea towel is put in the washing towel and not replaced. Luckily we have a relationship like Jack Sprat and his wife; It seems that I like to do all the things she hates and vice versa. It's not perfect but it works pretty well.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
On the other hand, I refuse to use his bloody Dyson so he gets most of the vacuum cleaning and he does turn the compost bins and, since I can no longer manage walkies, he does the daily excursion with the dogs.
Never mind not doing laundry left on the floor, I don't do his laundry. I do mine, I do the household stuff like bed linen and towels and dog blankets (because he'd never get round to it and I don't want to sleep in a bed with linen that hasn't been washed for a month). I don't do his.
I used to do all the bill paying, but our finances work differently now, so I still do most of the stuff with our joint account but much of the bill paying is now his responsibility as he does the business accounts.
Over the course of our relationship (32 years), I've probably earned more, I've certainly worked more hours and more consistently. But we are a team. I do the gardening, he built the house. Neither of us would have what we do together had we each been alone.
It's not perfect but it is a working arrangement that seems to mostly succeed. Bar the odd tantrum when I fall over something he left on the floor. Again.
Growing up with a visually impaired person, I learned to always put things back where I found them or expect them to be broken. Children can also be trained. Adults, not so much
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.