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MCTID:
My Missus is a wonderful person....and I do love her to bits.....honest. But she has a completely different way of doing things than I do. If I wallpaper and paint a room, I'll clear EVERYTHING out first and cover the carpets with substantial dust sheets etc (get the picture), removing or masking stuff up which might get covered in paint or paste, but she will just shift the furniture around as she goes. DOH. If she grouts tiles, she will wear her distance glasses (instead of her reading glasses - i.e. for close up work) and the grout is just a bloody mess with great gobs of it in the gaps. DOH. She always comes up with the solution to any problem I'm having with the daftest possible answer and the one that - although I have given it some thought, I have also discarded it early in the process..........always earning (well getting - at any rate) my peculiar brand of evil sarcasm which I have finely honed over my 67 years - and is not to be taken lightly. Luckily she doesn't hold grudges and we always get on fine after the dust has settled.

I have tried over the years to 'train' her - as I was trained during my Apprenticeship, but it's really no use, as she is just wired differently. Her Sister is just the same and she always breaks stuff trying to install or build it - usually because she either doesn't have the right tools or doesn't know how to use the right tool.  She is always complimentary when I fit something for her.....but I always say that it's easier for me because I was trained how to do it and shown how to do it by good Tradesmen.

I don't know what the answer is (I'd be a millionaire if I did) but I have found that if she stays out of my way when I'm working....and doesn't offer her brand of barmy advice, we can get along fine and the jobs she wants doing eventually get done. She asked me yesterday 'When am I going to stop buying bike parts' ........having just received yet another old Triumph Engine in a bloody big crate ! I just smiled and she said nothing, so maybe she's getting the message after 25 years.

Having said all that, she's dead funny, a bloody great cook and a great judge of character and I love her to bits.........and I wouldn't swap her for all the tea in China.

Nurse Julie:
Ahhh, that's really sweet. Yes, I am learning that saying nothing and staying out of the way is usually the best policy. As for getting in a mess, you ought to see the mess I make when I'm plastering a room !!! :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

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