Slightly used Wife

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  1. Phil A

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  2. Marley Farley

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    :dh: Good grief Zig..!! I couldn't get away with it, but to be honest wouldn't want to.. That is so sad to see..!! Like to keep busy me..... :wink: Gosh I would have thought that now your Mrs had the days to herself with you at work she would have been loving getting the house back & doing everything...... I am sure I would but then we are all different.....!!:dh:

    :yho: Daisees I thought Quentin a grand old queen, even if he didn't clean..!!:lollol:
     
  3. Axie-Ali

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    Well, I'm a righty that eats left handed! so what does that make me?.... confused probably
     
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    I usually play golf on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.(I'm not obsessive about it..much!) But not if it's raining before I set out, like it is today.

    This totally screws up my wife's week, in fact she'll forget what day it is half way through the week because me being home this morning will have upset her routine. So I'm hiding in this room working on stuff on my computer and playing my tenor sax (but not both at the same time!)

    Too wet to go in the garden. I'll probably take her to the Trafford Centre for lunch as a sort of apology for getting in her way by just "being here."
     
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    She has you well trained, Doghouse!
     
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    Too True!

    She'll be escorting me to the cash machine, it's her birthday this week!

    It's a "tradition" with the women in our family, they don't like presents as we've often lost the receipt (work that one out!)

    They much prefer "a bag o' cash!"
     
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    I think you should buy Mrs Ziggy some modern household equipment, like our laundry bin, I simply stuff all my dirty washing in and it appears cleaned and ironed a few days later in my wardrobe. Experimenting over several years I've found it doesn't work if you leave your pants on the bedroom floor, you have to get them in the bin. I can't find the user manual for it but Mrs JWK has kindly explained how it works to me several times, which involves shouting, waving her hands and hitting me, one day I'll understand.
     
  8. Phil A

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    Lol :hehe: Will try that type of white goods with her John.:redx:


    Just found a shop bought lettuce in the fridge.:dh: Why increase the overdraft to buy something we got growing outside :flag:
     
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    Ah the "magic laundry bin."

    When the kids were at home they only had to put their dirty clothes in their bin at the foot of their beds. The clothes were then washed, dried and ironed and placed in their rooms in neat piles at the end of their beds. All they had to was put them away in the appropriate wardrobes and drawers. On occasions when nagged to tidy their rooms, because they were feeling idle these clean clothes were swept back into the laundry bins.
    It didn't happen often because "sanctions were taken."
     
  10. Hec

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    She sounds like a woman after my own heart Ziggy - but I live alone so eventually I have to do things. I can do all the creative stuff - it's the boring prep and and cleaning /tidying that seems so pointless.

    Just eaten my 'ready meal out of it's plastic container tonight - that saves making any more washing up.

    Oh and YES! I am aquarian lol
     
  11. Phil A

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    Sanctions sound good DR, but its something you can do with the kids, wives tend to over react and access that special memory chip that has stored everything you've ever done wrong since 1977.

    Hec, if you had all the ingredients of your ready meal growing in the garden, would you still buy the ready meal & leave the plants to rot ? Not having a go, just trying to understand the reasoning behind it all:dh:
     
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    That depends on my mood and on the weather

    It comes quick and clean from the supermarket and I don't have to get wet and muddy - and if I'm in the supermarket anyway!!!!

    I have only been growing my own for a couple of years though and am less inclined to do that kind of thing now. I don't eat a lot of lettuce so don't grow it but bought one a few weeks ago as 'guests' were coming.

    Today I took it out the fridge to throw away as it didn't get eaten - but it hasn't gone off yet - so I put it back in the fridge. It's very unlikely that it will get eaten - just regularly inspected to see when it has gone off enough to throw away!

    "Reasoning???" What's that? :cnfs: :wink:
     
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    I'm not really in a position to criticise.

    My wife puts up with;
    My Japanese koi interest.
    My saxophones,
    My leccy piano,
    My golf,
    My jukeboxes,
    (she doesn't yet know I've been looking at old fashioned pinball machines, the ones that use the big ball bearings, with the flippers and where sparks fly out and there's a loud noise when the balls hit the cushions. One of those would really freak her out!)

    I've not a lot I can complain about her, other that in the car she thinks she's a tour guide and insists on keeping up a running commentary and pointing out all the local features, saying; "Look at that!" and then telling me I'm not watching where I'm driving! When I complain she says it's the only time she gets to see and talk to me. They're never satisfied are they?

    Mind you I dread hearing the words "What I thought was" as I know it'll involve me in some considerable expense.

    We don't grow any veg, though I might put a few tomatoes on the shelf near the window in the "rabbit shed."

    In our house, potatoes come from M&S and the rest of the fruit and veg from Waitrose.

    I don't think I'd have time to grow veg.

    A golfing friend often drives into the club car park with his surplus crops from his allotment in his boot to give away. "We usually run and hide" when we see him arrive.
     
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    Doghouse, maybe that is why I am full of faults that are so bad that the 'husband' is divorcing me. :yho::yho::yho:
     
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    I am a left hander who writes right handed because I was made to all those years ago.
    I can still write left handed though.

    I think that must make me totally confused and full of faults of the worst kind.:lollol::yez: but you know what, I love all my faults.
     
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