'supporting each other through really tough times'

Molly41

I once changed the flat tyre on my very old volvo whilst six months pregnant. I was so damn furious at the time as I had found out that my ex had been having an affair. Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned...... I think I imagined the wheel nuts were his you know what nuts.......

7_week_wonder

I got my first flat tyre in the summer. I phoned both my OH and his best pal (who used to be a Rolls Royce car mechanic). The pal, entirely reasonably, suggested that I should practice changing the tyre under their supervision. This would have been fine was it not for the fact that 1) I had been for a run with my running group and so was clad in fairly minimal lycra, and 2) we were just on the edge of our local red light district. They got some very funny looks as they leaned against the fence watching me attempting to jump up and down on the wrench thing to loosen the nuts!!

VJsmum

katieowl wrote: »

Yeah well you get what you pay for don't you...I bet he could pull your brains out down your nose, or line your garden obelisks up with Orion!!!

I swap cake for Goats cheese - on a weekly basis!

Kate

LOL.

I know how to change a tyre but can't lift the spare out of the boot.:o Luckily our main car has a "run flat" thingy going on. It tells us there's a flat but manages to keep going somehow. I think my OH could change one, but he isn't terribly "handy". Given that I have a construction - related degree, worked for years in the industry and now teach it, my OH still can't believe that i know anything about construction :mad:, or, particularly that I know more than he does - or his mate! Even my bestie was astounded that I changed the ballcock. You have to laugh.....


Don't you?

Well, I now have a clean kitchen. I wish i could keep it like this but the carp does seem to build up.

Softstuff

nuttyp wrote: »

And i have work, so thats 8 hours of trying to sit comfatably.

Get yourself some moist toilet tissue. When things are "delicate" round there it makes the world of difference.

When I married my husband I underestimated him. I thought given his job was desk bound he'd be less practical and able to do things. Turns out I was wrong, he might not instantly know how, but with a little reading up or help from me he's careful, meticulous and very good at whatever he chooses to try. It's a damned miracle.

My ex-husband, by contrast, was a complete numpty. When we first moved into a flat, he suggested it would look better if we removed a wall..... a main supporting wall.

katieowl_2

SIGH....MY OH is incredibly useful. Really stunningly capable and able to turn his hand to almost everything...Guilding, Plumbing, Painting, ANYTHING with wood, tiling, roofing, the odd car repair...but can I get him to do anything for me these days? Nope, not an ice cubes in Hades. I've been waiting for my bathroom to be finished for three years....SIGH.

Kate

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He who knows is horribly practical, the problem is he will try to explain it all to me, I only need to know he knows how and can do it, NOT how it works!!!!!!!

katieowl_2

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

He who knows is horribly practical, the problem is he will try to explain it all to me, I only need to know he knows how and can do it, NOT how it works!!!!!!!

Oh I know that one too....

Kate

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Me, I'm just ungrateful. but the least technical person on the planet!!!!!

stiltwalker

Ok - so DH is officially 'let off' - he sucessfully managed to jack up the car and remove all but the locking nut which was not moving for love nor money, when the rescue guy arrived he couldn't get it off either and confirmed that last time we've had the tyres changed the garage has stripped the nut (prob without even realising as it was when they put it back on with one of those gun thingies). He managed to inflate the tyre enough to get him home and car is now sitting outside local garage and we'll apparently need them to chisel off the locking nut before the tyre can be changed!!!

On a more festive note the new lights are lovely and the tree is now decorated and is sitting twinkling merrily in the corner.

missrlr

DH can and does EVERYTHING and is really good at everything UNLESS it involves wood. Then it all goes a bit wrong really. Plastering is O.k but not perfect
He has tiled all bits of house, rewired, re plumbed,
We can rebuild engines, gearboxes, change tyres and all sorts. DH takes wheels on and off all the time due to having different tyres for different purposes on the bonkers car.
But hang a door, ahem get DF or DFIL to do this ...

Fracking ... I don't think there enough information (not meeeja hype but actual facts and figures) to make a decision on. I don't trust the companies, or FOE or the 'experts' that have been publicised so far on the news. So I will be asking some contacts in the science workd with no axe to grind on this one and doing some reading up on it before I comment further