Genealogy Chat

Im amazed this thread has not disappeared yet! Just to add O.C. hubby def didnt marry me for my cooking or my legs (which are like young oaks) so I guess it was the mystery of finding out what Im good at - and he is still wondering.

You lot have all got it oh so wrong. Take one man Let him play cricket, rugby, golf (whatever) as much as he likes. Let him go to the pub/concert/meeting whenever they want. YOU get so much time to yourself to do all your painstaking research and..... In return ......... they are so grateful they offer to wash up/iron/cook when ever you 'don't feel like it'. Works all the time (and I mean ALL the time). Snowdrops

Hi All What a hoot - you've had me in stitches:-) LOL I must admit that I take the helpless female approach:-) I didn't iron OH shirt properly the day after we married (17 years ago) - haven't picked up an iron since. Managed to burn his breakfast 3 days running immediately after the honeymoon - no more cooking. Blew up the hoover - once - no more hoovering - just in case:-) and I'm not even allowed to mow the grass outside as I dont do straight lines - its a hover mower for gods sake!!! With two kids, I find if I buy all the latest dusting/cleaning gadgets, they will happily use them to clean for me for weeks:-) I also have an alarm on the front door which rings every time it is opened (need to feel safe in own home:-), so am able to have a suitable page on the puter showing by the time OH/ kids arrive upstairs:-) Bev X

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Roger I totally agree - its people shifting the dust about who cause the problems - leave it alone and you can hardly notice it. I turned OFF my pooter this aft and went for a Healthy Walk to the Coop, to get some emergency bread. On the way I was thinking about housework and really feel compelled to pass on my wisdom to any Young Things who are about to embark on Domestic Bliss. When I married, my Granny took me to one side and said darkly 'It doesnt pay to be too good at anything, when you are married' I hadnt a clue what she was talking about and enthusiastically embarked on cleaning, dusting, ironing, baking, boiling, kneading, folding, drying, preserving, chopping, mincing and stuffing. I did the garden, I made all our clothes and curtains too. So occupied by all this was I, that I failed to notice Sheeshee creeping up on my blind side and my husband rapidly departed with her, not mentioning a word about my home made pasta, my home made bread and my home made knicker blinds. Husband number two departed with Tickles (or was it Cuddles?) and I sat down for a long think. One - No man ever leaves the marital home for a woman who can COOK better than you. Two - Most men actually LIKED School Dinners, and even if they didnt, they certainly ate them. You do not need to strive therefore, for any higher standard than school dinners, circa 20/30/40 years ago. Fall on your knees and praise the lord if you have a War Baby as a hubby - anything, absolutely anything, even raw potato, tastes better than snoek. Three - Tickles and Sheeshee are now ensconced in palatial homes. A cleaner comes in three times a week. Doting Old Fool pays for that of course. Sheeshee does not have a cooker so DOF takes her out for meals. All she has to do in exchange for this is to make appreciative squeaks at his prowess with the lawnmower. I no longer care about all this, its all a long time ago - but I do occasionally wish I hadnt imposed this Domestic Slavery on myself. Maybe if I hadnt, I too would be living in the lap of luxury with some DOF, who loved me for my legs, not my home made bread. OC

But Heather your cut is one cert in every 4 .(think about it i'm still paying 25% on my gross earnings),and the benefit to all customers is increased hours on the pooter. We just need a snappy slogan and it's a surefire winner.

Glen, you will notice that I am doing my utmost to market the Handbook 'Making easy money from Anoraks' alongside my latest mega venture 'Housewifery for Anoraks' courses. I am being slightly thwarted in this by a possible takeover bid from Olde Crone. NOW, Glen, you may think you will be better off leaving my services - however should my new business venture fail for lack of a gimp, have you SEEN (look at last nights Pallots thread) just what your employment conditions will be under O.C. as your new M.D.? AND ................how many jobs are out there for ageing freelance gimps who have lost their turnips? Eh, think about it???

I'm certainly not corrupted by this hobby. Bankrupted and obsessed maybe. I don't mind people observing or even commenting on the dust in my lttle 'research' room... I just hate it when they start to write or doodle in it. Someone put the date 'Jan '05' just behind the 'puter screen and now there are two different levels of dust there. If we were meant to dust then the creator would have designed us with one of those extending poles with a miracle cloth on the end of it instead of one of our arms... but they didn't so we could type on the boards. Roger GC

Know what you mean about the 'Accounts' Heather, Son (recently self-employed Plumber, has passed his on to me again + Tax Return - I have been looking at them for about 2 weeks now (They are just behind the Computer screen in a big pile!!). Got to do them one day but 'just don't seem to have the time' Funny though, I seem to be able to find 8 - 10 hours a day on here????????????? Dea x

As a GASUMP (Gimps and Slaves Union Member Paid,i am fully entitled to subcontract my services in times of severe poverty. due to a severe drop in marketing methods the FTM and compost bin income reduction means my pay has gone down,and i feel highly compromised!

No, NO, NO, NO Nooooooooooo! I most certainly DO NOT have enough time to drive to Oz with Kate's grocery delivery. And that's FINAL!!! (see previous page) lol Merry

For a minute there Glen I thought that they had forgotton about you, was going to suggest Google search 'Emergency Locksmiths' :-)))))

AND have I given you permission to do that, Glen?

Me thinks the last post came out of nowhere!! This thread has corrupted me to the point where i am offering my services 'Tinsel clad cleaner,will work for certs'

Dea, Im certainly not going back to question her again. This time she may say its to do with her piles. Meanwhile, accounts STILL not done as my eldest son rang up to say he has 2 tickets for youngest son for Big Bro on Friday. I ring youngest son - cant go. So now Ive had to ring other people who have to sort out if they can get time off work and Im sitting here like a ********** lemon sorting it all out.

Now that does feel better. Can i have a longer chain though please,i can only reach back to about 1780 so far,and am feeling very stumped at the moment. Glen

Heather - That's a POOR excuse - How can gums be too sore for bananas?? My 'Daddy' was 'epileptic' and when he was young they pulled out all his teeth (It was supposed to be necessary??) - anyway, he used to be able to tear away at pork chops with his gums - even sore ones, I would think, could manage a banana!! Dea x

Well, perhaps I'll loosen your ankle manacle by one notch.

My moment of triumph has just occured. Other half asked what i was doing,'Job hunting' i replied,forgot to mention that i was hunting for Job Goulson and his parents!!!! Does this entitle me to any improvement in my worth? Glen

Blimey olde Crone, I forgot that I bought a smoothie maker a couple of months back at youngest sons demand. Its been used once and stuck in the cupboard. Oh yes, banana milkshakes - shall I go and collect the other bags back do you reckon?