Just let me explode..........

Wish I had known about them earlier. To see a Geordie in a tutu is such a laugh, most men up here would run a million miles rather than be seen like this.

Supposedly they've been appearing at The Fringe for years. Wish I'd seen them there. Remind me of early Harry Enfield. The ventriloquist dummie one I find strangely fascinating albeit a tad creepy. Love the tooth fairy and Santa.

I love the sketch where the nuns stamp sinner on the forehead. The chap on the bus with the ipod especially, oh how I long to do that sometimes

I am with you tiggy, anno and maniac. I enjoy these stories and love a good laugh, yours really set me off absent.

harrigran; thank goodness..I thought I was the only person in the country watching it. It's the funniest thing I've seen for years. It makes me cry with laughter.

Tegan I love that show

Me too tiggy and anno a lot to be said for living alone when I hear the exasperated tales from married friends.

Does anyone watch that sketch in The Ginger, The Geordie and The Geek where they try to understand women?

absent

tiggy me too.

I do think we should try role reversal every so often in an unequal marriage. I did absolutely everything beforeDH retired. Now he does all the finances ,car related rubbish,and I make a point of not being around when window cleaners and tradesmen need paying so he now is appalled to know that someone has to make sure a cheque is written or money is in the house. I haven't got as far as the utility room yet but he hasn't been retired that long and we do bicker over the groceries. The washing machine next year.

Speaking as a divorced singleton all your stories only go to remind me why I don't miss him and why I love being on my own ! I can do just as I like and any mistakes I make are my own (though being a woman I don't make many !!)

A s a widow. I have learnt to mainly do on my own! Gary (the Gardner) is great with helping me with things like meter reading (physically impossible for me) and doing any heavy lifting etc. he's also good at putting things like electricity bills into comprehensible English for me!
I'm trying to do things on my own as much as I can but sometimes it does get on top of one!
On the whole though I manage!

What are you doing with my husband Mishap ? I never use the computer unless he is here, because I never know what he will have done to it now!!! Now and again he suggests that I should go to computer lessons, but I know there's no point - he would just contradict everything I was taught and I'd end up more confused than ever.

thatbags indeed Apple, Apple, Apple. Take it out of the box and switch it on. Hurrah. to you mishap. You deserve to explode from time to time and gransnet is just the place for it.

Sorry ladies I have just come in from childminding and have only read the OP so if my response is totally out of place now I do apologise. You could have been writing about my OH Mishap I dread having any new technology for that very reason.

No I don't feel bad. The late MrG used to drive me nuts on occasion too. Just saying.....

Pernstemmon I have one of those. Following the six o'clock news – which we both watch – he will tell me what has been happening in the world. He, who has never had any children, tells me how to "deal with" my grandchildren when they are misbehaving. However, worst of all, he will start giving me instructions about how to cook. I have spent nearly 40 years writing cookbooks and he had never cooked anything until he met me. We have now had potatogate when I threw the mashed potato in the bin, shepherds pie gate when I threw the shepherds pie at him, soupgate when I threw the soup down the sink and complete dinnergate when I threw his dinner out the window.

I have to solve my own problems, though ex-OH would have been no practical use. If I can't do something, I have to get someone in to do it - usually a man!

Look I would miss him loads if he was not here,but he can still drive me nuts!

Would be just as difficult for widows if we eulogised our DHs! none of us are posting here to make others feel bad so sorry if that is what had happened.

Sorry Gally and all other widows - a bit tactless to moan on when we still have them , but I c ould have wept yesterday when I came back from a nice day out with DD's MIL- bit of shopping, bit of lunch, cup of tea and a bun, you get the idea.
When I got home about 5.30 DH had not even given the dog her lunch but had treated himself to a fry-up after my cleaner had been so I had to clean the top of the cooker yet again.

Hmm..my DH does everything (except cooking... though he claims he can!)

Am I grateful? No I am not because he really is not that brilliant at any of it!

He likes everything done on his timescale so if I am having a cuppa, reading or still in the shower and he feels there is washing /cleaning to be done he does it. Everything gets bunged in the machine and washed at any random temperature, hung up in ways that require severe ironing later. I can't recall how many items of clothing have been spoiled. I now do not put things in the wash basket if I think it needs special care! He puts the washing away any old how into my drawers..does not even match the colours.. and stuffs things into cupboards to make everywhere look tidy..just don't tryto get stuff out of a cupboard. Gosh I am a miserable old

Oh well - at least you have OH's to complain about! I have to wait for DD3 to sort out all my little technical problems; she was last here in July and hopefully will be here again for 2 days in November. I am becoming quite good at winging it and also learning how to read complicated directions, although not quite competent enough to follow them.....

Oh forgot to add navigation as something only a man is capable of. Today I nearly lost it when I said "Do I go left here?" getting the answer "Yes" and was then told to go straight on as well/instead.

I am constantly amazed by the assumption that some tasks are "masculine"and some feminine" - and have to admit I go along with it. mostly because I haven't got the energy to resist.
Masculine tasks:
computer,TV, DVD player, anything to do with finance, the telephone, major decisions re furniture, decorating, garden decisions, decisions about gadgets or tools for the house (despite the fact he is totally clueless in all matters practical, insurance, legal things.
Female tasks:
cooking, shopping choosing meals, laundry, mending, finding his socks/pants/shirts, domestic machinery, anything to do with the DC and the DGC, feeding the dog, knowing where pots, pans serving dishes etc go - in fact anything to do with the kitchen - dates of anniversaries, birthdays, addresses of friends (cards for the use of)
Of course for matters of IT one needs a 7 year-old DGS or a practical SIL to whom he might defer.