I tried, I really did......

and shower before in anyway aproaching her.

I'm sure Mr P wouldn't approach in any other way!

Marydoll !!
That first sentence - wide open to misinterpretation [grin}

I am very relaxed about Mr Barmey doing the shopping. He just asks do you need anything and I will say something like bread, veg, salad stuff and leave him to it. He often buys things he thinks we need but that ok we will need it someday, I hope. People shop and think in different ways.

Do you enjoy derailing threads Grandad? Does it feed your male ego knowing that you’re attracting attention?

Why don’t you start your own rather than boring everyone on threads you’re patently not interested in.

I’d have had your white cabbage!

As I explained to him the other day, this is precisely why I don’t want my dh doing the food hunt. He doesn’t cook, I do. (He clears up the kitchen.). As I said to him, if you can’t get what’s on the list, you won’t have a clue what I can make with what you can get.

As for the time he came back from a huge supermarket telling me they had no loo cleaner, no, none at all! No Harpic, no Toilet Duck, nothing - yes of course he did look properly! - I’d better not go into that!

Well Grandad, if you have ever read the Good Morning thread, you will have read about the many cock ups I have been responsible for. I'm always willing to share them with my virtual friends. ?

I admit there have been little opportunities for them recently, due to circumstances out with my control.

As for your friend with the heart condition, did you chastise her for allowing her husband to go shopping in these perilous times, when he should have also been self isolating?

Phoenix in regard to your post @18:50 today are you inferring that I or our friends are liars, or perhaps you are an expert in how ALL general practitioners operate.

Well Laughterlines, that may suit these with reverse Benny Hill humour. As I stated why do not those who mock their husbands shopping failures, tell us also of their own failures on such trips. ?

"Her GP phoned" Most of us have just had the letter, doubt if GP's have the time to actually telephone people, unless of course a call back to an enquiry.

Today 18:05Grandad1943
If you wish for us all to witness the full humour of these situations, why not you and others tell us about the times when you have "cocked up the shopping.

I see loads threads here on Gransnet where we women post about the daft things we have done in all sorts of situations! We often make fun of ourselves.

fatgran57, I will post on this forum in any style I wish and provided that does not transgress the site guidelines it shall continue. ?

Phoenix thanks for a good laugh, as usual.

Grandad1943 didn’t your granny tell you read instructions carefully. Phoenix told us in last line of her post.

“this post is meant to be a bit of lighthearted stuff!”

Oh dear Grandad1943 I think it is the overly serious way you write that makes your posts more like lectures than conversation.

You do sound as though you are in the boardroom rather that on a chatty happy forum. I think that all the posters on here take their health very seiously and are taking the best precautions they are able to depending on their own situations.

Please don't lecture.

Riverwalk, in regard to your post @17:57, we have lifelong friends in which one of them (the wife) has suffered from a heart condition for the last four years. A week ago her GP phoned to say that she should not leave the house for as long as this epidemic continues.

He then stated that her husband also should not go into any environment that would easily leave him open to contamination by the virus. However, should her husbandd have no alternative but to do the shopping, on return he should completely change his clothes and shower before in anyway aproaching her.

Such is the risk many now face and I was just relaying that to the opening poster in what I felt was helpful manner.

Of course, being a male on this forum I realised how such a gesture would be greeted by some on the forum.

Aren't most of us at that lovely time in our lives where we can laugh at the foibles that come from many years together? It's nothing to do with gender roles. Mr L cannot get used to the fact that we are no longer 6 in this house, our youngest flew the nest many years ago. He's actually pretty good with the shopping. A few weeks ago, he'd gone to get a few things from Aldi and I messaged him to add penne pasta to the list. He came back with 2 huge packs for some reason. I grouched because it wouldn't fit on the shelf.
As you can imagine, it has come back to bite me on the bum because there's still no pasta to be had in the supermarkets

Phoenix - it’s a funny thread and thank you for starting it. If we can’t laugh at our nearest and dearest at a time like this then when can we? .

Mimimoon
I've just sent that to my elderly Mum and Dad and it's really made their day soooo funny.

Pepper sauce with the steak perhaps?

Thank you to those that "get" my posts. They are indeed meant to be lighthearted.

Funny, isn't it that it's always the same person that mentions "misandry"? Perhaps that person has a problem?

MiniMoon love that lady, even though some might accuse her of misandry! Bet her husband is quite happy to be included in her routine.

That was for HAZBEEN above.

Minimoon that's priceless my DH and I are crying with laughter
Thanks for sharing??

If you wish for us all to witness the full humour of these situations, why not you and others tell us about the times when you have "cocked up the shopping.

It must have happened, as it not just men who create such occurrences.

Oh my God! It was supposed to be fun, light, a little communal raised eyebrow.

Phoenix, many millions of us are in lockdown, and in that and with every respect, your husband going shopping and coming back to the house dramatically increases the threat of infection to yourself i feel.

The volunteers, who are doing a sterling job, are best left free to shop for those who live alone or where no-one in the household is safe enough to shop.

Phoenix has a fit and well husband - why shouldn't he do the shopping? At least she knows he will have adhered to the hygiene rules, which wouldn't be guaranteed with a well-meaning volunteer.

The creamed cabbage sounds delicious by the way!

( interesting typing there)