What has your better half fixed today?

Thank you for your lovely comments. I certainly hope we shall get good use if it for many summers. Gabriella we have a small 2 seater settee and 2 chairs and a small coffee table in it so not huge but suits us. We also have a small electric heater in and lighting. It was a retirement present from me to my DH.

Lucca my DH and I have been wed for 42 years.
As a partnership we work to our own strengths and he is definitely the better fixer of broken stuff (I’m the clumsy one).
And I’m definitely the better cook out of us both. ??

I don’t have a better, or worse, half. And why should “he” be the fixer anyway ? I’ve fixed the blocked Dyson.

Brunette10 - what a beautiful summer house, and a clever hubby.
Wish you long summer days to enjoy it.
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That looks fabulous Brunette10
I hope it gets lots of use this year. Does it hold many people?

Love the topiary too. Very swish ?

I don't have a 'better half' - I'm a complete capable person all on my own!

Today, I glued and nailed just a couple of bits of wood onto my wall panelling project - and destroyed some bamboo roots in the garden. Very lazy of me. I just don't know where the day went to be honest.

My OH has been in a right grumpy mood today! Hes been digging out an old dead Tree root that is being a bit of a pain in the backside to remove. He refused any Lunch, then came back into the kitchen later, and made a right mess on the worksurfaces helping himself to a Sandwich, there were empty packets and crumbs everywhere, he certainly does not believe in the 'Clear as you go' theory!

Here it is.

My DH has been working on our Summer House today by adding on new guttering and downpipes. He actually built the Summer House when it was delivered and hand painted it to complete. He has always been a ‘hands-on’ man and for normal makes a very good job of tasks. He is, as I write just finishing the job off and a very good one at that.

She mowed her mum’s lawn and edged ours after I mowed it, quite handy actually !.

DH has never been a practical man. His mother thought him too clever to be bothered with mending things; I have always preferred to pay someone to do a proper job - AND FINISH IT - and this has kept our marriage going. Now I have to do everything anyway, so if I can’t do it I usually know a man who can. Though not at the moment, obviously.

As I'm the better half I do everything that it's my responsibility to fix myself. Anything else, I get someone in to do it and bill my landlord. ????

I wish my DH was the pro active handyman type but he isn’t. Like a bull in a china shop.

He has started to dismantle the garden decking as he has a grand scheme for paving in mind. Admittedly the decking was old and getting a bit rotten but it could have waited. So far it has involved a lot of sawing, drilling, noise and swearing. The swearing was mostly from me as I realized he has started something that he will be unable to finish until lockdown is over. The garden now looks like a bomb site and any hope of warm evenings spent sipping a G&T on the patio have been reduced to rubble.

DH has earned his supper today - he banged a large stake in the lawn and buckled a leaning tree to it.
The tree can grow straight and tall now ?

The lawn mower has developed a hole in its side, rusted through.
Will probably lash out on a new one end of summer, when reduced hopefully, but to keep it going for the time being, DH has spent most of the day trying to fashion a new side part out of an old frying pan! Lots of welding type activity have gone on, but reluctantly will maybe have to find a thinner bit of metal.
It has kept him occupied all day.

I'm lucky my husband can turn his hand to most things, he has just mowed the grass and is now doing home made pizza and salad for supper.

I wish he could turn his hand to throwing away rubbish.

Unblocked a toilet that he denies blocking....

He changed the bulb in the glass fronted cupboard in the kitchen It drives me bonkers when one has gone and they are going with increased frequency lately.

Has been out cutting the grass, and trimming the hedges which means going up a high ladder which I had banned him from doing, but he sneaked out. Also cut the hedges with an electric trimmer and no goggles. He has very little sight in one eye and glaucoma in both, so damaging his good eye would be a tragedy. He is now out putting in some of the bedding plants.

I am very grateful for all his hard work, but I know he will have overdone it and with his back will hardly be able to move tomorrow, bless him!

Original answer Woodmouse!

erm.....nothing. He put the washing on the line when I was at work (he's been off for 8 weeks now)

He has made shuttering ,so we can make a concrete base for a wall we shall build in the garden. Probably we will make the base on Wednesday as rain if forecast for tomorrow. I love helping DH with jobs like this.

DH is busy doing whatever takes his fancy for that day.

We now have an even longer list of half finished jobs!

Some of these half finished jobs are needed for our house build. The plumber and water company will be back when lock down restrictions make it possible.

"I don't like to plan", is his reply when I ask when he will finish the important/essential jobs.

He's just on the last leg of painting the bungalow which also involved replacing the soffit boards. Tomorrow it's up on the roof to do the chimney.
I'm very lucky that I don't have to wait or ask twice for something to be fixed as we are both of the same mind: do it now.
Yesterday he welded the next door nieghbours Sun umbrella stands as they were wobbly. She didn't ask. We were talking over the fence and just mentioned it. Before you know it, out comes the welder. Job done.