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WORD PAIRS -APRIL 2026 (Old thread full )
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Hello all, hope you are safe and well.
But before I get to the point, isn't it a bit 
that we have to say that a post is supposed to be lighthearted?
Aaanyway, Mr P has been working from home, and I mean properly ! He's in the home office from about 8am each morning, quick break for lunch, then back in there until about 5pm.
I too am working from home, but only 2 days a week, but not "fixed", i.e I do what's needed, as and when (hope that makes sense?)
He, like me has been going for "comfortable" clothes , until today, when he appeared in the kitchen wearing a shirt 
ok, he was still wearing his paint stained decorating trousers, but I'm used to that.
My word The strain on those buttons! I swear if he coughed, one would ping off and could have someone's eye out, or at least make it quite sore.
I should have realised when junior mog, Minnie, who adores Mr P, was looking particularly ecstatic the other evening when snuggled up on the shelf that he has developed his lap and seemed to have thought it was now a feline waterbed!
I've tried the subtle approach, i.e saying "You're turning into a right fat b*st*rd" ! In a jocular tone, as it's a phrase we have used before, but usually in relation to other people!
He's never been of a "slender" build, but really!
Buy him a male corset.
Tell him you want him to sit in the corner so you can use his tum as a bookshelf.
Get a friend to face time him and say “my goodness you’ve put on weight, you don’t fit on the screen anymore”?
Join him and eat yourself silly till the lockdown is over and then go running every day.
I have the same problem too except it’s me and not DH 
Easily solved, Phoenix - superglue some razor blades to the hamster wheel and that’s the grass done! 
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