The "Would you marry for money?" thread made me think about my husband and his DIY skills that I appreciate more and more the longer we are married.
He builds, does carpentry, electrics (okay, he is qualified in the latter), lays wooden floors (most recently in a chevron pattern), cooks, gardens, hangs blinds and artworks, repairs window catches, replaced a faulty toilet last week, paints and decorates, all with such precision, flair and an eye for design that he is a real treasure. And worth a small fortune in what it would cost.
(When he takes a break, he does a cryptic crosswords or the most difficult Suduko).
And I know that money could buy in all these skills, but I don't have to organise, project manage nor do quality control as it's all "in-house".
So I'm glad I married for DIY (although I didn't realise it at the time) - no wonder my friends are envious.
How will you stop the strikes?
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic