We thought your ability in the kitchen was good enough …. but lillies in the dining room may elevate you to honorary Diamuid Gavin status!

WoE

To also do what you love for a living must surely be the best job in the world ?

As to my bathroom: I clean and disinfect the whole bathroom every day of the week, without fail !
Cleanliness is next to godliness (no emails about the lack of capital G please)

Time to cook my breakfast
Happy Whitsun (I think)
Rod

As you say pulling together on the division of labour, working as a team etc is the ideal and fortunately that is pretty much what happens in our relatively functional, if not chaotic, household. Once upon a time, I could have been self-sufficient - managerial job, good salary and all that, but I couldn’t wait to get out and be the scatty housewife/mother - guess that says something! And my now wonderfully expressive job is pure escapism from the hoovering!

A feeling of inadequacy on the domestic engineer front is no doubt the root of a niggling guilt!

Little Witchlet x

ps. Did you really clean the bathroom twice in one weekend?!

Out of interest, did point five under the heading manly, involve anyone else? Speaking of your headings girlie and manly …. well we have achieved much the same ….. sorry to hear about your seized bearings by the way, probably an age thing

WoE

Anyhoo, to show you I am not an unreconstrcuted male, some of the things I have done so far this weekend

Girly
Cleaned the bathroom twice
Ditto the kitchen
Sewed a button on
Prepared all my food
Hoovered all the carpets, dusted and did all my washing
Ironed with one hand whilst on phone with other (multi-tasking ?)

Manly
Did some stone walling in the garden
Stripped a lawnmower motor, freed off a seized bearing, now running
Drank and smoked a lot
Moved and laid some paving slabs
[edited]
Lifted weights

All the above clearly demonstrates either:
A: I am very versatile
B: I am gay

Women don’t seek men in order to achieve a secure future do they? We thought it was largely a romantic notion, coupled with their genetic need to renovate! Wonder what percentage of women become ‘carers’ of some sort, it must be high. Take procreation out of the equation and you’d probably find the genders are not so different but there will always be some ‘what have and some what don’t’.

Rest assured Rod, if you were a woman you’d be a size zero and highly sought after by lots of men making proposals. As a friend, we would have to warn you about that sort of man

WoE

Some do of course, others are forced to by circumstance but the reality is, and I know you’ll hate this, there is still every opportunity for a women to find a man and, as far as can be predicted, secure her future.

The same cannot be said for anything like the same number of men.

I think this leads to a basic and fundamental difference in thoughts.

Had I not worked for what I have I would be homeless !
Were I a woman, there is every chance I would be married with a house !

I make no points, just state what are, in the vast majority of cases, facts of life.
Cheers
Rod