DIY - I'd rather he didn't!

Hubby was home this week, (we are a couple of LATs, hubby's job necessitates that he spends 3 weeks of every month living and working in London), and as usual my son had put all his broken toys into "Daddy's draw" to be fixed.

After hubby had replaced the wheels on various toy cars, mended the Hungry Hippo game and sorted out the missing limbs on various toys he turned to me and asked the question most wives dread, "do you need anything fixed around the house?."

Now, you would think after all these years together I would know better but I actually said "yes" and here is the list:

fix the sticky lock on the front door
mend the garage door handle
screenwash and oil needed in car

Ok guess which job went spectacularly wrong, did you get it right? Yep, the screenwash. After 45mins a sheepish hubby returned and said that he had poured the screenwash into the coolant reservoir and had to drain it, this would mean taking out the battery etc. STOP, I cried and thrust a coffee into his hands.

I dashed across the road to my French neighbours house and asked if he had a moment. This gentlemen used to design helicopters, built his own house and is perfect for that DIY emergency.

Sorry I can't pass on his contact details, he is very much occupied at our house 3 weeks a month putting right my hubby's DIY disasters!!!

Note to hubby: DIY - i'd rather you didn't.


More on LATs - information from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Living Apart Together (abbreviation: LAT) is a term for couples who, whilst committed to each other, decide to have separate homes rather than one shared residence.

The Times Study speculates that quantum of LAT relationships equates the incidences of de facto relationships in the UK.[1]

LATs consist of three factions, concerning decision to keep separate domestic residences. There are firstly: the "gladly apart", and two minorities identified as being: the "regretfully apart" (due to work commitments, family responsibilities, legal/residency requirements, or other reasons) and the "undecidedly apart" (committed but not especially moving towards cohabitation at the time).