dscott
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Post by dscott on May 2, 2007 20:54:35 GMT
Choose a lovely wife from another country, who once you have completely re decorated the whole house, added a conservatory, and landscaped the garden, has offered me a new lathe or milling machine on the finish of the domestic project. I have a lovely mother in law, with out of this world cooking, but as she lives in deepest China I have only met her once.
Now where did I put that shelf that needed putting up in the kitchen tonight. oh its too late, never mind if I bang in time with next doors children trampolineing in the dark I can do it !!!!!
David.
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Lurkio
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Post by Lurkio on May 2, 2007 21:15:59 GMT
Well, Noddy, where are you? After all this advice, what's it to be?
Soften her up? Put her in her place? Buy her out? Get a new SWMBO? Or ask Tel to lend you his hole saw and stay in the shed?
Lurkio.
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Post by Boadicea on May 3, 2007 8:33:22 GMT
So then you would need two holes, one at eye level and one at ..... Hmmm.... wonder where I put the BIG hole saw. Nobody said you had to cut a hole for your feet Tel! ;D Regards, Bo.
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ewal
Part of the e-furniture
Happiness is a good wife & a steam engine.
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Post by ewal on May 5, 2007 20:27:31 GMT
My workshop is the front room, this was at my wife's suggestion. I have a Colchester lathe, an ML7 & a Tom Senior Mill, the only thing of hers is the freezer & I use the lid as a bench. I also took a section of the living room as an assembly shop & fitted an over head crane. The secret is to pick the right wife & to start as you mean to go on. On my Web Site you will see her making concrete sleepers & when we built our house in 79-80 she mixed all the morter & plaster with a shovel while I built. The only flowers I gave her was when she had our first child & my mother gave me them.
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Post by havoc on May 5, 2007 21:02:27 GMT
I tought it was for his belly otherwise he can't put his eye to the peephole...
Love your story Ewal, but I fear not everyone has that chance.
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Post by Peter W. on May 6, 2007 12:54:46 GMT
I also took a section of the living room as an assembly shop & fitted an over head crane. The secret is to pick the right wife & to start as you mean to go on. You should have told me that 40 years ago, not NOW ! It's not too bad in the garage, but SWMBO would really like to put a car in it
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Post by havoc on May 6, 2007 18:31:30 GMT
No one in my family has a garage with a car in it.
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Post by silverfox on May 6, 2007 19:53:45 GMT
Well as i have a brick shed, that is out of the question, and why is it that 5 mins into some work, the urge to go somewhere crops up. As shed is bottom og garden and bog at front of house..... long walk.So i reverted to a large lemonade bottle... until une day it got kicked over in a rush to get to the bog, for a reason the bottle wouldnt accomodate. The good lady was helpless when i told her, and the smell was not nice, used all my aftershave,and deodorant on the floor to mask it. Hung around for two weeks and the shed smelt like a small room somewhere in Soho!... not by memory you undertnd.. just a guess.
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Post by Boadicea on May 7, 2007 7:54:00 GMT
This has probably gone far enough, but I think you should have a sign for visitors - "Do not drink the lemonade!" or a warning sign on the bottle "Lemonade can damage your health". You probably need to cover yourself as well with a "May contain nuts" label - I suppose it depends on the size of the neck of the bottle - and the size of nuts of course. ;D Regards, Bo.
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Post by Shawki Shlemon on May 7, 2007 9:21:24 GMT
In my experience garages are not made for cars at all , I rarely see them used for cars , mostly are used for store rooms , some kind of workshop or small jim . In my case it is a workshop . The car lives in a carport .
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bazp
Active Member
Mooooooooo!
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Post by bazp on May 8, 2007 11:53:31 GMT
Its not just wives that are problematic. I wanted to put the workshop in the front downstairs bedroom, but my boyfriend wouldn't let me!
My dad got ever so jealous when I told him about the time I stripped my Jenny Lind in the middle of the (beige) living room carpet! The wonders of owning your own home!
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Post by Shawki Shlemon on May 9, 2007 9:58:58 GMT
Let us trade the words wife / boyfriend with the word partner .All we have to do is to involve or make the partner interested in the hobby or some part of it then the problem is halve solved . Just an opinion !!!
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Post by steammadman on May 9, 2007 20:09:02 GMT
Tel is bragging again guys !!!!!!
ANY ONE GOT A 4" HOLESAW ?
waggy, have you ever been battered with a bunch of flowers? not very pleasent if they are roses.
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