Husbands who do any of the following while their wives are ill: take care of their daughters all weekend empty large quantities of compost into the compost heap despite swarms of wasps walk dogs rub their sick wives backs in the wee hours of the morning when the wives are racked with coughing spasms cook…
Category: JohnTH
More along the line of laundry
John and I had an interesting email exchange over the course of the day. Deleting the personal and irrelevant stuff, it went more or less like this: Me: Day’s going okay so far. K and I are both still alive. Could you make arrangements to swap stuff with the Barretts for Saturday? John: Right. Will…
Laundry lesson, for the domestically challenged
For the education of certain parties who reside in this house. Please take careful note of the following common errors: The appropriate placement for discarded vestments and other articles of clothing is within said hamper. Also please note that leather belts, diapers, money and pocket knives should be removed from the clothing before the latter…
Weird weekend – warning: lots of whining
Right, so we’re down to a month until everything for the show has to be completed and two days before photography for the invites has to be done. Not everything need be ready for photographing, but I do need a good selection of pieces available and they should be representative of what the show will…
Somewhat overdue accolades
On June 22nd, 1996, John and I formally saved two other people from having to tolerate our aberrations and punning. I intended to write one of those sappy and charming, “it’s been a great ten years” posts a couple of months ago, but life got in the way. Actually, that’s not strictly true. I put…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 