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roasted pirate!

we seem to have a unanimous decision

ah, but you'll have to catch me first

You can hide here, Pierce.

This is a fascinating conversation. Bel, my husband never puts anything away. he just waits for me to trip over things knowing I will move them!

As for tidying up, housework or whatever, he tends to ask "when's the Queen Mother coming?" when I do anything when he is there!!! Like I only clean up when someone's coming. As I have got older I have bothered less - if people don't like a busy, untidy house, they needn't bother visiting

Like you though, I am not keen on sudden, unannounced (or short notice) visits.

Glad all went well in the end. I shall make no further comments about husbands in case I get roasted

Websailor

"I shall make no further comments about husbands in case I get roasted"

Fear not, Websailor, everyone knows men can't make a decent roast.

that's then

Websailor

I dont know ask John of Arc

A case in point. I'd rather eat something not *quite* so well-done.

thanks for the offer, bel i'll try to give you more than a few hours notice

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you know that guy who wrote 'men are from , women are from ?' he was on my tv the other day telling about his newest in which he claims female have to clean and tidy to built up a necessary hormone, while males have to relax in order to do the exact same (however, a different hormone)

i wonder if he gets way with that, but so far he hasn't been stoned yet

Well - that seems to have explored that argument in full. I can but add one thing (and it is NOT a complaint about my long suffering wife) about putting things away. If you marry someone who cannot read or write, you suddenly realise just how much you come to rely on reading in the kitchen. Nothing (herbs, spices etc) are ever in the same container twice!!

Sounds like he was stoned when he wrote the book Pierce.

ouch! you mean the herbs and spices were not always stored in alphabetical order?

please note that i'm not making a joke! i prefer to have thse things in alphabetical order, just because i am so lazy - but i can appreciate when other people think that i am a neurotic freak

and for your information i am sure i can fire up this argument well and truly again - but i didn't divorce my wife ten years ago to fight here now

But when storing them in alphabetical order there's always the dilemna - do you store them by the name in the country they came from or the name they are called in the label? I always get stuck at that point, and decide to store them according to colour.

But then one of my friends who is colour-blind ended up almost cooking Parsley-con-carne, so I decided to leave them in the most-often-used order and leave it at that.

Mine are grouped like the glass jars above them - I try to distribute the various sizes and shapes harmoniously to make a kind of spicy skyline. But mostly they're by order of wherever I happened to put them.

The glass jars are more or less where I'm likely to need them - cooking ingredients on the right by the stove, baking things more toward the middle.

I put my spices in alphabetical order, too, but nobody else does, so they always mess me up. Apart from that, I am very, very bad indeed at putting things away...

Actually, when my oldest daughter was about 20 months old, she saw me cleaning up, vacuuming, etc., and happily exclaimed: "Granny is coming!". Unfortunately, she was right...

We might not be able to have roast pirate on Saturday because my oldest daughter might be visiting, and she's a vegetarian...

... so it's perfectly SAFE for any pirate to drop by ...

You? Bad at putting things away?

Well, my oldest daughter says I am...

A wise woman indeed, your oldest daughter!

I feel compelled to give her all my .

That's what I usually end up doing...

in alphabetical order?