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Yes, and in fact she has admitted as much. :nod:

Being 6'5" helped as my accent probably wouldn't have sealed the deal if I was only 5'6". ..... She also told me that now, she no longer notices that I have an accent! :lol:

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Now she just keeps you around to do the gardening :p

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And the plumbing, ..... and changing light bulbs without having to fetch a ladder. :rolleyes:

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Hopefully vehicle maintenance and other general handyman skills too (carpentry?) :nod:

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As long as she keeps you well supplied with sandwiches, eh?

:scarper:

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Vehicles, not so much, but anything from electrical work and plumbing, to painting, carpentry, framing, door hanging, tiling, closet shelving, window blinds, and hardwood flooring**, not to mention drainage systems, roofing, siding, and felling trees*, then, yup, I have those things covered. :)

* I finally got around to measuring the pine I felled a few weeks ago (it had hung up on the way down, so I had to fell it by cutting it into pieces from the bottom up :scaredhair:), and it came in at 85ft. :)

** Nail-down hardwood flooring is a special joy of mine, and I have received compliments from a professional flooring installer for my work - he asked who I had had install it, I guess he was thinking he had competition for work.

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I mostly leave her to take care of stuff in the kitchen, though I have been known to prepare a killer fish pie with a puff pastry crust, :nod: .... which I must do again now it is getting cooler.

But she doesn't appreciate my curries made with whatever random meat I find in the freezer. :( I have also been cooking breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays quite a lot recently. :)

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There are too many bloody picky eaters in our house for me to waste my time trying to cook anything, so I just leave that all alone.

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Prob better than mine. My vehicle expertise extends to:

If it starts - all good.
If it doesn't start - not good.
If it starts, goes somewhere and stops - Panic.

I've managed to convert my in-laws into enjoying curries by cooking a mean Japanese Katsu curry, and doing a Korma. It's still a work in progress, but they will happily enjoy mango with diced onion and poppadoms from initial prodding and raised eyebrows.

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Yeah, so errm... I'll be calling the police right about now...

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Can I interest you in a Rumbley's pie? :sneaky:

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So that's the sort of thing you were talking about when you said random meat.

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Which reminds me of this surprisingly sweet dead squirrel story:

Look: Mom shares saga of boy's dead squirrel misadventure at school - UPI.com

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*sigh*, changes have been made to the original post to clarify.

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I would have expected it to be more "gamey" than "sweet". :unsure:

Brunswick stew. :nod: