It's taken a while and the project isn't yet complete.
I've been using the 'grumpy bastard' technique to get her to understand I'm fine doing it on my own.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 17:48,
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i've gone for just asking her to do unpleasent things till she leaves me alone
"can i help?"
"yeah, that'd be great actually, can you clean that casarole dish thats been sitting there for a month slowly evolving rudimentary sentience?"
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Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank,
Mon 19 May 2008, 17:52,
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Haha, you're a crueler man than me.
Although in my old, filthy student house, she once decided to do all our washing up.
It seemed that the only time our kitchen was clean was after one of our girlfriends visited.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 17:54,
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the only time our house cleans up is when either myself or my menopausal-woman-trapped-in-a-20-year-old-man housemate
suddenly crack and go on cleaning binges
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Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank,
Mon 19 May 2008, 17:58,
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