"I have limited success at buying the correct lightbulb first time." OMG yes! I've taken to keeping a memo on my phone which room uses which bulbs!
Sainsburys apparently have the same problem...when I ordered a bayonet bulb I got sent as a sub...a screw in bulb of a completely different size! Yea that'll work 🤔🙄
Mine are :
ANY kind of DIY - seriously couldn't do it to save my life if I were being held at gunpoint and Ali had to do was hang a one nail picture!
Spatial awareness - buying furniture I cannot picture/correctly ascertain if it will fit! My mother can merely glance at specs or an item in a showroom and know straight away if an item will fit.
Play poker - I'd LOVE to know, I've tried googling and downloaded umpteen "learn poker" apps - they ALL assume you already know the basics! I don't! I need the very very basics, how many cards dealt per player, which hands beat which etc
"I went to Gala Bingo for the first time a few months ago..." I've been with mum and various other relatives to "the bingo" probably 20 or so times over the years? Still no fucking clue how it works! Someone has to get the right sheet ready for me and tell me if its a line, 4 corners, full house we're going for, I've embarrassed myself on more than a few occasions by calling "house" when I hadn't won
Make scones - no idea what I am doing wrong but they NEVER rise. I'm a fair if basic baker but can manage most baked to a reasonable standard but scones? Nope! Thick weirdly shaped biscuits every time! My mum makes lovely scones and is generally a fab baker but she can't do light pastries, they either collapse or could be used to build walls!
"I can't tie shoe laces properly. I make 2 bows and tie them together" I know how to tie a bow but can never do it so that it STAYS tied for any length of time so I double knot at the end
"bake cakes, but I can cook" I'm mostly ok at both though as a veggie I'm not particularly confident with meat. Interesting scene in tv series "bull" (about jury selection) where jurors were asked if they preferred to bake or cook, bull says something like baking is more of a science and requires a scientific, methodical approach whereas cooking is more of an art, can tolerate a more flexible approach which I have to say I think I agree with... To get a cake to turn out right you have to keep the right balance of wet and dry ingredients and prep in a certain way to ensure it rises (or doesn't) as it should - examples of it being a mistake to randomly swap out ingredients or skip prep steps seen regularly on bake off! Whereas cooking is more subjective "season to taste"
"any maths whatsoever" I can do/get my head round basic arithmetic even to point of creating spreadsheets, fractions/percentages at a push - no chance when it comes to trig/geometry/calculus (I'm not even entirely sure what that is!)!!!
Poach eggs - tried ALL the "tricks" nope!
Sense of direction - nope! I've gone as far as driving 2 counties away because I know how to get home from X town in that county!
"Get keys out of my bag and open the front door without spending five minutes scrabbling in my bag for them" tip from another thread - hair elastic plus one of those clips like you get on trolley tokens to attach/unattach the token to attach keys to zip on inside pocket of handbag - genuine non sarcastic HTH
BigPizzalover I've managed over many years to learn to resist "just a bit more" when making pasta...now just need to learn to resist when making rice/cous cous/quinoa and pearl barley 😂😂😂 I try and use the excuse of being from a big family - problem is I've been a single mother to just dd for 16 years so it's wearing a bit thin as is using dd as excuse for my weight