Incredibly dull things your husband gets excited about

[Adventcandles]

Please tell me I'm not the only one?

We live in a village and have a bit of a drive to the nearest "proper" shops. Hence the excitement over the new Eurospar that has been built over the last few months, opening today.

DH has provided a running commentary on the development of this project, his approval of how they've blended the new construction nicely in with the facade of the listed building involved, his disgust at the choice of electricians used (he spotted their van) his excitement when he peered in the window and realised it's actually going to be a sort of split level effect...

Today I woke up in darkness to DH's head sort of floating above me in the morning gloom, and a hiss of "it's half six. The new Eurospar opens at seven"

I had to tell him that, according to Facebook, it opens at 12,and he will have to wait until tomorrow so we can visit it as a family. He was absolutely crestfallen, but I'm going to suprise him with an emergency need for chocolate later tonight. He will then be able to visit this new Mecca, and come back all puffed up like a pigeon, to report on its wonders. I imagine that once the excitement fades, he'll go back to his previous fixation, "what sort of shed shall we get next summer"

@Hoppinggreen he does not like the new mast. He comments on it every time
We see it (often. We are local)

My husband has spent the best part of two weeks discussing buying a new Hoover dust filter. I'm tempted to just go and buy an entirely new bloody Hoover so we don't have to discuss this every goddam day!!

Mine is now planning on setting up an app to he can be reminded which bin goes out when

Our council has an email reminder service.

Unfortunately, we are behind the times, no app and no reminder service. It will keep him happy so I don't mind. Not sure what we will talk about on Thursday mornings though.

Unfortunately, we are behind the times, no app and no reminder service. It will keep him happy so I don't mind. Not sure what we will talk about on Thursday mornings though

I just colour in a bit of the relevant day on the kitchen wall-planner with felt pen. Alternating Blue and Green blobs every Monday. Took me five minutes, lasts all year.

I heard him talking to the TV earlier, an early evening quiz show. I always thought he was talking to me when he did that, but apparently not as I wasn't in the room!

We could do that but the weekly chat about this is one of the bonding things that keeps our marriage happy.

There's a council bin app? DH will think he's died and gone to heaven.

Bicycles, and any component part

Smart lights and any home automation gadget. There's a fucking app for the cat flap ffs.

That's about it, love him loads but keep the other two subjects in my don't give a shit bag.

Warhammer - lots of armies of little plastic figures that need painting in tiny detail to go out and fight with other tiny plastic figures. It also involves very complex spreadsheets. He has friends to do this with though. Rule books are constantly updated and new releases every week.

The opening of a new Lidl in neighbouring village.
Free village magazine that comes through the door quarterly
Pull out sodoku from newspaper
Question Time-it's on series link on sky
I've never heard of Eurospar!!

another fishing one. I,m not saying it,s dull just I,m not into it.

My husband has just bought an extendable paint roller, with a spare roller. It extends in 2 separate places. He can do the ceilings without even stretching his arm. It is truly the most amazing purchase and he would be thrilled to demonstrate it to anyone who would like to see it.

@LashesZ I feel your pain. Bastarding motorbikes.

Farming. Cows. Vintage cars and antiques here.

But he does like a screwfix though!

The middle aisles at Lidl and Aldi...he'll always sneak into the loos and facetime me if I go while he's at work so he can still have a look! Bless him.

Wind farms/turbines to be fair he does work in an industry where he visits sites quite often. Whenever we are travelling in the car across the country he will tell me what the name of the wind farm is and which ones are getting serviced etc etc. Its a running joke with the DCs and if they are with us they will often ask oooh look dad what wind farm is that? And then chuckle in the back seat as he goes off on a monologue.

Also over the past 3 years since he got a Fitbit I get a daily detailed report on his sleep quality from the previous night and how many steps he had done so far or if his heart rate is raised.

The screwfix catalogue is nick named acceptable porn where I work

Worst of all is the section for Resolva, Roundup and other general glyphosate-based and moss-removal products.

Or 'Weeders' Drives', to give it its official name....

The proposed pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre - especially during more, erm, 'intimate' moments....

There's a fucking app for the cat flap ffs

We have that, I particularly like the newsfeed feature where it says what they've been up to recently like 'herbert looked through the back door' and 'greedy guts entered through the front door' (we have 2 cat flaps, not sure why, high traffic mainly, as we have 4 of our own and also foster for a local rescue charity).

it's also useful if you have cats like some of ours who spend a lot of time outside and you can sometimes go for days without seeing them. App tells you if they come in and out while you're out or in bed, proves they're still alive and probably well.

The 500 euro robot litter tray sounds like a step too far even if it did self fill and self empty to the outside bin. Ours would probably either overwhelm it so it exploded from overuse or refuse to go anywhere near it.

I remember my husband buying a garden hoover for the garden because I complained about having to sweep up the leaves. Well he loves the thing and is out hoovering the garden all the time bless!

It's not really dull but recycling. Every package is scrutinised for recycling potential and tutted at if it isn't "recyclable" yet he refuses to cook from scratch so a bit of inconsistency there.

Cricket stats, I don't mind the game but I couldn't care less whether it was the first time a a century was scored by a batsman holding his bat in the wrong hand🏏

@Adventcandles the bit about emergency chocolate is sooooo sweet! You sound like such a funny and lovely person :0)

I do the diy but when DH has the privilege of driving me to pick up some things at screwfix he always ogles the clothes and especially boots... could be related to his love for Action Man toys, amongst a thousand and one other toy / cartoon / anime / computer game things.

DH is proper crestfallen this morning. Apparently our local council doesn't have an app reminder for our bin collection.

He has emailed the council in pique.

I need a trip to Screwfix, but I'm not a nerd, honestly 😁 I need some stuff to repair a gate.

DD is obsessed with those Air Crash Investigation programmes, she can drone on about the whole thing, sounding very knowledgeable, yet she's a fashion student 😂😂