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"

Raspberry Pi’s and all the amazing things you can do with them.

Ha ha - I read it as Eurostar and thought you were on the coast of somewhere and it was going to link you to a different continent - it was only when I read the post about trip for chocolate that I began to think ummmm!

In my defence I am supposed to be cleaning so I am scan reading before I get caught by DH who is cleaning elsewhere

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"

Waterproofing and lightbulbs.

Maps

Mine is fishing ... I find boring and cold at this time of year but he loves it.

Sunset and sunrise times. I get a daily update on how many minutes shorter the day is, and how long til they start getting longer again.

I don’t care about this as I am a peelly wally northerner who doesn’t need lots of sunlight.

I just smile and nod but secretly i feel like he is passive aggressively dissing my home ;—) (he’s from sunnier climes)

The smart meter

Terrific post, OP, really made me chuckle.

My DH - hardware stores. Every time he does a home project he needs at least 4 runs to the hardware store for things he's "forgotten".

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"

Fuck’s sake. I just woke nap-averse toddler up by laughing

Ploughing.

Combining.

Carting grain.

Awww, that’s so sweet.

For my DH it’s planes, every time we go on holiday he checks what plane we’ll be in and I’m told what the seat layout is, max capacity, year they were first released etc.

A couple of years ago we booked a holiday based solely on the fact the plane was a Dreamliner. He spoke of nothing else for months. The windows tint don’t you know, no blinds!

• History
• Military history

Not actually that dull, but he's really in to it. Has been for years.

Flight vids on YouTube

How to make sourdough vids mainly bake with Jack. He already makes amazing dourdough.

Sunset and sunrise times. I get a daily update on how many minutes shorter the day is, and how long til they start getting longer again.

Oh god, I do this. I've been lamenting the earlier and earlier sunset for weeks

I was sent to London for a conference earlier this month and was most aggrieved to find that the sun sets a full half an hour later down there than in Glasgow. I felt very hard done by

Late husband. Football.

Screwdriver sets especially ones with a new kind of head.

Fucking smart lights. Have I ever expressed the opinion that life would be so much better if only I could use my phone to turn our bedroom 100 different shades of rainbow colours? Or that it would be just wonderful if the lightswitch would be suddenly obsolete? No? Anyone else? He has got it controlled by google as well and likes to talk to her to make the lights turn off, and the one in the baby's room ping on at 3am.

And no, I do not think €20 is a good deal for a light bulb nor do I especially want another google thingy in the bedroom listening to us have sex. Even if it does mean I can turn the light on without using the switch what was wrong with the humble lightswitch?!

Computer cases that flash different colours. Ooh great, more toddler attraction.

Chocolate biscuits. You'd think I'd stocked up on bars of solid gold the way he reacted to finding Trio bars in the biscuit tin the other night.

The fuel efficiency of a hire car keeps DH entertained for hours on long trips. He has to provide a running commentary of every fluctuation and will then compare to previous cars.

DH: Oh look, we must be going uphill because the fuel efficiency has dropped.
Me: Mmm
DH: Ah, it's back to normal now, we must have levelled out again
Me:

We drove over 3,000 miles on our last road trip and I nearly threw myself out of a moving car just for some peace and quiet!

Reading the meters. I’ve never seen anything like his joy when the special key to open the boxes arrived. It’s always An Event when he decides it’s time to go and do the readings

Storage
The weather

My ex - wood - grain, density etc

My bil - model trains

Cranes, diggers, combine harvesters and how they work. Great.

Looks in the fridge after I've done a shop and "ooh look, some eggs have made an appearance!"or"wow, Hummus, amazing!".... It would surely be more astonishing if I spent an hour at the supermarket and nothing went into the fridge...

Ohh, I've thought of another one. When the bins go out, in what order. The excitement when our council devised an app to tell him this was akin to a child on Christmas eve. He gets a ping at 7pm on a Sunday night from the bin app, and starts to worry if it's late

waits for posters to break it to me that it's not the bins he's texting