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"

"Is that an orchid?" (It never is.) "The leaves have mostly fallen now." "Was that a yellowhammer?" (It never was).

Steam trains ... yawn!

You know the book on concrete that Daddy Pig takes out from the library?

DFIL has that book.

See also - histories of house-building, trains, trainspotting, etc.

Fishing flies

Mine's a keen and very competitive racing dinghy sailor.

All I need to know is that he hasn't drowned, or drowned his crew but what I get is a minute-by-minute account of how they pinched under the lee shore and set the kicker a bit higher before the spinnaker set at the end of the second beat and then overtook that guy who won the Southern Championships the year they held it at Shoreham and then the rudder pin gave them a bit of trouble on the reach out to the third mark.....*yawn

And don't get me started on the crap trophies he wins....

DH - extremely obscure indie music.

I have taken to screwing my face in concentration and asking innocently, "is it...... Coldplay?" and then observing the imperfectly stifled rage.

Diggers ... snooze

Our internet speed (complaints about).

How “full” our Sky Plus storage is getting (it isn’t). And the need to delete everything AS SOON AS IT’S WATCHED or the world will explode.

“Technical” outdoor clothings and why he needs 20 pairs of trousers which look exactly the same to me.

Chillis and their Scoville scale.

Mosconi Cup. (No, I hadn’t heard of it either)

"Is that an orchid?" (It never is.) "The leaves have mostly fallen now." "Was that a yellowhammer?" (It never was).

Mine was like that too - he only ever spotted the most unusual things. One time we had 'ooh I've found an agate' - when walking across a field - it was goose shit.

I pinched the new screw fix catalogue when it plopped through the letterbox and wrapped it up as an extra present under the Christmas tree a couple of years ago as a piss take, he loved it.

Pairing socks, he needs lots of natural light and also all lights on to ‘do it properly’.

Costco, screw fox and gadgets. So many ducking gadgets.

Also anything that can cut wood. He has all the saws, cutters etc any carpenter would ever need. He doesn't every use them. Madness.

Engineering.... every bloody bridge we drive over I get it's full history.
Planes and how they work,that was a LONG flight to Mexico.
I'm going to start travelling separately.

I'm looking at the Screwfix catalogue splayed open 2 feet away from me and sniggering

Another lightbulb enthusiast. Which has its uses since the world moved on from 40/60W screw/ bayonet, other than the fact that I get so much detail, I shut off and haven't got a clue. When he's near the lightbulb section, it's time to drift off for 20 mins.

He works in a geeky, technical industry. I do a lot of smiling and nodding when he talks about work. Working my butt off at GCSE physics has had some benefits! Proof-reading his phd was tough going though... I fell asleep part-way through

He tolerates my geek topics well though. I do love a good oxbow lake

Emley Moor Television Mast.
There. Surely that's a winner for the most dull husband topic.

Plucking hair

His Football fantasy team...🙄

my dp loves to look at cardboard shop display units thingies.

We sometimes have to visit Cath Kidston just to look at theirs. I know all about pret's . I currently have a cardboard monster in the corner of my sitting room.

I love a geographical feature myself.

We are such an interesting couple.

Maps
Motorbikes
Gardening

A few years ago screwfix message board won an award for being the most abusive message board on line. Iwonder if all these catalogue loving husbands are on tbere.

Op you are cracking me up! Are you a writer?

I can’t believe cycling has only been mentioned once on this thread. I am so bored of hearing about wheels, and inner tubes, and saddles, and fixings for saddles. Then there’s Strava - kill me now.

And merino wool and it’s wicking qualities.

God no, not a writer, far far from it! I run a small cleaning business would anyone like to hear me wax lyrical on the merits of Stardrops over Flash?

Tricked into visiting Waterloo

Screwfix have a message board?!?!

Emley Moor Television Mast

Tell him I've been to the top of that, which is a hell of an experience. You can see for miles possibly both the east and west coast. The lift takes nearly 10 minutes and they make you sign a disclaimer that if it breaks down, you will climb out of the escape hatch and descend via the emergency ladder .

This thread has confirmed what I already knew that I'm very geeky but I don't really talk to people about the things I'm interested in such as the Millau bridge, maps, big factories, machines and how it's made type stuff, because most people don't share the same interests.

Calories

After being obese for years through free he’s lost 4.5 stone. All he talks about and gets enthusiastic about is calories and excercise. Yawnnnnnnn