not to want to be booted out into the snow?

[lilypotter]

Heavy snow forecast round these 'ere parts for tomorrow. Schools likely to be shut, in which case DCs and I will be at home. DH has planned to work at home anyway, as he has an essay to complete for his MA.

He is always a complete grump re: working and noise and has said that we're going to have to go out for the day as "he has to be able to concentrate and won't be able to if we're in the house!"

My initial reaction was to laugh and say "yeah, right". But it seems he's serious! I've suggested he finds somewhere to go (like the nearest snowdrift) but that didn't go down too well either.

Any suggestions?

PS Go out early and unlock the car, run it for say 15-20 minutes to warm it up before you exile him, and come back in with the car keys, so he cannot decide to drive off and leave you all stranded - in case something comes up and you need to use the car.

Has your loo got a lock on the door ?

If so, he can go in there .... though if you only have one he's going to have to get used to be interupted periodically.

Like many others, I've completed essays and a dissertation admist noise. Now, I work from home in an open plan study area (impossible to move due to PC connections) with a background of TV, bickering and all sorts of noise - EVERY day.

He's being absolutely ridiculous and precious and can't surely expect you to build snowmen or whatever in sub zero temperatures ALL day. Maybe he'll have to compromise ..... start his essay tonight when the kids are in bed, and finish it off in similar fashion over other evenings.

Can you not compromise with you and the kids keeping out of the room he is in and keeping the noise down.
Agree if it's just an essay then he could go to library. If the kids are school age they should understand the need for quiet though.

In theory, yes. But one accidental slammed door or fight raised voice, and he's flouncing out of the study, shouting.

Gets on my nerves. Almost preferable having to go to work.

Tell him to do it tonight, after the kids are in bed.

Stick him in the car/shed/garage if he can't get to the library - what a nob. Really. Or he can shove stuff in his ears.

I have some sympathy with needing quiet for an essay, but not in this situation - he has the problem, he should solve it, not expect you to drag DC out into the snow! Nob. (repeating myself now!)

Or he could build himself an igloo.

I certainly would NOT leave the house.

Perhaps he can drop you off at the nearest large mall with multiplex cinema, cafes etc and a lot of money?

Where's he expecting you all to go in this weather FFS?

If you work from home you can never forget its first and foremost a home. You simply have to learn to block out extraneous noise. Shut yourself in a room, put on headphones and get down to it. DH and I both work from home, I've had to learn to tune out him doing conference calls on the other side of the room.

If your DH lacks adequate concentration then he needs to build a shed down the bottom of the garden.

yanbu.

He has two options:

1. learn pretty sharpish to work in a room, with the door shit and to awitch off from background nosie

1. go to a library

can he not use ear plugs? My DP works nights and has to sleep in the day. We have a 5 month old DS who cries a lot and ear plugs are saving our family

What happened in the end?

Do you still have snow (silly question, perhaps)?