Hello all,
I s been off line most of the weekend, busy! Thanks for the birthday wishes, I had a lovely night on Friday (seabass in a lemongrass sauce, yum, and then a good karaoke session 
) and then a lovely day again on Saturday with my sisters visiting. I took them out for brunch at a local Belgian cafe (DH and DS joined us for pastries - after we'd already had eggs benedict 🐷). It was quite spendy overall, I am trying not to think about it . Yesterday was an NSD but even so...
YES to always folding bloody laundry. It goes from tumble dryer to spare bed, where it lolls until I have a massive folding binge. Pairing bloody socks and folding t shirts... grrr. These jobs do take ages. DH is in the middle of the husband pack here - he does make himself useful with putting washing on, dishwasher, bins and washing up BUT he doesn't do any cooking or DIY. Simply useless at both. Nor cleaning (we had a cleaner till i stopped work, but I always did cleaning between the cleaner's visits anyway). I don't think he realises how much time that takes up and it annoys me that he doesn't appreciate it. And that even after I have cooked, and he has washed up, I will still need to wipe down the surfaces etc. Grrr!
We changed our duvet together last week (I recruited his help because our mattress is very heavy and I find it hard to get the fitted sheet on at the mo). He was completely inept, even matching his corner of the duvet outside the cover and then wondering why he couldn't pull the cover down over it. I was so full of rage, I couldn't even speak to him afterwards 
He has agreed to throw away his massive stash of old newspapers though. It's almost as tall as I am. if he hadn't married me he'd have been on a hoarder programme by his 60s