Following on ffrom the other thread - what CAN you do?

[Clary]

Couldn't find one so I'll start it.

I am the only person in my house who can:
mow the lawn
check the car tyre pressure (yes really)
change the bedlinen (hoho)
organise a fantastic child's party
bake a birthday cake
remember to buy birthday presents for all the parties
order an indian takeaway

See I am a woman of many talents, even if I can't cartwheel.

I can do a straight centre parting and gives dds the perfect bunches. dh doesn;t believe in partings.

I'm the only one in this house who can translate the Sagas from Old Norse.
And the only one who can wipe a worktop.

oh Pruni, you are lucky, we have to get someone in whenever we need sagas translating. it's a real pain.

rub my tummy and pat my head at the same time

I am the only person in my house who can:
Do the washing
buy our boys birthday/Christmas presents
change a nappy of the poo variety without wretching
deal with vomit
answer the phone

I can speak fluent french and russian, and order drinks / dinner in about 5 other languages. Can also play the piano and violin.

I can knit, sew and bake bread.

I can also pay bills, buy birthday presents, do internet banking and find houses / schools / nurseries etc for the family. I don't think DH has paid a bill since we've been together. Stumping up the readies via the joint account isn't enough to count for that one. Left to him, we would be repossessed with no gas, elec or water (though to his credit we would have a nice full cellar to get through whilst we lived on the streets )

in my house am the only one who can:

Play the clarinet, saxophone, flute, piccolo, piano, harpsichord and sing
Drive (well DH has passed his test but just won't drive now
Check the tyre pressures/change tyres etc.
Cook
Put my leg behind my head
Tidy ANYTHING up properly
Do more than one thing at the same time
Juggle (but only with 3 balls)

In our house I am the only one who

books holidays
Does money
does MN..
watches West Wing
cleans the AGA
cuts the grass
stands at the WC
drinks
and
Has a plan

I'm loving this thread

Have just remembered that I can read Homer in the original (or I could at one time; can still read the Greek alphabet and thus transcribe if not translate).

I'm the only one in the household who can do anything domestic at all (except cook DH is superlative at that), if I'm here , if I'm not DH suddenly discovers the ability.

No but seriously, I can re-wire the fuses. Mow the lawn. Clean the cooker, and fix the gas hob when the air inlet gets blocked. Change the bedding, and nappies for that matter! Pick up wet towels and hang them to dry. Pay the bills and organise the money, DH just hunter gathers it . Mop the floor. Do DIY. Read Latin, similarly to you I think Clary, DH does the Greek so we're well covered when it comes to classics. Sing. Knit. Do needlepoint, design it, not just follow a pattern. Draw, well I used to be able to, havent tried for a while. Oh god yes forgot dealing with vomit and poo. Choose a car, DH has no interest in such things and only drives at the weekend. TBH the more I think about it the more I think we are lucky to have a good team - for everything I do DH does something complimentary.

Im the only adult who lives in the house so i HAVE to do everything. but when partner comes over i am the only one who can.....

Iron his shirts
ring up to order take away
run baths
tidy up

I can juggle but only with three balls (so far!)
I can make a meal out of nothing the day before I'm due to stock up at the supermarket.
I can reboot the computer.
I can stop my girls aguing (hubby just makes them worse)
I can make breakfast, do packed lunches, get two girls up, showered, and get ready to leave the house for school/work in less than an hour (I think thats good?)

I can speak Russian, German and French.
I can cook.
I can read really fast.
I can spell pretty much anything (without using spell check).
This is like a job interview where you have to list your strengths!

Oh and what is your plan anteater?

I can walk on stilts!!! a forgotten talent till we went to a folk park and there was these stilts and I was off like a shot!!! there was no stopping me. Comes in handy like.... not very often

I can

• pack far more things into a car boot/ suitcase than DH
• foresee the need for nappies and snacks when we go out
• recognise which jigsaw all the little lost bits come from and actually put them back in the box

i can
-clean bottles properly (so dp doesn't have to check them when ,making them up!)
-navigate map of dp's home town when he was born and brought up here and i only lived here for 2 and 1/2 years!
-remember his dads birthday (or any1s for that matter)

• remember to throw old milk bottles away when opening a new one
• remember to throw any old stuff away
• know when he's pinched some of my chocolate (especially my easter egg) when he thinks i haven't noticed

judging by this thread, you'd think that men can't remember anything! but then my memory is terrible lately... !

I can do most of the multi-tasking stuff listed above, but in addition, I can:
Play the trumpet.
Pick out any tune on a tin whistle (ok, lame, but no-one else in my family can).
Sing in tune.
bake and cook.
bellydance.
Speed read and spot a literal at 100 paces.
Think of things to make from empty loo roll holders, boxes etc (that's for my dh who is always having a go at me for not throwing them out).
Always find something in my handbag to entertain a small fretful child.
hear dead people speaking (Actually no - just threw that in to see of anyone was still reading .
Work out how to get car keys accidentally locked in car on the seafront at the start of a bank holiday weekend, while husband throws himeself around, swearing and not actually achieving anything...(this is a new talent, discovered on Saturday night

can sing " How much is that doggy" backwards (first verse anyway), a skill learned many moons ago from Junior Showtime on TV. Not sure that counts tho, as my sis can do it too!

I used to be able to blow little bubbles in the corner of my eye Haven't tried it for a while though.

Jesus holy moses Greeny, that is the bizarrest thing I have heard all day.

It was great at primary school for terrifying all the girly types

I'm the only person in my house who can drive a fork lift truck. I passed my test while I was pg. My boy is going to know that MUMS drive forklifts and big trucks.
DH is the only one who can use a sewing machine.

I can ...

do double somersaults from very high diving boards
count to 10 in Swahili
swim a length underwater
write legibly backwards/mirror writing as fast as normally

God, I feel inadequate now compared to you lot!!!
Apart from all the things it seems nearly all MN'rs do that DP's/DH's don't/can't/won't in house wise (I joke DH walks in the door, hangs his coat up and then hangs his brain up next to it!!!! :o)......

........I do fight people with sharp, pointy sticks (fence) tho' (mucho cred w. 6 yo boys)

I can still put my legs behind my neck and also if my hands were tied behind my back, I could maneouvre them over the front to pick the knots - good if I'm kidnapped but stuffed if they use handcuffs.

I also know that if you don't hang on to a one year old he'll fall off the sofa and that putting them in a bath with the hot tap still running is not a good thing