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I really can't believe this - am bewildered and shocked at DH

122 replies

strangesituation · 12/02/2008 14:23

Ok, before I start I am a MN regular and have been since my first DC was born in 2001. I remember the supermarket grapes, the river of sweetcorn, all the thread on breast V bottle and many others, but I have had to change my name for this. You will realise why in a minute.

When I first met my DH he was trying to forge a living out of being an artist. He is fantastic but he soon realised how competitive it is and soon realised he just had to make a hobby out of it rather than a career. He now has a more mainstream job which often requires him to work from home so he has the smallest bedroom as his home office.

The DC's wanted to do some drawing today and I went in his home office to get some printer paper for them to use. While I was in there I opened the wrong drawer and found some of his recent "artwork" and was absolutely shocked at what I found. He had done some pencil sketches of women - normal stuff such as women walking in the rain with umbrellas, women having picnics in the park etc. However he had stuck what looks like ladygarden hair on some of the picture, so part of the umbrella was made out of this as was the womans shoes in the picnic picture. Its definitely not his own as - god I am cringing as I write this - his is red so I strongly suspect he has been rummaging in the bin in the bedroom to get my clippings out. I went to check the bin as I had trimmed my ladygarden on Monday and the trimmings were no longer there. Worse still some of the "decorative pieces" were blonde and I have NEVER had a blonde ladygarden so where on earth is he getting those bits from. I am mortified and disgusted with him. What on earth am I going to say to him?

OP posts:
TimeForMe · 13/02/2008 11:47

I'm glad it's all resolved SS. The power of a womans mind eh?

Threadworm · 13/02/2008 11:49

ROFL at Desiderata's Pubist Period

MamaG · 13/02/2008 11:51

I know who you are ss

KerryMum · 13/02/2008 11:54

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Baffy · 13/02/2008 12:02

MamaG??

Don't tell me it was a wind up... did I waste another hour of my life?!

strangesituation · 13/02/2008 12:09

I sincerely hope you don't MamaG

How IS that done Jellies? Its even weirder than my DH's offerings. When I say offerings btw I mean his artwork not his manhood

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iamanartistiam · 13/02/2008 12:09

oh bum i'm too late.

i just wanted to add that this seems entirely normal behaviour to me, and in fact am now disappointed it wasnt pubes.

i use pube (my own i might add!) in my art work- sort of sewing them in to fabric. recently i have been working on an idea for a fertility symbol and want to dye the fabric with menstrual blood. not sure how to get hold of that kind of quantity i was thinking of asking mn ladies who use mooncups to collect some in small vials and send them to me. but didnt think that would go down to well and my friend put me off and said it wasnt a socially acceptable thing to do.

so, i dont get why you are all disturbed by it frankly. its art innit??

by the way i am NOT a troll, i am a big womens art fanatic and completed my degree 8 yrs ago- name changed regular as dont want to be forever associated with pubes and blood lol!

Baffy · 13/02/2008 12:20

sorry - I'm not an arty type though and really don't 'get' all that stuff!

iamanartistiam · 13/02/2008 12:52

no not many people seem to lol!

CountessDracula · 13/02/2008 12:55

so J just happened to be shaving off a beard while your dh was round there for drinks

a likely story...

How long was said facial hair?
Have you seen J and seen that he has shaved off his beard?

strangesituation · 13/02/2008 13:17

Jeez CD - please don't. I thought it was sorted and now you are putting other ideas in my head.

No, I haven't seen J for a while but I know he had a blondeish goatee. I didn't mention the word pubes to DH, I just said I was interested as to where he had got the hair from seeing as neither of us are blonde, and also where had the other hair come from. He volunteered the information about the bin clippings without being prompted and also about the hair from "J".

Please don't get me thinking about blonde ladygardens again......

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lucykate · 13/02/2008 13:26

both my dh and i are 'arty' types, have you asked your dh where he got the idea from to do this?, would love to know what it was that inspired him to create a hairy umbrella!

UnquietDad · 13/02/2008 13:37

iamanartistiam:

So that would be for your work's Red Period?

CountessDracula · 13/02/2008 14:40

oh sorry

It just sounds so...unlikely!
I have never once known my dh to shave while anyone is round here!

donnie · 13/02/2008 14:48

oh this is clearly a wind up.

marina · 13/02/2008 14:49

Glad it's all resolved but tbh, like Blu, I am a bit surprised in this age of defrosted heads made of blood, Jake & Dinos Chapman & co, that you felt so ashamed of this that you name-changed.
It's pretty funny IMO but not that weird
Loved "Pubist Period"

Wisteria · 13/02/2008 15:51

I'm stil PMSL over pubegate

madamez · 13/02/2008 18:13

Oh, other artist who wants mooncup-filling - you're not original either, loads of women artists have done the painting-with-menstrual-blood. ANd there was the bloke who stuck a crucifix in a bottle and pissed on it. And waaaaaaay back, there was a geezer who sold tins of (literaly) his own shit. As art. He was French.

iamanartistiam · 13/02/2008 18:20

oh, madamez, i dont believe i said i was being superoriginal. there is very little if anything in the artworld that hasne been done before. the point is to learn from what has been done before and perhaps expand on it, be inspired by it, question it.

in fact my original point was kind of 'LOTS of people do this, even a MNer!!!' not 'look at me being all wacky and original' therefore not shocking what OPs dh was doing with pubes (or not as it turns out!)

iamanartistiam · 13/02/2008 18:22

piero manzoni was the artist who did 'artists shit' btw if anyones interested/cares

Blu · 13/02/2008 19:21

Some of my panst are dyed with menstrual blood.
Am calling Nicolas Serota but keep getting his secretary. Drat!

madamez · 13/02/2008 23:47

I am thinking of performance art for my next venture. I think it would be a source of great creative inspiration and uplifting thoughts to many people if I went round to Tony Blair's and did a big shit on his head.
Hello? Mr Serota? Hello?

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