My mate is in for a right DIY bollocking

[ARWadsworth]

His wife had their first child today and he had taken a week off work. It seems to be the norm now that a man gets a week off work when his partner has a baby.

Anyway, he has borrowed my cement mixer and ordered a load of ballast and cement from the merchants as he intends to use the week off work to put up a new shed. Like he says, she's breast feeding so he cannot really help with the baby so he might as well do something usefull instead.

I can see an argument tommorrow when the delivery lorry arrives.

[Ronald Raygun]

A lorry to deliver a baby seems overkill.

[Bill]

In message , ARWadsworth writes

I like his style, I would do the same. Fortunately for me we are past the age for having babies.

Best of luck to him, please let us know the outcome.

[geoff]

The stork was on paternity leave ...

[Owain]

If he'd had a shed nine months ago then they might not be in this mess now.

Owain

[zaax]

Why can she give a hand now she has had the baby? The baby will be sleeping and she needs the excerise to get over the birth.

[Nightjar]

If it isn't, follow the example of pre-war farm workers who needed to be working at harvest time - put rum soaked sugar in a twist of cloth and give it to the kid to suck. Placing it under a hedge is optional.

Colin Bignell

[Tim Streater]

Ah, Baby Laudanum! I always wondered if there might be a market for that.

[John Stumbles]

;-)

[ARWadsworth]

She has cheered up a bit as he has laid a base for a summer house as well. The actual summer house construction is on the things to do list and he is actually wanting two sheds.

I declined the offer to watch a video of the birth and he never offered to to show me the video of the conception.

[Tim Streater]

This is a Mr Jackson is it?

[tony sayer]

In article , Tim Streater scribeth thus

Is that episode online anywhere;?.. Me and a mate of mine of that name still have the two sheds joke as he still has two absolutely ancient sheds;!..

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