Nothing infuriates me more...

[funnymummy]

I'm a naturalised Yorkshireman, not born and bred, so it's no use appealing to my baser instincts with sheep motifs......

Derbyshire born n bred here, although now an 'honorary' Southerner - We likes 'sheeps' in Derbyshire

 

[Cubist]

Now there's a magnificent creature. Proudly referred to in its native city as the Derby Ram, yet known across Yorkshire as an "owd tupp".

 

[Cubist]

I now have an odd image of Cubist in a pink nightie with sheep on and his uniform hat on reporting for the early shift down at the station.

You've been spying on me again, haven't you!

 

[Fiona N]

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Can't do plastering though, some people are just good at that and other's can't get the knack of it.
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I'm a born plasterer - I shocked my much more DIY-trained sister (she used to earn a living renovating people's houses) by being able to plaster a wall of our Mum's house flawlessly first go. She thought I'd snuck a real plasterer in to do the job I find it very satisfying that I find excuses to plaster bits of wall at home (sadly, they then need painting which I really don't like )

 

[Red Light]

If you do plumbing you'll soon realise that for the simple stuff you don't need a big brain; you just need common sense. Of course I would never attempt to replace a boiler or anything complex but stuff like copper pipes, wastes, traps, valves etc. are designed to be easy to use.

You need a big brain though to work out how you are supposed to bodge it. I was fitting a bath. The trap the builders merchant gave me wouldn't do up anywhere near tight enough because there was not enough thread on the waste. Took both bits back and explained the problem and the old guy behind the counter looked at me as if I were some sort of blithering idiot and told me I was supposed to saw the plastic nut on the trap in half horizontally so it didn't bottom out. Seems quite common in my experience that rather than make pieces that fit together, plumbing manufactures make pieces that specifically don't and expect you to bodge them together. Which is why they sell all sorts of things like PTFE tape, plumber's hemp and Boss White to fill the gaps in the bodges.