Do you get away with this in the dining room

Our dining room is solely used for dining. Any crap on the table would cause words from swmbo which I would not like to hear. Grandchildren are allowed to paint at the kitchen table, but I don't think I would be allowed to.
 
Mrs Gogo said:
My dining room table is in the far right corner (or at least I think it is...) 😁 at least the pile of 6 new race tyres have gone...

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Think we might be related 🤣 but it's my 'snug' that looks like that full of stuff out the motorhome and Dobbie, an electric exercise bike (broken) and everything else that wont fit in the garage
 
I built two mirror dinghy's at the same time one in the kitchen and the other in our lounge, not so uncouth as to use a table. I made a set of trestles at the perfect height.
Amazing how quickly you can get a job completed with lots of encouragement for your lovely wife :unsure::unsure:
 
My entire workshop including the lathe lived in the dining room whilst I was waiting for the new shed to arrive.
For twelve months it was storage for our sons and later daughters furniture and belongings until they moved into their own houses.
The kitchen stools we inherited from mother in law have saw marks on them from father in law’s carpentry skills. They bough him one of the first Black and Decker Workmates to save the stools. I still have the Workmate.

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I remember when we were not long together and skint. The car needed major work to keep it going longer. I was outside one bitterly cold winter night working on changing a head gasket and the mrs calls me to work inside in the warm. She had put newspaper on the kitchen table and helped me clean up the head ready to refit. The oily mess went straight through the paper, but no complaints. I worked on it till midnight before washing up and going to bed. Next morning up shower and off to work. Came home to find all my tools cleaned up and put neatly back on the table with new newspaper and a lovely clean head ready to refit. She had got stuck in and worked on it after doing the housework. I thought at the time that she was a keeper.

These days, only clean jobs in the house, but had no objections to having tool bags in the spare bedroom for a few months when I had to pause work due to being to rough to finish the fitted wardrobes. If anything she was always the most untidy out of both of us and I am slowly digging through the clutter in various rooms. Much easier since she left
 
As a boy we lived in a two up, two down terrace. No dining room for us and no garage nor shed for dad’s motorcycle (BSA Bantam). One evening he brought it in to the kitchen, removed the engine, fitted new big end, rebuilt it and checked that it ran ok before taking it outside. (2-stroke engine so plenty of smoke)

It was Xmas Eve!

Then he iced the cake.

One Saturday lunchtime mum came back from work to discover that he had knocked down the pantry wall, but without clearing away the plates, pans and leftovers from the previous night.

Thank goodness that they loved each other!

Gordon
 
1968 Norton commander the chain needed to be linklifed so put it on my mums cooker with the chain sat on top waited for it to heat up ,all going well I thought then knocked it off the cooker onto the kitchen floor ,it instantly solidified just as y mum walked in ,took ages to scrape off.kitchen quarry tiles never looked the same again.

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A friend of my fathers stripped and boxed up his Vincent Black Shadow in our living room to ship it to were he was working abroad. Dad rolled the carpet back but there was always a stain on floor boards.
 
Flairy said:
1968 Norton commander the chain needed to be linklifed so put it on my mums cooker with the chain sat on top waited for it to heat up ,all going well I thought then knocked it off the cooker onto the kitchen floor ,it instantly solidified just as y mum walked in ,took ages to scrape off.kitchen quarry tiles never looked the same again.
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Brilliant. I did that except I also knocked it all over the cooker. It clogged up the gas jets a treat. I thought I was unique so it’s good to know there are other inept teenagers.
 
I love all these tales. Back in the late 60s when I was an apprentice there was a guy where I worked who was mad on motorbikes. The story was that he needed to do a big job on his bike, So he cut the dining table in half length ways, and screwed it to the wall to make a bench to work on. I had no reason not to believe it. He was nicknamed greasy Burt.

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It smells like a brewery
Yes my love but it is a brewery.
After our honeymoon the imp Head had to come off with a bit of advice she had it of and in the kitchen no problem. 3 new valves and all ground in far better than I could have achieved like TheBig1 i decided this was a keeper. Couple of weeks later she had the commando head off and ground those valves in as well. In those days part of the Nursery nurse course nneb in Lincoln included a module on car maintenance.
By the way 3 days before wedding i broke my hand and was in plaster for 12 weeks ( longer than normal). I waited till 2nd son before botthering to learn to drive. She was/is the perfect chaufer. (doesnt like wearing the cap tho)
 
No need to. My 'girlfriend' bought a bigger home so I can have (almost) big enough playroom :cool:
 
I understand from my mum that the car in my avatar was actually stored in bits in the house, perfectly feasible for all the panels, interior, engine suspension etc could have been but I often wonder whether this included the chassis? one of those questions I wish I had asked.
 

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