Banned from workshop.

Wife has banned me from my workshop whilst she is in the maternity unit expecting our first, on the grounds of me not being able to hear the phone ringing over the noise of my lathe...is this legal??

Fiz

Not only legal, but I believe there is a European Directive making it compulsory!.

Only way round it is to get a cordless 'phone you can keep in your pocket (and the vibrations are quite pleasant).

Tell her not to worry, and you'll listen out for the doorbell for when she gets home...

Take the lathe upstairs, then you can turn in your sleep.

OK I'll get me coat...................

Move the lathe into the house while she's away

the kitchen is best because you can make a sanny and a cuppa when you take a break

thanks chapt..its helping break the tension if nothing else!!

When My wife was in Hospital having our number one, I took the opportunity to paint the frame of a trailer which i had just bought, on the kitchen table. Luckily it was only 7' x 5' !! Just sold it after 34 years, it certainly pays to get a decent coat of primer on metal work under optimum conditions.

Frank

This is an opportunity to buy all those tools and casting sets and get them delivered whilst she is not around to complain about the cost . Then when she comes home she is unlikely to have the time to go rummaging... in a few years (when you also get time to return to the workshop) you can look innocent and claim "ho those... I have had them for years".

Jo

Why not go for a home birth, your sure to hear her shouting and cursing even over the noisiest of lathes . Seriously,all the best.

My wife still reminds me of her disappointment 40 years ago when she came home with our first baby and found that the "surprise" that awaited her and about which I was clearly rather pleased was not a decorated baby's nursery but a cold frame made out of discarded hospital bedside lockers. The "bloke" in me took some time to comprehend her lack of enthusiasm and initially put it down to "hormones". Phil. PS - how does one insert carriage returns?

Fizzy

The best thing you can do now is get LOTS of sleep. In my experience it may be some time before get any more!

N

It will be a very long time before you get any sleep, much longer until you will have spare cash. Me and heavily pregnant wife moved into new house, no furniture. Advert for second hand gas cooker in local paper, so was sent to buy it. The chap had a lathe for sale as well, that was my first lathe and child, but not the last row.

my phone only works for texts downstairs, so when on my tod I have to either read my old MEs in bed, or get up and go into the workshop to get a good signal

All best wishes for the little 'un. Too late to blow all your cash on workshop essentials, just have some kip and look forward to two years without sleep and twenty five+ without cash....

Neil

First? Good on yer mate. Had my first at 40 and #2 at 44. Sleepless nights, no time of my own for motorbikes or engineering, had to leave work today as firstborn (now 8) felt sick at school

Wouldn't change it for the world though

During labour I was rushing to secure a pair of bike wheels that I feared would sell if I waited any longer.

two years without sleep and twenty five+ without cash....

My only child was Thirty when she finally moved out so that was thirty years without cash and thirty years of sleepless nights but now its payback time as we have our own personal taxi service well done Fizzy, just remember you will now spend the first six months getting him/her to walk and talk and the rest of their life gettig the to shut up and sit down

Martin P

I bought a set of front forks and a wheel wth the maternity grant, isn't that what it's for ?

The really expensive bit comes when grandchildren are in early 20s, Granddaughter is getting married next year and it is Grandad would you help us buy a flat!!. The boys are not to bad it is a new motorbike or car. Ah well.
Fizzy as have said in a previous thread, I am sure all will go well, keep all of us posted

Bob

been 36 hours, no sleep and no sign of a baby yet...I could have completed my cylinder set in less time!!

Oh yep

That's another thing - you will spend large chunks of your life waiting for them - and even larger chunks worrying about them. Like John though I wouldn't change a thing.

I am slightly disturbed by Bob's remarks though - my eldest Grandbrat is just 13 so I'm safe for a bit but I hadn't factored in the housing assistance angle. Youve quite put me off my cocoa !

Norman