Cathy you are right about pretending to be incapable, my hubby has been doing this all our married life re the iron, washing machine, cleaning toilets, loading dishwasher, hoovering and the list goes on and on and on
. This is a whole other thread
He had a good idea or so he thought a couple of months back re our new water feature, its a large silver sphere with water cascading from a hole at the top and running around till it hits the ground. We had argued over what should surround said sphere and after if going on for days
I relented and let him put him masterplan into place. He turned up following day with turf from B & Q and proceeded to cut this around the feature, despite me telling him it was crappe and how was he going to cut it,
he carried on, all the while I'm thinking thats coming out
. Move on 2 weeks and him on his hands and knees cutting said grass with scissors, me rolling on floor laughing
. He went climbing the next weekend, so I ripped up the turf and put some paddlestones and lime green hakonechloa into place, he agreed when he got back 100% looked better
. Moral of the story stick to what you are good at, my hubby is great at DIY and I do the gardening, he is entitled to his opinions on our garden but I choose from now on to ignore him
I'm sure I was female the last time I looked 
