I have never made any bones about my lack of skill and interest in Do-it-Yourself.
In one of my first flats in Dublin I broke right through the wall into the flat next door while attempting to attach, to that wall, a set of bookshelves.
I have frequently said to my wife that I would work in a kitchen for several hours/days to earn the money to pay a carpenter/plumber/electrician rather than attempt to do-it-myself.
Because of this I am reassured rather than affronted by a quotation from Hilaire Belloc (a Frenchman who masqueraded as an Englishman), who said:
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
I make a terrific omelette.
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Donal Moore
on February 17, 2010Remember, you can’t make an omelette without boiling eggs!
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