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• Liz: So, do you do much DIY?
• Cheryl: I don’t, my husband does. We bought a house, and it was not a house you could live in. We had to replace all of the electricity, and plumbing, and so he’s learned a lot. The thing I learned is I don’t like DIY as much as I thought I would.
• Lyndon: I can only do simple things, really, really simple things. Just about the most difficult thing I’ve ever done is put up a shelf, but apart from that, I can just about wire a plug I think. I don’t know if there is anything…
• Liz: I can wire a plug. We put up some shelves, it took all day, and I nearly killed Florent.
• Cheryl: How… Who in your families puts together stuff from Ikea?
• Lyndon: Oh that’s me! I’m good at that, but for me that’s not DIY, it’s like technical drawing or something. It’s another skill entirely!
• Cheryl: True!
• Liz: I can do that, that’s fine! I’m okay with things that are fiddley and my partner would break those, and he’s good at jobs that need lots of physical force and not much accuracy, like smashing down walls – that’s his forte!
• Cheryl: That was the most fun part of the whole thing with our house was taking a sledgehammer to a PISE wall and just smashing it down.
• Liz: So, you’re the wall smasher!
• Cheryl: My son! He loved that!
• Lyndon: Destroy!
• Liz: Destroy! Destroy! Cheryl the destroyer!

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