Saturday (Part 2)

An hour later, and she was prodding me awake again. "Thought I'd give you a poke and see if you wanted to get up yet."
"Thanks. I probably will try to move now." She still seemed cheery. "Making progress with the cleaning then?"
"Yep! Finished in the kitchen. Might try to tidy up the cupboard under the sink."
"Oh - You might want to leave that for now. I had been thinking I'd try to fix that tap today."
"Hm. How're you going to do that?" she said, in an almost 'accusational' way.
"...Well, for one thing, I bought a selection of washers a few weeks ago. I also found out some more about replacing the innards," I told her, slightly confused as to why she was even asking, "Why do you ask?"
"Well. You don't know anything about plumbing."
Yeah, thanks for that. That's ignoring changing the tap heads on the kitchen taps, the innards of the hot kitchen tap, and the hours I spent replacing the whole ballcock and valve in the cold water tank. The problem with the kitchen cold tap is that it's different to the hot one, and, as I found last time, doesn't use a standard size washer, and other bits were odd sizes.
I don't know, perhaps I'm just getting more wound up by the small things, but that all just made me feel really irritated.

Anyway, I got dressed and went downstairs. I said I wanted to try to fix the tap today, and reminded her of what I had done before. Anyway, she probably said something like "Fine then, fix the tap". I had some breakfast. She continued to do something in the kitchen. I finished breakfast. She went upstairs to work on the bathroom.
"Right then! Let's get a look at that tap while I won't be in her way."
Only to find out she'd set the washing machine off. Probably not a good idea to turn the water off. Sigh. Oh well.
By the time the washing finished, the football was about to start, so I gave up on the tap (Three minute goal was nice surprise - thought we played well the first half, second half was disappointing).
When the football had finished, I really wanted for us to go outside and do something. It was such a glorious day. As usual, when I asked her, I got the usual "I... don't mind". More probing got a "Well, not specifically, but if you want to, then I don't want to be the one who says let's stay in."
Ok, so we agreed to go out. The next question was where. I find it so hard to believe she's lived her all her life and never has any idea where you could go for a walk.
Eventually, I said I'd just drive somewhere where there seemed to be a lot of space and see if we could find somewhere to stop and have a wander. Well, I drove about in a big figure-of-eight and we didn't end up stopping anywhere. She seemed bored for the first half, but seemed better during the second. Did go through some small roads and up some steep hills, with some pretty light dabbling through the trees and that sort of thing.

Didn't get any thanks for my efforts though ;)