Hum, her indoors had never been overly keen on my other love interest, jealousy is an evil mistress, but over the years a grudging respect has built up.
I long since gave up buying my wife flowers & other fripperies & she’s sanguine about that, but a storm cloud forms & the crackle of static electricity can be both heard & sensed, when an odd shaped, heavy, oily, usually rather poorly packed parcel arrived several days late & by a grinning Hermes delivery driver.
I have to remind her how close we were to owning a showman’s road locomotive & why the MG parts are easier to come by & much less expensive.
M