DIY: Dad’s Irate Yelpe
Every now and again we see a handyman’s van whizzing busily around town. And quite often they’ll advertise their services along the lines of “Cleaning, carpentry, drains, DIY, repairs”. This is a bit weird when you think about it, because DIY means Do It Yourself, something you’re patently not doing if you pay someone else to do it! But we still sort of know what they mean. In the domestic setting it’s jobs that could be done much more successfully by professionals but that we all too often choose to do ourselves. Or, should we say, our dads choose to do themselves, anyway.
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