My family had a get-together today.

Tom refused to come.

He said he wasn’t prepared to go and be judged by my family after what happened, especially as he feels that he was goaded into it.

As he was staying home, I asked him if he would hang the washing on the line to dry, and then put another load on, to which he replied, “What?! You want me to do all your jobs as well as go out to work. No, I bloody won’t.”

And he didn’t.