My dad was like that........very old school. He didn't even know how to turn the washing machine on. I think men in his time were hard workers and provided the wage, but the wife was for looking after kids, cooking, cleaning, etc.
My Mum was the type of person who cannot cope with someone else in the kitchen when she was cooking
She was a brilliant cook - just stay out of the way!!!
My wife can confirm that I am the same - I can cope with the grand daughter helping - but NOT my wife
or any other adult
anyway - as a result I never saw my Dad cook growing up
one year - not sure when but I was still at Primary School - she went away for a long weekend to see the tulips, in Holland, with her friends
SO it was just me and my Dad
I remember lunch time coming round and asking my Dad how we could have lunch when Mum was not here to cook (I was a boy and so very interested in where the next food was coming from!!!)
He found it very funny - but reassure me that he could cook perfectly - and while he was cooking he told me lots of stories about Scout camps when he was younger
Including a International Scout Jamboree in Holland (by coincidence) in the 1930s
I remember that first lunch we had bacon - not sure what else but I remember that
We were fine when Mum came back
I told this story to Mum when I was older and she said she was never worried - she knew my Dad could cook and do everything else
I just never saw him doing it at that age!
