I have a secret shame…secret until now. I need to make this confession. I have a deep and irrational fear of tradies. Plumbers, electricians, gardeners, handymen…they all freak me out. I get all nervous around them and will do everything I can to avoid them. I usually leave it up to my partner R to phone them, and then deal with them when they come to our home. Maybe it’s just my own unrealistic expectations of what a bloke should be able to do. I’ll admit it, I’m hopeless around the house. I don’t know how to change washers or fix fuses, [...]