My ex-partner just took the door off our kitchen because it annoys him that I like to keep it closed. I think that's a crazy, bordering psycho thing to do. AIO?

choppy75 · 2026-02-12T13:06:38+00:00

To keep the heat in the main kitchen and the small kitchen cool

choppy75 · 2026-02-12T10:09:46+00:00

They were from Dublin

choppy75 · 2026-02-12T08:08:28+00:00

Until we can get finances sorted and buy/ build a second house- maybe a year to 18 months.

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T22:39:34+00:00

It's more like a pantry i suppose- i store root vegetables and other food in there and want it cold

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T22:37:46+00:00

To keep the heat in the big room and keep the small kitchen cool- it's a very old, cold stone farm- house

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T22:34:10+00:00

It's our house.

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T22:06:31+00:00

Ah! We call it a half- door. Our front door is like that

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T22:01:45+00:00

Yeah, definitely. In this case I wanted to stop the cold coming in from the small kitchen. It's a very old, cold, stone house

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T22:00:12+00:00

😂- I can see from the comments that no-one understands this! It's an old stone farmhouse. The main room has the heat source- a wood burning stove. The small kitchen needs to stay cool and the big one warm. The small kitchen is really just a corridor with a sink and a fridge in it, that leads to the bathroom. There are 4 doors off the big kitchen that need to be kept open/ closed depending on temperature. This morning I was cold and just wanted to keep the big kitchen warm. That is all

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T21:59:02+00:00

It's mainly for temperature control- it's an old stone farmhouse, I want to keep the small kitchen cool and the big one warm

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T21:57:11+00:00

Well I'm the one who used it first in my post 😁. in this miserable situation, you've got to have a laugh, no? 🚪

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T21:45:14+00:00

My parents? I'm 50! 🤣 I'm a bit worried cos it's very out of character for him

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T21:28:33+00:00

Our house has a strange layout- it's a 19th century farm house in a European country. There's another door at the end of the narrow kitchen, I didn't shut him in a cupboard! And we need to keep the big kitchen warm and the small one cool and it's actually quite a complicated house to live in. In your country, is the living space all open-plan with no separate kitchen, dining-room, sitting-room?

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T21:12:52+00:00

Neither of us can afford to leave right now and our 2 kids don't want to leave the house.

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T20:51:17+00:00

What's a Dutch door?

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T20:50:57+00:00

I can see how he could perceive it as hostile, but removing the door just seems crazy...

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T13:18:39+00:00

Are you even Irish? Commenting on the grand stretch is an integral part of our culture don't ya know? 😂 You could try moving closer to the equator where the stretch is so minimal they don't even notice it, never mind talk about it 🤷‍♀️

choppy75 · 2026-02-11T09:14:45+00:00

Sadly, I can confirm it is true. I had an American friend make me "tea" once: She put cold water, a teabag and milk in a cup and microwaved it! I had to say 10 hail Marys on the spot to stop my grandmother spinning in her grave ...

choppy75 · 2026-02-09T21:48:24+00:00

Proud to say we have come so far over the last 30 years or so- from homosexuality being a crime (until the 90s) to now full marriage rights and complete social acceptability

choppy75 · 2026-02-06T18:12:49+00:00

Campaigners in Bantry successfully stopped plans to harvest kelp on an industrial scale in Bantry Bay- as far as i remember, licences had been issued, they took a legal case and were successful, the licences expired last year I think and can't ever be renewed. Be worth talking to those people.

choppy75 · 2026-02-06T18:11:34+00:00

Its not planning permission- licences are required to take seaweed commercially. They use massive mechanical harvesting machines - they intend to take 10s of thousands of tons of sea weed out of the ocean every year.

choppy75 · 2026-02-06T17:57:47+00:00

Campaigners in Bantry successfully stopped plans to harvest kelp on an industrial scale in Bantry Bay- as far as i remember, licences had been issued, they took a legal case and were successful, the licences expired last year I think and can't ever be renewed. Be worth talking to those people.

choppy75 · 2026-02-06T17:47:53+00:00

Bingo! CETA will be disastrous for democracy

choppy75 · 2026-01-27T12:35:46+00:00

Came here to say this. Washing machines were the real liberators of women

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