Bukky was busy giving the big bedroom a long overdue clean. She was running the vacuum cleaner over her husband’s side of the bed when the flex caught the corner of a partially opened drawer. It had been loose for months and Mati, her husband, hadn’t come round to fixing it yet.

Have you realized it’s when you are a bit low with a ‘there must be more to life than this’ feeling that fate deals you a really good hand? We recently got some training gadgets and I eyed the contraption suspiciously when the suppliers called.

LATELY, I’d been regaling CTB with tales of the escapades of some of my darling friends in recent months – especially in the last few weeks when a couple of them had virtually burnt their fingers with the spouses of their ‘bits-on-the-side.’

Shortly after Lilians 50th birthday, her step-daughter, Tonia, came visiting. She’s Rex’s first daughter and since Lilian’s marriage, Rex’s first three children took to her straightaway.

Most of the response I’ve got on this column gave a lot of kudos to Ini -my spunky happy-go-lucky friend. A lot of male readers would love to meet her and half of the women asked the same question her friends have always asked her! How does she get away with it?

If you believe that it’s only svelte women that grab all the good-looking men, leaving he unsavoury ones to fat women, you are wrong! More than ever before, women with more bounce-to-the-ounce, are being encouraged to flaunt what they have. All over the world, there have also been beauty pageants specially designed for volumptous women.

Okay, it’s all a joke. I know being a house-wife these days is not what it’s cracked up to be. I know it’s hard.,, hard work; so much so that a lot of women believe it should be given monetary value. Like a good ‘homemaker’, friend of mine puts it, “If a man didn’t have a handy wife to care for his children, do his laundry, cook his meals, clean his house and have sex with him, he’d have to pay someone else to do it”.

It’s inevitable that, no mater how passionate your relationship is, you have to cope with the dreaded infidelity. But have you noticed that infidelity has become a sort of ‘so-what’ as far as lovers are concerned?

Lusting over the opposite sex could be intoxicating. How far you can go in ‘netting’ the object of your affection could be as deranging as the worst of fevers.

The mystery about festive periods is that you never know what would turn up to make it a memorable event for you. Take the Ed-il-fitri festival for instance. You expect your Muslim friend not only to invite you for a Ram feast but to give you choice cuts of ram to take home; which was exactly what happened to me.

PETER was devastated when his doctor confirmed his worst fear – he had prostrate cancer. It could still be treated if he acted quickly. His wife, a nurse, made necessary enquiries and came up with the names of two respectable private hospitals who’d treated the disease successfully from time to time.

“Labi, her second choice, is a bit wet behind the ears. So what? He loves Joan with a passion and has a good job. She doesn’t love him because he wasn’t aggressive enough but I told her that was exactly the man she should get married to. He was also a British citizen which meant their children would automatically become British. What could be better than that? I reminded her that in life, there are some perks money can’t buy!”

He belonged to an evangelical church and sought the help of his pastor. He advised Henry to bring Gbemi to the church to stay a week, at least, for constant vigil and prayers so she could be weaned off alcohol. After arguing vehemently she wasn’t an alcoholic, Gbemi agreed to give the treatment a go to save her marriage. “After the one week,” Henry recalled, “she didn’t seem to be making much progress – she looked disorientated and I put it down to withdrawal symptoms.

An adult supposedly in love had already made up her mind about whom she chooses to be with, so telling anyone at all of her misgivings is a matter of information – not necessarily seeking their advice which may be what she didn’t want to hear.. So Angela got married and right from the start, stories of Rasheed’s indiscretions continued to make the rounds. After almost ten years, the marriage hit the rocks.

Philo is in her early thirties and a quite successful accountant. She has her own practice and a few men to give her the good time she said she deserved. “Last Christmas,” she began, “Larry and I went to his boss’s annual birthday bash.