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Kathy Lette

'DIY and humiliation go hand-in-hand' confesses our columnist Kathy Lette

A composite image of Kathy Lette and a woman with a fuse box.

DIY should really be renamed DYI – Do Yourself In. I speak from painful personal experience. Like many women who grew up with capable dads, I never learnt my way around a toolbox. I call every gadget a ‘thingy’. My only DIY procedure is the highly technical art of whacking any electronic device until it works again.

Thank goodness wine bottles have twist tops because sometimes even a corkscrew is beyond me.

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