Workers help people with learning disabilities to wash themselves, carry out household duties as well as taking them out shopping and on activities.

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During the next few weeks men all over the planet will regress to traditional patterns of behaviour, slumping in front of their television sets, neglecting their household duties.

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And a survey of 288 husbands, reported in Neil Chethik's 2006 book "VoiceMale, " linked a wife's satisfaction with the division of household duties with her husband's satisfaction with their sex life.

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The bill replaces four existing funding streams paid to the Royal Household to support the Queen in her official duties with a single grant.

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Both sides admitted he was a demonic and depraved creature but his wife's barrister, Richard Ferguson QC, sought to paint a picture of a household where the wife carried on her domestic duties blissfully unaware of her husband's debauchery.

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In 2008, he was assigned to Hounslow, West London, and became "an integral member of the Corps of Drums throughout the Battalion's time on public duties, the highlight of which was being a part of the Household Division's Beating the Retreat -- a real honour for a line infantry Corps of Drums, " the ministry said.

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Unlike almost any other country, Russia levies import duties sometimes to the tune of several thousand dollars on ordinary household removals.

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