A woman has been fined for assaulting her husband - by throwing toast at him and smearing butter on his face.
Julie Evans, 45, admitted grabbing a handful of Clover and rubbing it over him during a breakfast bust-up over their crumbling marriage.
She also admitted assault by pouring water on husband James as he slept the previous day.
But she was cleared of actual bodily harm by splitting his ear and leaving him needing 13 stitches following the toast and butter attack.
A court heard how the incidents came last July as the couple's marriage ended after 15 years together.
James, a 40 year-old project manager, told magistrates: "I came into the kitchen for breakfast and said 'good morning'.
"She threw the toast at me. It hit me in the chest and fell off.
"I laughed so she grabbed a handful of butter and smeared it all over my face.
"I tried to rub the butter on her back to make her laugh. I tried to make it playful.
"I went to get the butter out my hair when she grabbed me by the throat she was choking me."
He added that he put his hand under his wife's chin to make her let go.
He said he thought she was tugging his hair but could not tell because he has multiple sclerosis which affects his sense of touch.
He continued: "She reached behind me to get a cup off the shelf and tried to hit me over the head.
"I stopped her. Somehow she ended up on the floor.
"My leg twitched because of the MS and I think I caught her with my foot."
At this point the couple's 14-year-old daughter entered the kitchen of the house in Drybrook, nr Cinderford, and Mr Evans noticed blood on the floor.
"I went to the bathroom upstairs to wash the butter off my face and noticed my ear was flapping in the wind. It was in two halves and hanging on by the skin," Mr Evans said.
"I don't know how it got like that. I can't remember."
