Flushed with success!

The reason I chose the title above is that two things of interest happened to me yesterday.

The first was, I listened to the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2 that had the subject of toilets, more specifically, how to clean yourself after you have finished. The old addage "The jobs never completed until the paperwork is done!" certainly fits this subject perfectly.

I discovered that it is mainly British and American people who use toilet paper to clean themselves. Muslims, and a large proportion of the rest of the world, tend to wash themselves afterwards! In France, the Bidet is commonplace on most dwellings, but in the UK with very little space allocated to bathrooms, there is seldom enough space to have both a toilet and a Bidet.

I decided to investigate a little bit further, and discovered a company that provides a custom built toilet that washes and dries you after you've done the business. It is even self cleaning, as it has a reservoir of disinfectant too! I then looked to see how much one of these super dooper toilets would cost.... that's when my excitement got flushed down the pan, you have to stump up over £2000 for this toilet! I am not even going to attempt to try and work out how many toilet rolls £2000 would buy, or how long it would take to use them all! So I think it will take a long time before the UK wakes up to the more hygenic and comfortable way of going to the toilet.

The other success I had yesterday, was successfully persuading my wife to play a new board game. The game we played was called Cashflow. It was a very close game, and ultimately it was simply a throw of the dice which determined who won the game (me this time)! Hopefully we will be playing this game a few more times over the next few months.