Plenty of bogs in Ireland Dave. I've been known to use a dock leaf in an emergency. We've grown soft - everyone wants three-layered soft textured bog paper. No wonder the sewers are blocked.
In the early years of the 2000s I visited a kind of ‘stately home’ in Slovakia to look at the gardens. During our walk we cam across a pavilion containing toilets. There was a man standing at the front of the building with single sheets of toilet paper on a table. Customers paid with a coin and were limited to one sheet! It works. The toilets were spotless.
You can bet the unbleached toilet paper didn’t originate thousands of miles away. One time a large truck from Turkey crashed on a motorway roundabout near the city of Linz on the Danube and its load spilled out. Toilet rolls en route to the north. Prague or Berlin or somewhere up there. Is this madness or what!
In Siberia the toilet attendants in railway stations issued 1 sheet of toilet paper when you paid 1 rouble and the toilets were a hole in the floor. It actually felt more hygienic than a normal toilet. I was happy with that. They were clean, every toilet block had attendant cleaner.
I wonder why we don't all have bidets Gwil? Remember outside toilets and newspaper toilet roll😀?
ReplyDeletePlenty of bogs in Ireland Dave. I've been known to use a dock leaf in an emergency. We've grown soft - everyone wants three-layered soft textured bog paper. No wonder the sewers are blocked.
DeleteI blame that puppy that used to be on tv playing with a toilet roll
DeleteNorthsider - when I was a child we always used newspaper neatly cut into squares and hung on a hook in our outside loo.
ReplyDeleteGwil I like your economy of line which befits the one square per person.
In the early years of the 2000s I visited a kind of ‘stately home’ in Slovakia to look at the gardens. During our walk we cam across a pavilion containing toilets. There was a man standing at the front of the building with single sheets of toilet paper on a table. Customers paid with a coin and were limited to one sheet!
DeleteIt works. The toilets were spotless.
You can bet the unbleached toilet paper didn’t originate thousands of miles away. One time a large truck from Turkey crashed on a motorway roundabout near the city of Linz on the Danube and its load spilled out. Toilet rolls en route to the north. Prague or Berlin or somewhere up there. Is this madness or what!
DeleteIn Siberia the toilet attendants in railway stations issued 1 sheet of toilet paper when you paid 1 rouble and the toilets were a hole in the floor. It actually felt more hygienic than a normal toilet. I was happy with that. They were clean, every toilet block had attendant cleaner.
ReplyDeleteIt’s still quite common to find cleaning ladies hovering in toilets with a little basket for loose change
DeleteIn Austria the toilets in Cafés and Restaurants are invariably in the basement. I’ve no idea why that is.
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