The things you find...

[Steve Maskery]

I'm tarting up my Laundry Room, which was originally the outside privy 113 years ago.

As well as finding a window, complete with glass, buried in the wall, I have also discovered that the room has, in its time, been white, lilac, turquoise and, most recently, boring magnolia.

I've also discovered as I come to have a bath, that my belly button is full of bits of brick and plaster dust.

I'm rather dreading taking off my underpants...

 

[marcros]

I've also discovered as I come to have a bath, that my belly button is full of bits of brick and plaster dust.

I'm rather dreading taking off my underpants...

strange bath that you are having if you are still wearing them...

 

[Rorschach]

I've also discovered as I come to have a bath, that my belly button is full of bits of brick and plaster dust.

I'm rather dreading taking off my underpants...

strange bath that you are having if you are still wearing them...

Well if he is doing up the laundry room he needs another method to do his washing :lol:

 

[NazNomad]

 

[Cheshirechappie]

Add a good squirt of washing up liquid to the bath water and give it a good swish around to generate some bubbles (I think we can agree that as good honest blokes we don't 'do' bubble bath, right?), then the 'unsee' button will not be required on removal of said underpants. Just be careful of any gritty bits that may be released.

 

[graduate_owner]

Sounds like a really good abrasive scrub is on the cards

K

 

[NazNomad]

Sounds like a really good abrasive scrub is on the cards

Any volunteers to operate the 80 grit ball-sander? :shock:

 

[Lons]

:shock: Information overload, please please no pics Steve.

 

[Steve Maskery]

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[Lons]

Strange looking belly button Steve. :wink:

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

that's breakfast over with then!

 

[Steve Maskery]

I've found two more shades of green this morning.

 

[Geoff_S]

I've found two more shades of green this morning.

Let us know when you hit 50 :wink:

 

[Cheshirechappie]

I've found two more shades of green this morning.

I'd change your tailor, if I were you. Or possibly seek medical advice.

 

[Jonzjob]

I'm going to watch this thread. It might be quite interesting in a twisted sort of way :shock:

But it does remind me of a situation in our last U.K. house. An old Cotswold stone cottage that was half of what were 4 farm workers cottages on the side of a valley in Stroud. SWMBO wanted a small fish/wild life pond in the garden and being handy with a spade/fork/pick axe she started digging it. An hour or so later she came in to my workshop to tell me she had found what looked like a couple railway sleepers a few feet down? I went out to have a look and there was a gap between them. So I got a 4' or so strip of wood to poke down the gap, it didn't reach the bottom! So we uncovered several of these sleepers and lifted one of the badly rotted things out. What we found was a dammed great hole, brick lined, about 6 x 6 x 6' !

It had been the original septic tank for the old cottages. The cowboys who had done the conversion hadn't bothered to fill it in when they put the new tank in further down the garden, they had just covered it over with the sleepers. When we found it it was near the point of collapse! Luckily enough we were friends with a builder just down the lane and he was looking for somewhere to get rid of a load of spoil, so the hole was filled in. It would have been a hell of a surprise for someone if they had vanished into it!

I can imagine the circumstance of hubbie seeing the wife in the hole and asking why she had made it so big just to plant a small rose bush :lol: :lol:

 

[Lons]

I can imagine the circumstance of hubbie seeing the wife in the hole and asking why she had made it so big just to plant a small rose bush :lol: :lol:

Especially if the life insurance policies were being thumbed through in the preceding days. :wink: :shock:

 

[Steve Maskery]

I wrote in to iPM with this little tale and they read it out on Saturday under Your News

 

[Roxie]

Thought I recognised the story when I heard it, 5 minutes of fame!!

John

 

[Myfordman]

....5 minutes of fame!!

John

Not for the first time either IIRC Steve?

 

[Rorschach]

I'm going to watch this thread. It might be quite interesting in a twisted sort of way :shock:

But it does remind me of a situation in our last U.K. house. An old Cotswold stone cottage that was half of what were 4 farm workers cottages on the side of a valley in Stroud. SWMBO wanted a small fish/wild life pond in the garden and being handy with a spade/fork/pick axe she started digging it. An hour or so later she came in to my workshop to tell me she had found what looked like a couple railway sleepers a few feet down? I went out to have a look and there was a gap between them. So I got a 4' or so strip of wood to poke down the gap, it didn't reach the bottom! So we uncovered several of these sleepers and lifted one of the badly rotted things out. What we found was a dammed great hole, brick lined, about 6 x 6 x 6' !

It had been the original septic tank for the old cottages. The cowboys who had done the conversion hadn't bothered to fill it in when they put the new tank in further down the garden, they had just covered it over with the sleepers. When we found it it was near the point of collapse! Luckily enough we were friends with a builder just down the lane and he was looking for somewhere to get rid of a load of spoil, so the hole was filled in. It would have been a hell of a surprise for someone if they had vanished into it!

I can imagine the circumstance of hubbie seeing the wife in the hole and asking why she had made it so big just to plant a small rose bush :lol: :lol:

You missed a trick there, ready dug and lined pond/swimming pool!