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Title: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Fowgill Farm on March 08, 2012, 12:29:29 pm: Don't know if this has been covered previously but noticed on other post someone reading the Northern Tools Catalogue, in our house this is one of the staples of the err downstairs facilty's library ;) :P
along with the Farmer's Weekly, Sporting Gun, Machine Mart catalogue and Auto Express.
Please note no ladies titles in there ;)
Whats in your bathromm 'library'?
Mandy :pig:
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: bloomer on March 08, 2012, 12:35:42 pm: see i prefer real books to catalogues etc so current bathroom library is HFW Fish book...
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: robert waddell on March 08, 2012, 12:46:22 pm: Mandy it is funny your oh being a builder that is there pastime or should i say waste of time there majority of bogs you want to spend the least amount of time in there the writing on the wall used to be very good :farmer:
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Fleecewife on March 08, 2012, 12:55:14 pm: The writing on the wall is the whole reason for going to that room, isn't it? gmail has a wonderful icon of a steaming pile with a couple of flies buzzing round it - would love that to be on here - highly appropriate ;D

A hundred years ago in my student days there was a little room down in the basement which had some lovely graffiti. One of my favourites was:
There was a young fellow from Hyde
Fell into a privy and died
Then later his brother
Fell into another
and now they're interred side-by-side

Another favourite was: Owing to instability of the foundations, tur#s weighing more than a pound to be lowered by hand.

As for the Loo Library, mine currently has an aeroplane mag, a steam train mag and a gardening mag, plus a couple of kindles from time to time, and numerous pairs of specs.
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Bert on March 08, 2012, 01:48:46 pm: I'm with bloomer on this one it has to be a book. at present its Lee Child's Worth Dying For.
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: deepinthewoods on March 08, 2012, 02:41:11 pm: jeremy clarksons 'round the bend'

itll end up round the u bend i should imagine.
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: robert waddell on March 08, 2012, 02:46:38 pm: what about phone box humour
i sing and dance and jump for joy
cos i was here before killroy that is the only one that is printable :P :farmer:
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Rosemary on March 08, 2012, 03:37:20 pm: How do you have time to read in the loo? ??? Eat more fibre ;D
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: plumseverywhere on March 08, 2012, 05:06:59 pm: whenever I have a birthday or xmas coming up, I always leave catalogues like the Joules one etc in the loo as I know Tony will pick it up and I keep my fingers crossed that the subliminal message will get across ;)

I left a goat book in there too from where I'd been reading in the bath and he actually said to me next day "ooh, those English goats actually look quite nice don't they?" - took me a while to work out where that had come from ;D
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Bangbang on March 08, 2012, 07:26:44 pm: The labels on the back of toiletries used to make desperate reading -then- joke books
now I have a Nintendo Wee. (sorry I ment D.S)

scrabbles great!
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: little blue on March 08, 2012, 08:25:57 pm: Quote from: Rosemary on March 08, 2012, 03:37:20 pm
How do you have time to read in the loo? ??? Eat more fibre ;D

I would say its the most privacy I get ...

... but with four cats, a german shepherd & a shameless husband, thats not really true! Frankie the kitten especially seems to think I can't manage by myself :D

I take whatever I happen to be reading, as all those mentioned above are apt to move things. ::)
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: plumseverywhere on March 08, 2012, 08:38:07 pm: I can't even nip to the loo for a wee without "muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum...." from one of them - aaaaaaagh
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Fleecewife on March 08, 2012, 11:22:56 pm: Quote from: Rosemary on March 08, 2012, 03:37:20 pm
How do you have time to read in the loo? ??? Eat more fibre ;D

That's why magazines are better than a book - articles of a variety of lengths to suit every eventuality ;D
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Sandy on March 09, 2012, 07:51:27 am: As we share the bathroom and toilet, I do not keep reading stuff in there and I am in and out quickly BUT, I love to clean my ears out with cotton buds while on the toilet, I did use to keep magazines near the loe but did not like the idea of "dirty" hands but it was travel stuff for the area.....I mostly read things on tinternet so if I did read in the loe apart from toiletry products to read I would take a Tablet :o
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: tizaala on March 09, 2012, 08:08:50 am: " Whatever has been cut up and hung on the nail..."
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Sandy on March 09, 2012, 08:40:37 am: THats just reminds me, the pups have all gone now but I used to put newspapers down for thier toilet and I would read while they went!!
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: smudger on March 09, 2012, 08:51:13 am: Quote from: deepinthewoods on March 08, 2012, 02:41:11 pm
jeremy clarksons 'round the bend'

itll end up round the u bend i should imagine.

And best place for him, I say (not that he isn't funny, but he has said everything a hundred times before...).

Weekend papers as never read them on the day and they last all week.
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: northfifeduckling on March 09, 2012, 09:46:41 am: A stack of Guardian and Observer weekend magazines, almost all of them opened on the gardening and cooking pages ;D I hate if if someone dares to change the page to make-up or fashion ??? :&>
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Sylvia on March 09, 2012, 01:09:41 pm: Quote from: tizaala on March 09, 2012, 08:08:50 am
" Whatever has been cut up and hung on the nail..."

I remember those days well ;D
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: robert waddell on March 09, 2012, 01:50:43 pm: and izla toilet paper it was better using sandpaper :farmer:
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Sandy on March 09, 2012, 05:45:31 pm: Arh Izal, ALL schools use to have that...why, all it did was spread the leftovers!!
made good comb mothorgans though ;)
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: robert waddell on March 09, 2012, 06:00:32 pm: betore or after you used them ;D :farmer:
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: feldar on March 09, 2012, 06:24:40 pm: We have his and hers loos, i've banned OH from the upstairs loo so that has country living and gardening mags in and his has the Farmers Guardian and farmers weekly in it
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: Sandy on March 09, 2012, 06:35:38 pm: Before and I used to take some home for tracing paper......Oh we must have been poor!!!
Title: Re: Err..Bathroom Reading
Post by: bazzais on March 10, 2012, 06:30:59 am: I dont need more fibre - I just read one of the OHs hello magazines and the action is involuntary through boredom.

Baz