JUST IN CASE YOU HAVE TIME FOR THIS CRAP

 Yesterday The Old Girl and I drove into town to look at toilets.

Not these although they are pretty amazing but are in Kawakawa.

Hundertwasser toilets Kawakawa

No, we went shopping in Plumbing World and Bunnings.

The Old Girl has decided that the perfectly functional and adequate toilet we have in the main bathroom is past it and needs replacement. This could be an allegory of me of course*.

We first went to Plumbing World and looked at 'crappers'** that ranged from a special price of about $600 through to some sort of luxury model at several thousand dollars.

The luxury one

This fancy- pants (or fancy no-pants) one had some special features along with the whopping price tag.

Take note of the control that in addition to the bidet function has an enema function. Yoicks!

The bottom (pun intended) image shows the nozzle that's going to do the deed. I'm sure that Richard will want one of these for his birthday.

Plumbing World store is very large and we were left alone in the showroom for ..... well, for too long according to The Old Girl. She went off to find an assistant and stormed back, grabbing my arm and said "We're leaving". Apparently the shop assistant she found was on her own dealing with lots of people and told her that they were short of staff and had no-one in the show-room. We were off which I was secretly glad of having seen their prices and went to Bunnings.

The Bunnings selection was mediocre and the offerings cheap and cheap-looking. We left there without making a purchase.

On the way home I steered the conversation around to the likelihood of a world-wide recession this year and left it to her to suggest that maybe we'd be best off not making any capital improvements to the house (other than a new kitchen - bummer). Old Thomas's crapper might live to see another day.

* See a comment of mine on Richard's most recent post.

** 'Crapper' - slang name for toilet named after Thomas Crapper who was an ex-schoolteacher.