fat, condoms, pets, nappies, body parts, cotton buds, paint, food, syringes and half a mini

[Maz]

We studiously washed the notes, hung them out to dry...

That's money laundering!

 

[Night Train]

Just be lucky Night Train isn't there after his post about how he dug up his garden just to locate a blockage in his drain!

Working with poo is actually quite interesting.

I did a course at The Centre For Alternative Technology on poo and the other ways to process it. Aquatrons and long drops, composting solids and small scale sewage works, all fascinating stuff.

An aquatron to separate solids and liquids.

First settlement tank.

Secondary settlement tank.

Floater composting box.

Edible crop filter beds

Solid sludge bed.

Vertical reed beds.

 

[summerdays]

. in fact, we still have one or two towels with my name on a tag carefully stitched into one of the corners

My mum too , except since I've been married 20 years it is my maiden name! It was obviously a high quality towel (or not that much used - it was a bath towel and it was about that age that I discovered bath sheets!!!), since it is still going strong after all these years.

 

[Fnaar]

I've used (for two weeks) and emptied a compost toilet in Finland. It really doesn't smell bad at all. I was impressed.
It was heavy, mind, so I was a bit flushed.

 

[Saluki]

Pets? Down the loo? Are they joking?
I'm looking at my Saluki now, and then at the U bend diameter and I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't fit, not that I am about to try.

I was told, at school, that putting chewing gum down the loo was against the law as it caused all sorts of havoc further down the pipes. I definitely have put chewing gum down the loo, bubble gum too. Possibly a cotton bud or two as well.

I am intrigued to know how someone managed to fit half a mini down the toilet now though.

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

My drain clogs - mainly the shower - are caused by hair.
Wife and daughter and periodically the MIL (when babysitting) all have long hair and when I do need to unclog its one of the rare things that makes me gag.
I think the longest hair, soap and detritus "wig" I pulled outta the shower drain was about 24 inches long!
My dinner did its best to join it.

 

[Night Train]

My drain clogs - mainly the shower - are caused by hair.
Wife and daughter and periodically the MIL (when babysitting) all have long hair and when I do need to unclog its one of the rare things that makes me gag.
I think the longest hair, soap and detritus "wig" I pulled outta the shower drain was about 24 inches long!
My dinner did its best to join it.

I do this regularly, but it is mostly my own hair.

 

[Night Train]

I am intrigued to know how someone managed to fit half a mini down the toilet now though.

Must have been an original Mini.

They are considerably smaller then the BMW variety.

 

[Arch]

I've used (for two weeks) and emptied a compost toilet in Finland. It really doesn't smell bad at all. I was impressed.
It was heavy, mind, so I was a bit flushed.

A good working one doesn't smell bad. We have three at work, two work fine and don't smell, but the downstairs one, which gets used most, isn't draining properly, and is a bit smelly. We're getting a replacement.

(Incidentally, the one that smells is the Gents, the others are Ladies. I have no idea if that makes a difference, or if it's just because the one that smells gets used more).

 

[Saluki]

Must have been an original Mini.

They are considerably smaller then the BMW variety.

Obviously, of course. Why didn't I think of that

 

[Headgardener]

My dad used to work for New Forest District Council as Sewerage Superintendant in the early 1970's which meant callouts to clear blockages and he reconned that the worst offenders were disposable nappies wich were just taking over from the old fashioned terry nappy as the nappy of choice. Some people thought that flushing them down the pan was still way to get rid of them. Some of NFDC's tennants were a bit slow on the uptake so the drain clearing teams would often have to go to the same address several times before the message got through about disposeable nappies.

 

[Maz]

Working with poo is actually quite interesting.

I did a course at The Centre For Alternative Technology

The CAT in Machynlleth, right (are there any others?)?
I've been to the CAT a few times - and 'been' in the CAT centre (if you get me) to use the organic toilets there. Didn't smell half as bad as I thought it would. Mind you, after I'd used it...I'm glad there was plenty of ventilation.

 

[Night Train]

The CAT in Machynlleth, right (are there any others?)?
I've been to the CAT a few times - and 'been' in the CAT centre (if you get me) to use the organic toilets there. Didn't smell half as bad as I thought it would. Mind you, after I'd used it...I'm glad there was plenty of ventilation.

Yep, that's the place. I did my MSc there.

I remember the students criticising some of us for driving there for the week long courses. But come Sunday when trains were frequently cancelled they were all looking for lifts back into England!
One chap who arrived in a lorry, straight from work, took a lot of flack. He was very smug when, on the Sunday, the roads were flooded out and he was the only one able to drive home, on his own.

 

[Arch]

Yep, that's the place. I did my MSc there.

I remember the students criticising some of us for driving there for the week long courses. But come Sunday when trains were frequently cancelled they were all looking for lifts back into England!
One chap who arrived in a lorry, straight from work, took a lot of flack. He was very smug when, on the Sunday, the roads were flooded out and he was the only one able to drive home, on his own.

Of course, travelling to the middle of nowhere, for a week's trip, is the perfect use for a car. I wonder how many of the critics had cars they hopped in to go down to the newsagents at home...

 

[marafi]

I tried to flush down a fish, cos i was thinking silly kid me that it would somehow get super powers and find me again! loool Thankfully it didn't get super powers nor did it find me. Still though imagination can do wonders!