Hi Brian (and *everybody* else who has/is providing all this really useful stuff for me to follow up on - I will remember your names, eventually!),
I'm not at all worried about the humour, after all my first post *was* intended as a teaser, LOL, and as an ex-Home Educator myself this group is fast approaching the 'Fluff' levels which I used to enjoy immensely :-) The loo question is quite appropriate though; having passed through various versions of the, now banned on inland waters I guess, 'Baby Blake' (and in more ways than one I guess <g>) onto the camping 'Porta-Potti', thence to 'blue' recirculating systems and, much more recently, the river fed holding tank of this year's week on the Broads. I've also experienced the joys of a 'dig a long hole in the ground and stick a couple of planks over it' communal (no cubicles) loo as well as the flushing ceramic 'complete with footprints' joys found in parts of Europe and elsewhere; so I can probably claim a reasonable knowledge of the subject (are you sorry you asked yet?). Out of interest (best quit here if I'm boring you - and you haven't done so already...), when I was working I used to supply air pumps to the self-contained mini-sewage plant industry, both marine and shore-based. A lot of new builds - homes, housing estates, pubs, hotels and even whole villages in the south west, are not connected to mains sewers (usually because there simply isn't one - or there is a big hill in the way) and have these plants tucked inside a big green plastic enclosure, or buried underground. Years ago I even drank the water (but only the once, LOL) they discharge; it was totally bland and colourless but, I was assured, quite safe if the 'bug factory' these units contain is properly functioning. It was mid-week at a new installation, a very popular village pub serving gallons of real ale at weekends - I'm not quite so certain I would have agreed to do it on a Monday morning though ... :-) Trevor S. After Captain Beeky had inquired of me, following an earlier post, Brian had added ... >Let's start with with the most important question - what sort of >lavatorial arrangement do you fancy ? > Sorry - that's not allowed out for AT LEAST another month! (Don't worry - we go on like this all the time!)
