Technology and toilets

22.2.2010
My God. I am not sure I can keep up with technology. The builder’s phones just started to mate, or pair, or something like that! Johno was showing us his blue ant and explaining how you use the phone with it in the car no avoid the fines for holding a mobile to your ear whilst driving. We got that bit. We even got the fact that it uses blue tooth wireless technology. Steve did not know if his mobile phone had blue tooth so Johnny had a look and then explained it was trying to pair with his phone. Apparently the blue ant and the mobiles are designed to seek out a mate. Goodness only knows what they get up to then!
We are back to work and conditions are a bit easier because the temperature has dropped into the twenties and a light rain has settled all the dust blowing from the new excavations. We have had a hot and difficult weekend as all our topsoil set off to the neighbour’s property and it was so hot and sweaty that doing anything was challenging. I did manage to sort out all my paper work and Edd retrieved the sheep from Craig’s block and mended the new fence. The storms last week had caused enough flooding to allow the tie downs over the gully to come out so the sheep could just walk underneath.

I am having yet more problems with toilets. This time because I seem unable to buy the ones I like. They are in the catalogue but when I phone up they are no longer available. There some pretty silly toilets in fashion this year. They are all white, which is not so good with dam water, and they have seats that look as if they have shrunk once you lift the lid because the seat does not cover the porcelain toilet rim totally. I think the idea is that the lid and the bowl come together to make a continuous line but as everyone is in a hurry round here our lids are rarely shut.

I found some basins cheap at a bargain outlet but I seem unable to find where the sensible toilets have been dumped. This must have a sensor block on the Internet because I have tried hard enough and surely the outdated models did not just vanish. I would really like a wall-backed toilet as this must cut out all that bending down to clean in awkward corners behind the thing.

Toilets should definitely be designed by toilet cleaners. Whilst I am on the subject I did try out one of the automatic public toilets. Never again. It was the most stressful experience imaginable. I felt as if I was too slow at understanding the instructions I would be washed down and exposed or permanently trapped inside!

Now all you friends with houses will think me nuts for my toilet obsessions but you try managing with out those sort of amenities for a year and they will become more important than hair does or what you wear.