How ever did they cope in the days of squares of newspaper threaded on a string?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ter-12m-year-fix.html

[ttfn]

Izal - the forerunner of teflon?

[tonyav]

Nail on the head there, ttfn.

[emmie]

no wonder you used to have to scrub your hands afterwards, yuck..

[ttfn]

em - it was ace if you wanted to play a tune on the comb though ;)

[Tilly2]

And with the Sun ................................ or at least you think it did.

[tonyav]

Yep slippier than Tony Blair !

[Baldric]

Best use I ever found for the D/Mail!

[emmie]

the damn outside lav was a nightmare as well, spiders, and all sorts of dead flies, probably died from the odorous aroma

[tonyav]

Bet you didn't hang about in the winter though, did you em lol.

[ttfn]

A box of matches can be useful in the loo, em. Strike a match and the malodorous aroma can go quite quickly ;)

In severe cases - just buy the bigger matches ...

[emmie]

nor summer, spring or autumn, you just couldn't, especially after gran had been in there, after her few sherbets down the pub, whew.

[tonyav]

Ar yes Gran lol, happy memories.

[emmie]

not always x

[parkie]

In my day it was the Daily Sketch. But I'll draw a line under that one.
In answer to the original problem they probably used Vogue magazines.

[beegeebee]

I do recal Izal, my gran used that but, we had bronco if I remember after we moved to Bordesley Near railway & canal, to Yardley Wood! (Birmingham) moved up in the world??

[anotheoldgit]

ttfn

/// A box of matches can be useful in the loo, em. Strike a match and the malodorous aroma can go quite quickly ///

Wouldn't that have been extremely dangerous?

Talking about that though, I once heard a tale of a wife doing a spot of decorating before her husband came home from work.

Upon his arrival home she quickly poured the tin of turps in which she had cleaned her paint bush in, down the loo.

Her husband rushed upstairs to pay a visit, and decided to read the paper and have a fag, after he had lit the cigarette with a match he lifted his bum and dropped the lighted match into the pan.

You can guess the rest.