Aarghhh!!! My bath will never be the same again!

[Maria CM]

Oh complete foulness!!!

My bath will never be the same again.:( :eek:

Having come back from particularly grubby diving recently my kit has been in the garden whilst being washed in the bath in stages (grubbiest things last) with nice strawberry bubble bath etc.

Anyway, bit of a crisis has just occurred, there is a heavy amount of grit and seaweed bits etc etc reducing the viz; the bath stops draining.... I reach in to pull out whatever bit of weed is blocking the plughole....and.... my fingers close around this soft squelchy slimy thing!

There is a completely waterlogged and hideously swollen, huge garden snail in my bath:eek: :eek: :eek: AND I TOUCHED IT WITH MY BARE HANDS!

I am feeling very unwell and still debating whether to vomit....

I dropped it as soon as I realised so it is still in there and the water is not draining away. I need to use the bath for sterilising changing mats today!

This is not a hazard that occurred to me would be associated with diving:(

I can't get it out :yeuch: the bath is still full of yucky water, and DH is going to go potty when he gets home, both because he resents diving so any excuse is good to have a pop, and because I haven't dealt with it! I have a horrible feeling a plunger may be required which I don't have.

Answers on a postcard please:(

best wishes from a very sickly feeling Maria

[JimW]

Oh

Answers on a postcard please:(

Maria

alcohol works:eek:

red wine/gin/vodka
(taken in vast quantities and internally)
doesn't cure things but makes you care less!
;)

J

[Luke Hickton]

Use some diving gloves to pick it out :) lol

[Roz]

Have you thought of adding some garlic and butter, along with some freshly baked bread, complete with Jim's excellent suggestion of alcohol, and considered preparing a light snack? :D

[Edward]

Have you thought of adding some garlic and butter, along with Jim's excellent suggestion of alcohol and preparing a light snack? :D

Here's and activity your 7 year old would love, fishing for slugs. Much better than making models.


Edward

[Nick Argue]

You big girls blouse. Get your hands in there and fish it out..... or get a stick and squish it down the plug hole.

:D

[Happypig]

You big girls blouse. Get your hands in there and fish it out..... or get a stick and squish it down the plug hole.

:D

Dont poke it down the hole - you don't want the waste pipe blocked.

Bite the bullet, put on some rubber gloves and fetch it out.

[northern_diver]

use your lobie hook...fish the suck out and bin it...or use next doors plunger...and bin it :) im sure your little'um would love to put it back in the garden even.

wash and rinse and scrub with hot water and its be fine:)

im i a bad person 'cos i chuckled while reading:( :p ;)

If you have a woof, you could even blame the dog...oh, i must be a bad person:D

Im sure any dive club would adopt you food and drink bribes dont work:)

John

[Maria CM]

OK - I'm back:)

Sloped out at about 3 leaving it all behind me to take small people to an adventure playground. I left an array of ironed shirts in full display in the kitchen (I don't do ironing). By the time I got in it had all been dealt with and DH was so shocked by the shirts it seems to have passed by the wayside.

I have not asked what happened to the snail - it was very dead - I was an inadvertent snail-drowner!:o

In honour of the first suggestion I have decided that I shall now force myself to consume alcohol!

best wishes,

Maria

[Chris aka divingchef]

Have you thought of adding some garlic and butter, along with some freshly baked bread, complete with Jim's excellent suggestion of alcohol, and considered preparing a light snack? :D

Can I add a little liquorish, really brings out the flavour!

[ChristianG]

Errrmmmm, wot's a "bath"?

[northern_diver]

like a personal in door billabong....

john


p.s :D

[Maria CM]

Dear oh dear! A shower person obviously........

I can while away many a happy hour in the bath with a book, bubbles, little floating flower lights and a glass of wine, with the bottle in a cooler next to the bath for topping up:) :) :) bliss!

The only problem is if you forget to leave the immersion running, as it is not the same if you can't keep topping up the hot:(

best wishes,

Maria

[ChristianG]

like a personal in door billabong....
Thanks John, that explains it perfectly. ;) :D

[Chris aka divingchef]

Errrmmmm, wot's a "bath"?


A large Baison!
:D

[ChristianG]

A large Baison!
:D
Errrmmmm, wot's a "Baison"? Is that Spanish? I don't do Spanish, or hardly so. ;) :D

[DRW]

Errrmmmm, wot's a "Baison"? Is that Spanish? I don't do Spanish, or hardly so. ;) :D

I wondered too about the word "baison". If it's Spanish, it's not in my Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary. Does he mean "basin"?

[Mike Halligan]

I wondered too about the word "baison". If it's Spanish, it's not in my Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary. Does he mean "basin"?

Or is it faux-Greek, as in modern variations to Kyrie Eleison? :D

[Chris aka divingchef]

:D I wondered too about the word "baison". If it's Spanish, it's not in my Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary. Does he mean "basin"?

Correct, trying for the Aussie accent....

[Chris aka divingchef]

Errrmmmm, wot's a "Baison"? ;) :D

Well you cant get washed in a buffalo!:D

[ChristianG]

Or is it faux-Greek, as in modern variations to Kyrie Eleison? :D
Blimey, how did we get religion into the equation? :eek:

Then again, I always thought that phrase was Latin, had to sing it under the stern gaze of the monks at school the whole time so that's just another reason why I soon became an atheist. Not the best reason though, at school we were caned when we did something wrong, which was often. Lots of people could order up a good caning but it was only the housemasters and the headmaster, always monks, who could actually administer it. Hello? Monks administering the cane? That didn't, ahem, sit well with me at all. Nor did sitting after a good caning for that matter.

Now we haven't had a good OT conversation for a while so this one should somewhat make up for that. :D

[ChristianG]

:D

Correct, trying for the Aussie accent....
Now Chris, you know perfectly well that I don't do "Aussie accent" either. I don't even consider the Aussie accent to be "quaint", unlike the Kiwi one.

But Oz does a few things pretty well (we won't go into the "sport" side of that thank you all). Here I am sitting in front of my laptop on my porch in a fairly threadbare tracksuit with the roof taking care of the sun avoidance bit, and it's 14:30 local time in the middle of winter. :D