A few year ago when I was still working within the building industry for my fathers business we picked up a council grant job to modernise an old farm house which was totally out in the sticks. The house didn’t have electricity and part of our work was to provide an electricity supply by means of installing a generator.

The old farmer who lived in that farm house and still does to this day originally applied for a council grant to help to get his roof redone but in doing so the council insisted that he had to get a lot more work done to the house work that included, underpinning the rear wall, damp proofing, electricity to the house, a new kitchen and last but not least a bathroom with a toilet indoors.

The last job that I have mentioned a toilet indoors the old farmer tried to fight against this as he had an old Victorian toilet outside which consisted of a ramshackle corrugated building with an hole in the ground and a very old wood worm invested wooden toilet seat for comfort! The farmer was adamant that he didn’t want a toilet indoors and that it was an utter waste of taxpayers’ hard earned money. But the council were insistent that for him to successfully receive his grant that he must have a toilet fitted indoors.

He finally reluctantly agreed for the toilet to be fitted but he kept on muttering over the following days and weeks that we were there working that it was a total waste of tax payers hard earned money as he had no intention of ever using it, he kept saying that he was a civilised person and that you don’t even find wild animals doing a dump in their own dens and they are not supposed to be civilized and he would still continue to go outside for his daily dumps!

I bumped into him recently and asked how he was getting on and if the toilet that we had fitted a few years back was still functioning ok. He stated that he still hadn’t used it to this day and used his same words, Robin he said even wild animals don’t dump in their own dens and they are not supposed to be civilized.

OK I have told a slight porky! If you change the word dump to S**T then you will have his true words

Does anyone else think it is uncivilized to dump in ones own den?

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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Tags: bathroom, building industry, council grant, damp proofing, dens, electricity, farmer, new kitchen, old farm house, toilet door, wild animals

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