Alex has done heroic deeds in our Harrow toilet. This may sound like an exaggeration, but believe me, seldom has such valiant battle been done in so small a space.

For a long time, the flush hasn’t been working right. Over the last few weeks, Alex has been fiddling with the mechanism in the cistern, fixing it, only to find that, after a couple more days, the problem would return, or another problem would appear. We are now keeping our fingers crossed for the latest repair.

Again in that small room, the walls needed tidying up. So Alex has been working hard with filler and lining paper. But in order to get the lining paper on the wall, he stood on the toilet seat and… broke it. He spent ages in a traffic jam to get to B&Q to get a replacement.

Flush and seat being repaired, and lining paper attached, the toilet needed a lick of magnolia emulsion. Our friend Gerjan applied that in the afternoon. Hilde has written her next blog post and has been general support system for the battles in the toilet.