A plate has fallen down the back of the loo - how can I get it out?

[ahundredtimes]

And not just any plate - this is a plate painted by ME for dd's hair bands! I did it when she was painting a mug for dh- the man was so impressed he put it in the window. [preen]

It's annoying.

Now the cistern of the loo is built into a tongue and groove type wall affair, and can only be accessed from the top. The plate has fallen down, below the cistern, onto the floor below.

I can't reach it, nobody can reach it.

Any ideas?

The woman's just a heartless bitch isn't she?

(But then, you blatantly ignored my love of you...)

I bet in the kid-in-well saga they all huddled before each attempt. We should make a stack of hands and shout "TEAM PLATE" before the next session.

THE PLATE IS ON THE BAG PEOPLE.

I got it on the bag.

[punches air]

Now erm, for the bag and plate together. Am unbending wire coat hangers as we speak.

Shall also try and hoover?

For a minute then I actually considered ringing my dad to ask him for advice, but then imagined his face when I tried to explain it all and didn't

well....I dont see why you dont just take the loo out now.

I mean, it is clear that no-one has been as yet, considering how long we all sat here, so the loo is obviously surplus to requirements and can come out and you can go buy chamber pots to pee in.

and just think of how much painting time you can have with chamber pots.....

[hgrin[

Just the coat hangers - you would need at least 3 hoovers...

TEAM PLATE

I still can't believe I wasted a whole afternoon of my life watching kid in well film

Umm - I think we were suggesting you get it in the bag - it's going to be very tricky pulling the bag up without the plate falling off.

I can see it now - it's going to be like one of those disaster movies where they get within inches of rescuing the plate hero's friend & the he falls back into the abyss....

If it is sitting on the bag then you need something to gently pull the fabric of the bag a bit until the plate slips inside, the hoist bag up.

A plate too far....

Dh has just held me by my shoulders and said in a firm, determined yet kindly way 'I will get this out for you tonight, I promise. I just can't do it now. Okay?'

I in turn nodded like a snivelling 12 y-o. I can't reach it properly is the problem.

Shall report back tomorrow - or later.

Thank you for your patience and concern. Am going to throw down two hair bobbles to keep the plate happy.

yes, plate must be IN the bag not ON the bag for a successfully completed mission

I have 10,000 things I should be doing atm, but nooooooooooooo, I am sat here waiting for a bobble plate to come out from the back of a loo.

tie the bobbles to string first

Yay for your DH understanding.

Don't throw decent bobbles down!!! Did any fall off down there anyway?

long wait ahead me thinks LP

chainsaw

new plate

chainsaw

take out the toilet

chainsaw

new plate

Tell DH this is bigger than him, now, 100x, it's gone NATIONAL

Oh and yes, yes I know it should be in the bag, but I under estimated the size of the bag, so now it's all scrunched up - possibly on its side, but the GOOD thing is that it is one scrunched up jute bag higher, and dh says is only a cm away from his finger tips. So might be able to get a bit leverage and he might be able to reach.

Sorry. It has gone on a bit.

I am obsessed and very determined though.

I now have the concept of a hand painted bobble plate lodged firmly in my consciousness.

How MN is that.

I have now completely explained to DH what this is about... he is baffled as to how a group of women have been talking about a stuck plate for two and a half hours

You mean it was an empty bobble plate?

So you do actually keep your bobbles under DD's bed like us mere mortals - the bobble plate was just for show?

Or was it that if you had bobbles in it, they would cover up your wonderful painting.....

Well yes, it was sort of empty because the bobbles are god know where. Hence the point of the plate you see. It was going to be a home for hair bobbles. [sniffs]

Oh and Rusty it is sort of decorative this plate you see [works through] and had pictures of hair bobbles on it, and then I wrote on it

HAIR BANDS HERE.

[collapses in grief]