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?

you do realise that all of us will now also need plates for bobbles in our bathrooms!

Actually I used to keep DD's bobbles on a wooden kitchen roll pole.
If that had fallen down the back of the loo it would have stuck up enough for me to reach it.

Oddly enough, it never did....

"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 had my hair cut too short for hairbands a few weeks ago, my boobles are unloved, unneeded, unwanted & they don't even have a plate

i CANNOT wait until tomorrow!!

I have never thought of having a bobble plate.

Ours are supposed to go in a tub in a drawer in my room, but obviously they are never actually in there as they are normally threaded onto the dd's bed posts.

I think you kinow what you need to do. Divorce him and marry a longer, thinner husband.

except for me of course.

I have three baskets of bobbles on shelves in my bedroom.

and they are not small baskets either!!

I don't think the soon-to-be-rescued booble plate should live above the loo for future reference....
Boobles & their plate will have to find a new home.

Can't you just shave your kids ?

Surprising that Rusty

But JKSIF it is because the top had been reoved due to malfuncyioning cistern so normally i believe empty bobble plate is safe.

the plate sounds beautiful - we need a picture when it is out

LOL. I have just walked past downstairs loo [crime scene] and saw dd's head sticking out the top of the bit behind the loo.

I said 'I don't think you can fit' and she said 'this is important' and I said 'yes, but you are going to get stuck'.

I am touched by her concern, and take back what I said about her being stroppy about being lowered down the hole. Also I think I might need to downplay this tragedy here

I have a quality street tin (and a couple of other pots), and I only have one girl, and her hair is a short bob

pmsl @ your DD!

Shave her. I mean it. Shave her.

It's the only option left.

ooh....I forgot the 'bun box', and the tub on the top shelf, and the tubs in each of the girls rooms...

I have just eaten dinner way too fast to get back to the booble plate crisis situation.

VERY exciting updates re plate on bag, although like Rusty I do have a cold nagging fear that a 'towering inferno finger slippage' scenario is going to occur.

Doesn't 100x's DH sound strong and capable? I am warming to him greatly.

Aha, MNP - missed that. Then DH must really get handle repaired/repair it himself soon, see it was his fault all along....
Lol at your dd, hope she doesn't get stuc too, or you really will be calling the fire brigade!

PMSL at this thread, I do hope the boobles have helped the plate feel more loved in its lonely place down the back of the loo. I had popcorn and everything, seriously, but then dd had to go to bed so missed the high drama around the bag stage.
Good luck 100x

DP and I have been scrutinising the picture of your toilet and his suggestion is to wodge up a bit of duck tape and stick it to the end of a broom handle, so you've got a sort of sticky plungery thing. Then poke it down until it reaches the plate, make sure the plate is stuck and lift it out.

I am still certain that with suitable carrot/stick action you could get a child down there though.

In 70's disaster movies a small child always get's stuck. Frequently the strong capable male (No2) goes in and gets squished/burnt/swept away.

Strong capable male (No1) shouts "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you brave brave fool".

I'm hoping there is a ready supply of such persons in your house 100.

Doesn't the pet always 'get it' in the 70's films too? Probably best that 100x didn't go for the guinea pig/chicken idea then.

(they do seem to let the pets live in more modern disaster films, prob H&S got involved)

I think animals always make it nowadays, as do the stuck children, the woman with issues that she overcomes during the escape, the strong capable man (no1) and the comedy relief.

Capable man (no2), business woman in suit and frightened scientist who overcomes his issues but still gets it, all expendable.