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

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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?

I bet your DH is going to walk in shortly, sigh, and pull some cistern-based emergency widget, and the plate'll come rolling out.... life's like that.

DUCT TAPE. and an unbent coat hanger. Delicately thread a loooong piece of duct tape doen and then slidthe coat haneger down too and use the coat hanger to press the sticky bit of the ductt tape on tothe plate.

Scuse typing. Playing Elephant Catching Butterlies with other hand.

"Playing Elephant Catching Butterlies with other hand"

What?!

Wine will do

How about a couple of fish slices attached to broom handles, lower them down, slide one under each side of plate and then bring it up slowly.

Put a very big baloon underneath with a tube attached. Blow up baloon

It would be like the raising of the titanic

Lost Prophet is about to have a stroke. She is the kid-stuck-in-well rescuer that needs leading away from the scene wrapped in a bacofoil poncho.

Butterflies. Not butterlies. Sorry.

Thornrose I pictured your idea with a couple of slices of fish. I was thinking wtf? That wouldn't work at all.

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dd too big. I tried lowering her in down the side of the cistern, but she got stuck and extremely cross.

'who cares about the stupid plate' she said.

It's a long way down in is the problem. I will try the duct tape and coat hanger idea, but the coat hanger will have to huge or broken because I can't reach it with a normal one. But I am short.

I have some broth on hand for lostprophet. and some booble pate.

the fish may work, try octopus they have suckers.

Stand on a chair woman!!Or the toilet

paint a new plate.

it will help prophets stroke risk too

AN elephant!

That is what you need!

Just hire yourself an elephant

Are those kitchen implements actually called fish slices it sounds ridiculous now and wrong!!

DD2, helpfully, suggests

Use an elephant's trunk.

Soz.

Good grief, Benny & Joon - you are in COMPLETE synchronicity with DD2! I don't what that says about her .... or you

OOh OOh fishing net, that will definitely work, genuinely exciting!!

I really should oput my dc to bed but I cant stop watching. and my fingers have actually frozen. the chilled wine is not helping.

Have you got a fishing rod?

net net, she needs a fishing net

Yes, get your shrimp net from the shed!

you know what......

when you do get the plate out, make sure you superglue a magnet to the back, so that if this ever happens again, you can fish down a magnet to catch it back again.