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Wednesday 14 December 2016

The twelve days of Christmas twinning


To get you in the festive mood, here’s our countdown to Christmas, with 12 days of Toilet Twinning (and some terrible puns)… Join us as we take an affectionate look back over some of the highlights of 2016.

On the first day of Christmas…
‘Dundee’ (which rhymes with ‘pear tree’, ish) becomes our first Scottish Toilet Twinned City and host to our first-ever Malawi twin (in the ‘cuddies’ on board RSS Discovery, no less).
On the second day of Christmas…
We absolutely ‘turtle dove’ (cockney slang for ‘love’) all our two-legged heroes who have taken on sporty challenges for us, from cycle rides to treks, runs to rowing.

On the third day of Christmas…
ROQ holds three weeks’ worth of toilet-themed craziness in their office to twin toilets, complete with a school uniform day, loo-roll dodge ball contest, bingo and maths quiz.

On the fourth day of Christmas…
Toilet-tastic Petra Crofton twins 20 loos to mark her four-tieth birthday, by setting herself fundraising challenges throughout the year, including a triathlon.
On the fifth day of Christmas…
The Guardian crossword marks World Toilet Day with a fiendishly tricky cryptic one in aid of us. Can you guess the answer to Five down? Reduce or eliminate wrinkles (8). (Answer below.)
On the sixth day of Christmas…
Christine McGibbon in Northern Ireland allays (geese a-laying… it’s close!) all fears she’s slowing down, by setting herself a target to twin six-ty toilets to mark her 60th,
On the seventh day of Christmas…
1st Maxwell Mearns Rainbows, Brownies and Guides raises more than seven hundred pounds (£750) by collecting money in specially painted ceramic ducks (distant relatives of ‘seven swans’).
On the eighth day of Christmas…
For eight weeks, the Sunday School children at Llanishen Evangelical Church collect money in uber-cute coin collectors ‘maid’ (as in a-milking) out of toilet rolls, with specially knitted hats.

On the ninth day of Christmas…

Nine-year-olds make a big splash with their twinning this year, including Emily Greenway from Nottingham who organised a ‘toilet fair’ (which included a game of ‘splat the poo’) and Ronan McGowan who ran the junior Great North Run for us.

On the tenth day of Christmas…
Lordsalummy! Ten out of ten for bravery for a little girl with encopresis who overcame her own toilet battles to raise money in her penny pot and provide a loo for a family who didn’t have one.
On the eleventh day of Christmas…
Thomas Lloyd, who’s eleven slept outside in a bivvi bag for at least one day a month, in temperatures which were not exactly piping hot. Brrrr…illiant.

On the twelfth day of Christmas…
Many, many more than twelve people at St Brendan’s Sixth Form College in Bristol join in with the pre-Christmas fun run – drumming up support for toilets!



There are many, many more twinners we could and should have mentioned here: huge thanks to you all and a very Merry Christmas!

Answer to Day 5 puzzle: Decrease