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
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