rope 4 January 2011
We got a new en suite during the awfulness that was The Building Work. It’s lovely and of course not everything in it quite works – or at least it may but the instructions etc are gone now or missing in action, so to speak. So, the underfloor heating = a complete mystery (and not functional), ditto the heated towel rail. The shower is great, if a little finnicky from time to time. But most of all the unit is one of those beauties that doesn’t lend itself to extras, like a soap dish…so there ain’t one yet. And I have a feeling it’ll be an item that’ll take years to find, somehow. So it occurred to me that soap-on-a-rope would be just the thing to hang out of the shower. Does it even exist anymore though? I remember it from the 70s and 80s, though in my mind it’s also associated with aftershaves and men’s body sprays and the like? Can it still be got? If so, does it come in a rather more ‘uni-sex’ incarnation than the one I recall?
