Big mistake on the bio-degradable toilet front.
It is a good idea to sprinkle cow crap to get the bio-degrading bio-degrading.
It is a good idea if you are positive that there are no fly eggs laid in the cow dung before you do it.
If there are they will hatch.
Beautifully.
Noisily.
A friendly, buzzing, black mass whose sole desire is to crawl over your exposed bottom when you least expect it, and awkwardly can't immediately move away.
We fitted our chimney, which killed quite a few.
And I hung down the shaft, and attached a couple of sticky rolls of fly paper.
(with my lips pursed tightly together)
But I was definitley the only one using the outhouse for a week while we got it sorted out.
So wherever you are in London, don't sprinkle fresh cow patty down the loo like we did.
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Hello Charles. I live in London and I have a loo in my back garden.
ReplyDeleteHow do you know a pregnant fly hasn't flown down and laid some eggs in the poo of your family? Is your loo and chimney well enough sealed not to allow entrance to flies?
Hanging down the shaft of the loo is a good idea too as you can pick the maggots out with a pair of chopsticks.
By the way, a colleague of mine mentioned that they had been to a music festival here in the UK and the portable loos at the festival had a clever ledge that caught urine at the front, allowing the brown bombs to fall harmlessly behind. I have dredged the internet for a link and here it is:
http://www.akvo.org/wiki/index.php/Dry_urine_diversion_toilet
This web page has a picture which you might be able to use for ideas if you ever decide to build a second generation model.
Your cow patty couldn't have been that fresh if Mrs Fly had had time to lay her eggs in it, innit?
There's a lot to be said for flushing toilets in suburbia huh? But the view from your front garden is amazing and probably worth all the flies and expensive home grown eggs.....
ReplyDeleteLove to you all from Sheila and family.
Look forward to reading more updates :-)