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Let's talk about toilet paper


From secretly appreciating those odd little toilet paper arrows in hotel rooms, to being faintly nauseated by the sight of a used roll*, I've always been a little bit weird about the humble toilet roll. The paper has to go over the top of the roll, it has to be white, I'm (shhhh) just not that into the recycled stuff and for the love of god, don't call it 't.p.'. In addition, I cannot enter into discussions about folding and scrunching... I just can't. And, please, take your patterns elsewhere, I cannot look.

In Africa and the Middle East and most of Asia, toilet rolls are few and far between. To be honest, those Italians aren't that big on keeping the toilet well stocked either. In all these places, I went, I saw, I walked around with an entire toilet roll in my pocket, just in case. I did. Big pockets.

99% of the time, wherever I am, I am the one to change the toilet roll. Doing a roll changeover appears to be my life's work and I'm no shirker. Nothing riles me more than seeing two mangy squares still attached to an otherwise empty roll. Seriously, what is that? Is toilet paper so laborious to change that we have to fake a full roll, just to get out of changing it? The two-sheets-left act is just so calculated, so stingy. It says a lot about a person... but what, I'm not exactly sure.

Too much?
Where do you stand (sit) on toilet paper? White? Patterned? Recycled? 
Any odd little habits you'd like to share?

* Even used rolls used as beautifully as in the Yuken Teruya artwork pictured here. Even them!

[Toilet roll tree by Yuken Teruya]

Home-made honeycomb

Bags of hand-made honeycomb

Honeycomb (makes about 10 bags)

Ingredients


Cooking instructions
  1. Grease and line baking tray with non-stick baking paper
  2. Place the sugar, honey, water and liquid glucose in a heavy based jug
  3. Heat on full power and using a candy thermometer, heat until the temperature reaches 160 deg C
  4. Remove from heat quickly
  5. Add the bicarbonate of soda and whisk immediately
  6. Pour onto a greased baking sheet and leave to cool down
  7. Break into small chunks
  8. Temper milk chocolate
  9. Dip the chunks of honeycomb into the chocolate
  10. Place on a sheet of baking paper and leave to set


Pretty paper floral bags
Floral printed paper bags from Zonart and Kamika, tops of bag folded over and punched with a ribbon punch and gingham ribbon threaded through holes and tied in a cute bow



Candy Thermometer
I have added the candy thermometer I use to my new Amazon shop - a place where you can find lots of items I have and use here on Torie Jayne to make candy, cakes, sweet treats and more.

Have a sweet day!
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