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Ten years ago they were evrywhere, now I just can't find them. They were a standard bath plug and a chain, but the end of the chain was not attached to the bath it had a floating animal toy on the end - a bit like a rubber duck.

Can anyone tell me a UK high street store, or a UK web company who can supply them? Not "Debenhams used to have them..." sort of thing, but somewhere where they definitely are *now*, 'cos I don't have the time to browse!

My web searches keep pulling up anatmocally specific floating bath toys, or rather a lot about an*l sex accessories - could it be the word 'plug'? I'm not a specialist on that particular field of nomenclature...

Help!

Hmm. Sounds intriguing.

The "floating fish plug" here could be like what you want- http://www.deelights.co.uk/bathroomfun.html

whereas the "Water Willy BAth Plug" here-http://www.thesextoycollection.com/Products/GiftsandGames.htm
probably isn't what you want...

The Deelights link crashed my computrer everytime I tried it yesterday, but it's working today. Shame they don't do cutiey creatures though....

That was about all I could find for you.

And I see what you mean about all the sex sites that get turned up!

You could get a rubber duck (I'm sure they're still available) and a spare bath plug from a DIY shop (with chain) and make one...

These floating things don't necessarily last a long time, though. We had a floating 'Grommit in a plane', which is now almost unusable because the rubber it's made of has perished.

MaW - thank you for that! We do have rubber ducks (but have you seen the priceof them? and the quality?) And we have a spare bath plug on a cahin (DIY shops are great places for bored babies wirth texture obseeions and metal fetishes!) I'm not convinced, however, that even I can combine them in a safe manner. I knew I'd seen these things - and bought them for my nieces - years ago when they were in every gift shop - it just annoyed me that they had vanished!
CD - I don't know which is mo®´ int riguing- that you had this thing in the first place, or that you used it so much it perished I seem to remember that the ones I bought were made of a particularly soft, think rubbery plastic - was that the same with yours? i wonder if that's the prob?

It just seemed like a nice, *easy* first birthday pressie - oh well...

We had it because we're both into Wallace and Grommit - well, most of the Nick Parks / Aardman claymation characters, actually. And I don't think it's the amount of usage that made it perish as we didn't use it that often - we shower more than bathe. Either it's a problem with the material (either rubber or rubbery plastic, as you said), or its a reaction between the bubble bath we use and the floating part.

what sort of bubble bath do you use?

Actually, I think it's just the wet/dry thing that you get in bathroom atmosphere that ruins some things....

It probably is the wet/dry thing, as bubble bath shouldn't have that kind of effect on things. (Artificial sponges would deteriorate in no time if it did!) We have a very small, poorly ventilated bathroom that suffers a lot from high humidity when we shower. This probably contributed to the deterioration. A bigger and/or better ventilated bathroom might not have the same effect.

Try the Early Learning Centre... Fabulous place for all things fab. I also happen to know that they do a nice line in wind up toys to go in the bath, they have a fish and a lobster I think, and they swim about when would up

Thanks rfb, but we rather live in the place (nice new big ELC nearby with decent play areas and free balloons - and THEY LET YOU TAKE HOME BALLS FROM THE BALL POOL!) so I know they don't have them... Neither do Mothercare or Boots. I refuse to go in ToysRUs cos it's hideous, and everything else in town centre and harder to get to unless I *know* they'll come up trumps

Your ELC sounds cool.... I could have sworn they had them in,but I shall take your word for it.

I got one for my nephew last year from The Deep, a local submarium thingie round about where I come from... I could go look see if they still have them if you'd like? I could pop one in the post if they have them.

I hadn't thought of the underwater/seabird/marine type places! there are quite a few nearby! What a great idea - let me give them a go before you go rushing out on your very kind offer!

What a brain....

Well, good luck on the search, and the offer is there if you need it

Could always see if any of the hockey pucks I picked up in Canada this weekend float......

Vulcanised rubber doesn't tend to float, but you could try.

Just out of interest, where abouts in Canada? My other half and I want to go there at some point, but lans are on hold as we've just had a baby. We want to go watch some real hockey

btw, rfb, do come over to the Parent and Child page at some point and say hi!

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