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My bathroom ceiling fell in yesterday, which was a surprise. Fortunately I wasn't on the toilet or in the bath at the time or I would have got several square feet of plaster and slate on me.

Well, there's a misleading subject title for us all...

Bovril sandwiches ...

Anyway, to go beck to the topic of the thread.... !

No, not at all. I was eating a bovril sandwich at thje time that I hyard an almighty crash from the bathroom.

Oh, and Odo- my reaction too. Fortunately it's mostlky been sorted out,a nd I'll be able to switch my lights back on soon (the water that led top the ceiliong collapsing was coming through arounfd the lightbulb and switch, and so tripped the switch for the circuit, and I've been advised to leave it like that until the remaining bits of ceiling have dried.

Sounds like you're living in a bit of a death trap.

Good luck.

I'll need it...

*starts on script for "indiana Jones and the Bathroom of Death"*

Given the average student bathroom, I think it'd be quite scary enough without a collapsed ceiling.

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Well, yes.

Egon, I'm glad you weren't hurt.

And what is a bovril sandwich? Is your bovril our bovine?

Bovril's a meat paste that, if you add boiling water, becomes a drink with a close similarity to gravy. And if you don't add water, it's a fantastic sandwich filling.

It sounds better as a sandwich than a drink. I'm trying to imagine drinking gravy.

You probably have to use a straw.

Sorry about the ceiling, Egon. Maybe the plasterer will be a cutie.

Well all I know is that the Landlady's handyman who came round to sort out the leak which had caused the implosion in the first case is *definitely* not my type...

"Bovril's a meat paste that, if you add boiling water, becomes a drink with a close similarity to gravy."

Egon, you must have had a pretty strange upbringing if you think that bovril and water is similar to gravy

I would have said that in appearance the mix looks more like French Onion soup (minus the onion pieces floating in it); and tastes like a dissolved meat stock cube ie all meaty and very salty.

Some people make gravy from stock cubes.

To be honest it was just the best example that sprung to mind, although maybe not a particularly good one...

So it's like bouillon cubes only soft enough to spread on bread for a sandwich? When you said a meat paste, I was thinking it was similar to pate or potted meat, which does make a fair sandwich.

Bovril in the jar looks like crude oil -- sticky, thick, black and smelly, though not of hydrocarbons obviously.

It's a surprising alternative to marmite...

Yes, it gives vegetarians a right big surprise when you feed it to them