Q. I wonder if you or any of your readers
could help with a slightly delicate problem which is faced by many people at this time of the year. I refer of course to the task of removing shotgun pellets from the loo — I needn’t go into the mechanics of how they get there, but they don’t flush! I have tried several devices to no avail and I really hate dipping my hand in after them. They are so unsightly. Please help.
R.S., Deal, Kent A. You can adapt the technique used by dogowners to collect messes expelled in public places. Don a plastic bag as a protective glove, then plunge your hand — which should be gripping a pellet of Blue Tack the size of a Ping-Pong ball — into the loo. Head straight for the recess where the pellets will no doubt be lurking together and, having ‘embedded’ them into the Blue Tack, withdraw and dispose.
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