I had to laugh, but in order to tell you about why I had to laugh, I have to make a confession about what some of you may consider as “eew”!
I’m a bogside reader.
There. I said it.
How has this confession come about? Quite simple, really. I’m reading Kate Fox’s Watching the English at the moment, and I had to laugh at the coincidence; I was reading about bogside reading, wait for it, when I was on the bog!
There are many English people – particularly males – who find it very hard to defecate at all unless they have something to read. If there was no proper bogside reading, they will read the instructions on the soap-dispenser or the list of ingredients on the spray can of air-freshener.
Fox, Kate, Watching the English, p221
Ho hum! That’s very true of me! However, I do not have a bogside collection of books and magazines. I tend to take a book or magazine into the loo with me. According to Fox, this makes me lower-middle or middle-middle.
There you go. There’s one more thing about me that you did not want to know! 
No! However, I did buy Passing Time on the Loo a few years back. However, mainly because the book was a wealth of useless information.
How do you like the book so far?
Lol! It’s ok – lots of things I recognise in myself and the populace at large, and it is easy to read. However, it does read like an essay, and lots of conclusions and hypotheses etc. So it is a bit more wordy than it needs to be. I think it would have benefited from Lynne Truss’ touch.
Repeats itself!