A recent report in Norfolk's local newspaper, the Eastern Daily Press, which was of vital importance to all its readers, gave statistical information of a most personal nature. It told how the average Briton spends more than three months during their lifetime sitting on the loo.
Women, apparently, spend most time in the bathroom using a total of one and a half years in there during their lifetimes. Having stood and waited for some of them to emerge I can well believe it. But while men spend less time showering and brushing their teeth they spend more time sitting on the toilet.
Who on earth calculates such things? And does it matter?
Well, perhaps it does. Productivity can clearly be influenced by such habits. And Dianne Montague, a friend who used to own and write the newsletter Agricultural Supply Industry, always said her weekly four page publication "had to pass the loo test". In other words it had to be possible to read it at one sitting.
So, in these days of shortening attention spans perhaps toilet statistics are more important than I facetiously implied.