As I say I really only saw Mick with Eddy but I remember one time when Ed got the job of changing the lavatory pan at Athena's Southampton Row shop.

The manager was going to hold an evening event and thought that the Victorian outside loo was not suitable for the quality of clientèle he was expecting. Ed was busy so passed the job to me and Mick. Some where along the way Ed and Mick had got the idea that I was a time served plumber!

I just stood there waiting for Mick to tell me what to do..........silence........... it was then we found out we had been literally dropped in the shit!

I explained to Mick that although I had sat on many lavatory pans, that really was the full extent of my knowledge of their workings, but I assured him that changing such a basic instrument of human necessity was well within the joint ability of a window cleaner and telephone engineer!

After a long appraisal of the job in hand we decided that (obviously) the old pan had to come out before the new one could go in. To cut a long story short..........it took us two hours chipping away at the concrete floor to even loosen the pan then with Mick sitting on the floor cuddling the pan I was jumping up and down on the rim when the pan broke free along with half of the concrete floor and about a foot of the soil pipe.

After I had got off Mick and removed the pan from his grasp we gazed at the gaping hole before us and exclaimed together " that's f**ked it". Any way with the pipe savaged and some glue from the shop come eleven o'clock when Eddy came to pick me up it all looked good. We just hoped the glue would hold at least until the event had finished. In fact it all went well, Ed got paid, we got paid and never heard any more about it.