Odd addictions

No; it's like Vim [white powder]....

Is that like carbolic Tegan ?

Barkeepers friend is very good [not sure if it's a bit scratchy, though, but my sink is pretty scratched anyway].

Finally Sue I see we have the same taste in music, so I will arrange a little background music.

Sue meant to ask if your rates are reasonable. I'm desperate for a nice shiny sink.

Once you have cleaned the sink, and all the wash basins you are welcome to a nice cup of tea and a piece of my your cake.

If it's near lunchtime when you arrive we could instead have a glass of and then get Penstemmon to bring round some nice soft bread and I will provide the Brie.

I can feel a party coming on.

NanKate now Vim - in the days when I used Vim on an old stone sink I was pregnant and was cleaning it several times a day- loved the smell of Vim but my hands were awful. I love the smell of cleaning fluids but now use Sainsbury's own kitchen cleaner with bleach - that's me knocking on you door with my microfiber cloth. Is the kettle on I've brought cake [cake]

Nellie, for me it is stroking conkers fresh out of their casing, but I have never considered it odd!

Stroking the skins of Aubergines! I often do this in supermarkets. They feel just so wonderfully smooth. #runsandhidesinshame.

My hands are extremely clean because I have a compulsion to keep washing them for some reason. It's called O.C.D. I think.

Sue my sink could do with a quick drubbing, fancy coming over with your Vim.

Marmalade and white bread sandwiches. Cannot buy white bread or I just eat the loaf! Salivating at the thought!

addicted to cleaning the sink- always doing it!

I have never eaten anything strange[apart from peanut butter once!]However, like numberplease when a child I used to love sticking fingers into soft tar bubbles in the road outside our house. It was so pleasurable that it became almost a compulsion.Also, doing the same to the newly whitewashed and rather bubbly wall in my Grandma's outside loo. I got into real trouble about that [I was only 7] as bits of plaster then littered the floor like snow. I remember the horrible guilt.

A friend of DD3 ate new bath sponges when she was pregnant!

Mine when I was a child was licking the strip of a match box where the matches had been struck. No idea why but it tasted good at the time.

Reading about the lady who eats candles reminded me of when I was about 10 years old, I used to chew wax. I can`t remember where it came from, but it was red, and I loved chewing it and getting it soft, maybe it was because my mother would never allow us to have chewing gum? I also liked treading on tar bubbles in the road in hot weather. My SIL, when pregnant, used to eat coal!

shysal the flannel story has brought back a childhood memory which I had forgotten - sitting in the bath and sucking the flannel when I was a child! I did grow out of the habit though!

Well it was very odd!

KatyK they sound barking mad!

Sniffing a certain brand of felt tip pens!

Eating or popping Marmight ?

Should have added earlier the rubber on hot water bottles.

Bubble pack

There were two sisters on This Morning last week (in their 50s). One eats candles on a daily basis and has done so for years and the other one eats books - she only eats old books. She tears the pages into strips and eats them.

I know someone who has a 'thing' about used party poppers. Any 'do' she is at where they have these she goes around picking up all the used ones and sniffing them!