If ever there was a great reason to get divorced, clearing space in the bathroom is as good as any. Women, particularly wives, have a nasty habit of taking up loads of space on the sink and in the bathroom cabinet. Little bottles of perfume, face-packs, bath salts, anti ageing cream, wax and various other bottles and cartons of junk are liberally sprinkled around the room.

Surely all you need is bogroll, toothpaste and a shaver? You can’t possibly need anything else!

Seriously though, it’s incredible how bare a bathroom can look after divorce, and I don’t mean that in a depressing, self destructive sort of way. I genuinely mean how nice it is that you can get in the shower and use it without first having to carefully relocate countless amounts of crap and to pull down the bra and tights set that are always hanging from the shower rail.

Of course the lack of waiting for the bathroom is also an important factor, as is the lack of nagging that is usually associated with a fair amount of water sprinkled on the bathroom floor after using the shower. Does it really harm anyone? I don’t think so.

And towels are supposed to be hung on the floor!

Clive Bellmore