Day Piddle-I-Po!

Number six...the minute dictator, has decided she no longer wears nappies, "no like 'um," she says and stubbornly pulls in her chin and shakes her head. Unfortunately, she is now an expert underesser, so sneak one on and you'll find it removed and in the heap with the rest of her clothes the second you turn your back.
It isn't that I want to discourage her and keep her in padding eternally, she's just made this decision on a bad week.
1.It's cold for a start, driving rain and wind keep blowing through the gaps in the house.
2. The downstairs toilet is out of action (number 5 used the sink as a climbing hold) and husband hasn't had time to fix it.
3. The staircase just has too many steps this week to be up and down them every two minutes...(still suffering from abscess, sinus infection and antibiotics combination and a thousand times a day is just too much - and potties send me into an irrational panic unless they are placed next to a hand-washing sink, so are therefore rendered useless)
4. Huge backlog of washing already, would have had this cleared in preparation for the vast quantities of 'pickle pants' that are joining the overspilling pile.

The simple fact of the matter is, that she is not quite ready to be nappy-less, she just thinks she is! So we are having a constant stream of trickles...quite literally. A few more weeks and all would have been well, she has all the sensations and lots of toilet enthusiasm, we're just not quite there with the control. The house will soon smell of chicken.
We start the day with enthusiasm but by five o'clock the knees are aching with so many up-and-down-trips and nothing else in the house is getting done. I suspect her need to 'wee now' coincides with whenever the husband and I attempt to have a conversation, drink a cup of coffee or eat any food. She uses urination as most countries use trade sanctions and nuclear weapons - it's an ultimate threat and deterrent to make parents bend to her will on all occasions. As soon as, 'get down from the table' or, 'no pinching' is said...surprise, surprise...she needs a wee.
Everyone toilet trains differently, some take a nappy off for an hour a day, moving up to an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon, that works for them, but stretches the whole thing out eternally. I know toddlers who are in/out of nappies and underwear for months - pegs at nursery groan under the weight of the piles of bags of soiled bottoms.
I just don't have the commitment for a protracted project of any kind. It is so much easier to book a couple of weeks off, preferable when it's warm (less washing if they are just knicker-less) and timed to coincide with the other children's school holidays and to get ready a mop bucket! But no, as with all great dictators, that girl will do it her own way and in her own time, whether it makes sense or not!