On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:53:41 +0000, Simon Hawthorne
wrote:

Now this might sound stupid to you but I've only just
noticed there is no overflow on the cistern.

I noticed something similar on our bungalow in Northern Ireland. The
cack-handed plumber had run the pipe into the wall cavity of an
internal wall and just stopped it there !

Far from the worst bodge committed on that nightmare too.