Lavatorial

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Bogspot with Frank Hovis.

I always found the word 'blog' quite a revolting word, it sounded to me like something nasty you might expect to find lurking in the public lavatories at Euston station. (Of course, last year the public lavatories at Euston were completely revamped and they are now a very pleasant place to have a poo-poo or a wee-wee.)

There are only two major drawbacks about the revamped Euston station public lavatories that I can find so far:

Number 1) it is possible to see directly into the gentlemen's cubicle area if you are loitering outside the entrance, but the same is not true of the ladies' loos.

Number 2) for older people like me who can remember which side of the entrance (right, as it happens) the gents at Euston used to be on, it can be very embarrassing if, after a few pints, you decide to go for a poo-poo and accidentally use the ladies' by mistake. They've swapped them around you see - it is the ladies' loos that are now on the right-hand side.

Anyway, I won't be reviewing the Eustion station public lavs this week - although of course I will get around to them soon enough. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have reviewed, documented, photographed and of course blocked the public lavatories at Liverpool Street station. And that will be the main function of this blog - to provide you, ladies and gentlemen, with a thoroughly comprehensive guide to London's public lavatories.

Every week I hope to re-visit all the London loos of my childhood and let you know all the vital information about them - entrance fees (Liverpool Street now costs 30 pence if you want to do a wee-wee!), blockage reports, indispensible information about loo-roll dispensers, interviews with the toilet-cleaning staff, reviews of Dyson Airblades and so on. I'll also be posting videos, Frank Zappa bottom-themed songs of the week, choice entries from the Profanisaurus, etc.

Good night, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you.