Not sure about open-door toilet policy
HINCKLEY now has loos with a view but it’s not a sight many would want to see. After mention last week in this column of open doors the borough council have gone a stage further and done away with them altogether.
The cubicles in the gents toilets (and I presume in these equality times in the ladies’ as well although I cannot speak from personal experience of course) on Station Road are now open fronted, allowing views of the urinals and the other way.
It must have been announced and it has probably been done to eradicate graffiti as the walls are lovely and clean but it had passed me by when I had occasion to use them last week.
Thankfully for all concerned it was a quiet period and I was able to get my business done before a man came in to “spend a penny” and was thus spared seeing me on the throne, as it were.
Open area changing rooms may be one thing but surely some things should be private. This type of cubicle has always been commonly referred to as “traps” and one certainly feels like a greyhound poised for the off! Ready relic In a raffle last week I won something that in generations to come, if not the present one, is destined to become an historic relic.
It was three photo frames, a lovely prize, but how many take prints nowadays? Phone cameras are very handy but I think there is something more permanent and special about a proper picture or is it just me?
Knowing my feelings my elder stepson does send me prints of my step grand-daughter but I suspect he is in a minority.
I’ll hang on to the frames as they might well find a place in a 22nd century edition of the Antiques Roadshow or its then equivalent. Classic comedy How good to see Round The Horne in the top three in the Radio Times 30 greatest programmes of all time, voted for by readers.
It was classic comedy, years ahead of its time and has remained in the memories of all who loved it.
It ran for only four series on the old Light Programme channel from 1965 to 1968, 51 years ago and yet just seeing the results brought back to me Kenneth Williams portrayal of Rambling Sid Rumpo’s nonsensical but hilarious folk song lyrics as well as the same actor’s partnership with Hugh Paddick about the camp goings-on of characters Julian and Sandy.
Of course there were double entendres by the score in both items and a lot of its humour was of its time and would possibly not be allowed today but it was great.
Just ahead of RTH in the results was The Archers, the everyday story of country folk, a serial I have dipped in and out of a number of times in my life but must admit I’ve not tuned into for a year or two. Perhaps I should try it again. Emails engaged Thanks to all those who enquired about my lack of email service on a laptop.
The problem was solved early last week when a man I was recommended fixed it in next to no time. My thanks to him.
It was JD before I knew it.