Unisex toilets, Weymouth

Public toilets have many names in the UK. It's almost as if we are so embarrassed by their existence that we must cast about for a word or words that causes least offence. The most basic names identify them by the gender for whome they are intended, and "Unisex", as on these nautical-look beach front toilets at Weymouth, Dorset, is considerably less common than the widespread "Ladies" and "Gentlemen". For more on this subject, and a reasonably comprehensive list of UK toilet names, have a look at my post of 2006 on PhotoReflect entitled "What do you call it?"

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Nikon Z 5

Striking wall tiles

Fashions in wall tiles come and go, and the longer you live the more revivals you see. Square tiles often make a reappearance after a spell of vertical or horizontal rectangular tiles. Black and white in one form or another come around every few years, and bevel edged tiles seem to crop up as soon as people have forgotten about them. I recently went into a toilet where black and white square tiles were predominant. However, to give them an original touch and to banish any memory of the last time such a colour scheme was popular the designer had inserted an occasional crimson red tile. It worked insofar as it certainly caught my eye and prompted this photograph. Whether I could live with it for very long is quite another matter.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Phone