A few weeks ago we lent our Cotswold cottage to friends and family, which explains why our plumbing thought it would be a perfect time to go on the fritz. An emergency plumber was summoned on a Sunday, but the required parts weren’t available until Monday. Our guests were exceedingly good humored about the 24-hour toilet outage and took it upon themselves to document this guide to public loos of the Cotswolds. (Normally I would take full responsibility for a bad pun, but Wee Dunnit is so gloriously bad—by which, of course, I mean good—that I have to give credit to our guest, Julie Henderson, for it.)
WEE DUNNIT IN:
A PUB TOILET at THE HOLLOW BOTTOM, GUITING POWER, with a copy of The Racing Post
A BOOKIES’ TOILET at FRED DONES, CHELTENHAM, after placing a winning bet
A DISABLED TOILET at CHELTENHAM HOSPITAL, with The Daily Mirror and an umbrella
A BAR TOILET at JOHN GORDONS, CHELTENHAM, before a bottle of Picpoul and a Pieminister pie
A PUB TOILET at THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER, never to be repeated
A SHOP TOILET at FOOD FANATICS, WINCHCOMBE, before a damson and sloe gin ice cream
THE PUBLIC TOILETS in THE MARKET PLACE, NORTHLEACH, with a smile for the BBC film crew who were there shooting J.K. Rowling’s A Casual Vacancy
A BAR TOILET at COPA, CHELTENHAM, after taking advantage of the sales in Jigsaw and Monsoon
A PUB TOILET at YATES’S, CHELTENHAM, at the top of a never-ending stairway
A PUB TOILET at THE WHEATSHEAF INN, NORTHLEACH, before a cheese soufflé and some hake
A BAR TOILET at THE OX HOUSE, NORTHLEACH, after mistakenly walking into the office
THE GARDEN at DROVERS COTTAGE, NORTHLEACH, (discreetly) with a stifled laugh