It's been a long time since I've done a loo loo post. Thanks to a little London meetup with @steevc and @adetorrent yesterday, I found the perfect opportunity. More on that in a minute, let's look at the loos first. I was warned by @adetorrent that the men's loo was very special and he was interested to know if the ladies were the same. Intriguing... I was looking forward to see what was in store.
Wow! Dramatic, eccentric, Victorian, maximalism were the first things that came to mind. The brass peacock and real feather decor opposite the door was so exquisite and caught my eye as I entered. I had always wanted a bowl style basin, and a chest of library catalogue style drawers at home, but not necessarily in the same room. Here, everything seem to clash with each other, yet they look so content and perfect together.
More surprises on the doors of the six cubicles opposite the wash basin. Each one was adorned with items from nature. Shells, insect , feather, plants etc. Someone had been busy collecting specimen.
I randomly choose a cubicle, it was the plant one. There were many different types of plants here, and different parts of the plants - leaves, flower, stalk etc. A lot of effort was made to catalogue them for display. If you needed to spend a bit more time in here, you definitely wouldn't be bored, loads to look at.
Afterwards more people came into the toilet and I couldn't take a more detailed look at the displays. The feathers one looked very interesting and I would have loved to mooch around more.
And before I left, I couldn't resist taking another photo of the butterfly cubicle. It's so beautiful.
I went back to show the guys my find, but apparently the gents loo are totally different. "Adult" and "lewd" are how @adetorrent describe it. You can check out his post here and if you look carefully you might find a little bit of the gent's loo.
Meetup
I mentioned earlier one, I met up with @adetorrent and @steevc. It was in a eclectic Victorian themed pub in London
I have met Steve before but not Ade, though of course I know him on chain. It was very nice to learn more about the guys, and I had a great evening chatting to them. I hope we can do these meetups more often.
