The bathroom facilities in our house have gone from bad to almost nonexistent.

Until yesterday we had an extremely ugly, extremely yellow toilet which did not work due to the insertion many years ago of an unknown toy or some item of clothing by an unidentified child; an extremely ugly, extremely avacodo toilet in our en-suite bathroom which was difficult to flush, had to be turned on and off if you wanted to flush it as the tap leaked and there was some good reason why we could not repair the tap; and an extremely ugly, extremely blue toilet which was actually operational.

Just for luck, the avacodo toilet also had a cracked cistern and a detachable seat (which had the habit of detaching while in use).

At this point, the extremely ugly, extremely yellow and the extremely ugly, extremely blue toilets are located behind a temporary wooden builders' wall. One can access these facilities by climbing through a hole in the external wall approximately half a metre by half a meter, or one can enjoy the challenges and surprizes of the avacodo facilities.

One can also make use of the toilet in the granny flat, accessed across a half-built kitchen foundation wall and a large pile of mud and rubble.