© irene waters 2017
Thankfully there are not too many outhouses left in cities and towns these days. Out west they are still fairly common. As an Australian we used to call these the thunderbox or dunny and anyone my age growing up in a country town will remember the dunny man calling. Even an outer suburb of Sydney, Cowan, had the dunny man coming into the 1980s. Some towns such as Gloucester were designed for sensibilities to be kept intact with a lane at the rear of each house that the dunny man could use to collect the offerings you had left during the week. Naturally you had to be aware of red back spiders, snakes and the frogs that peered up from within when you lifted the lid.
© irene waters 2014
A more modern version using a composting toilet. This one makes me think of another euphimism used for the toilet – throne room.
© irene waters 2015
Some internal toilets aren’t much better than those outside
© irene waters 2017
Whilst in Sweden a flushing mechanism I’d never encountered had me taking photos of the WC.
© irene waters 2015
This lavatory was notable for the colour of the floor tiling.
© irene waters 2014
And this loo for blending in. ‘Loo” it is thought comes from the time of the Battle of Waterloo from a French term “gardyloo” which means watch out for the water. Something you’d want to do if you didn’t want the chamber pot emptied on your head.
© irene waters 2014
This crapper doesn’t allow for too much movement. Of course this slang term for toilet comes from Thomas Crapper who invented the flush toilet.
Post made for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
I really like your second photo. Wonderful entry Irene for this week.
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Me too. It was a throne room that you were happy to linger in.
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What a collection of throne rooms! Whenever my dad set up a logging camp, he’d dig a pit and perch an open-air box with a toilet seat over it. No dangerous critters to look for, but chipmunks could be startling.
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Have to laugh at the thought of a chipmunk keeping you company. For me that would be worse than any reptile or spider we could come up with.
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Often they’d chatter during a seated session!
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I’m giggling all through seeing these “rest rooms.” Thank heaven for our modern toilets – some os the these would have me running, And snakes in the bathroom – no thank you! Great photos though. You don’t say no to photographing anything, do you? Good for you!
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Nothing is sacred……no there are a few things.
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