Last week I went to Manchester to meet Louise Bolotin and Mario of Someone Once Told Me at Futuresonic festival. Quite what the other festival go-ers made of our unhealthy interest in the disabled toilets I'm not sure, certainly the poor man who I insisted had to wait whilst I finished photographing an empty loo looked at me as though I was a tad nutty. Ok, so there are some issues, such as the pull cord being wrapped around the hand bars, or tied up out of the reach of someone on the floor, but these disabled loo's are about the best I've ever seen!
Sent in by BSS reader Louise, this is the disabled toilet at The Crown in Digbeth, Birmingham. Apparently it was clean which is a bonus considering the state of most disabled loo's, but looks like someone somewhere has seriously misunderstood what a disabled toilet is for.....
...And no, it's not for shagging, snorting or storing. Just in case anyone wondered!
While I'm at it, if anyone has sent me photos of disabled toilets and I've not published them so far, that is because I'm ridiculously scatty and have inevitably lost them. Sorry! All contributions welcomed and I promise to try not to lose them.
Today I've achieved that resolution, my article has been published here, on the BBC's disability website Ouch.
You'll have to wait until I achieve the second for me to admit what it is!
For anyone visiting this site for the first time as a result of the Ouch article, Hello! These are the posts I'd recommend you read: A Question of Chance
In praise of benefit fraud is a must read post about the hypocrisy of James Purnell and the whole 'benefit fraudsters' campaigns conducted in recent years.
