Cross legged in MelroseThere is an exercise recommended on men only medical websites which involves stopping and starting the flow of urine in mid-stream, as it were. It does good, apparently, to those male useful muscle parts which physios don't usually reach.
Problem with Melrose is the starting of the urination, not its interruption. There is a public loo, tucked away to the extent that the Pharmacist we asked did not know its whereabouts.' I've only been here 5 years' she explained apologetically (What a bladder, Ma'am!) But once found it is Robin Hood time. 30p! In pre-decimal times -as recently as 1971-a P was a D One Penny in old money-1/2p now. 600% inflation, or thereabouts. In Berwick, its 20 p a slash. And with bus loads of tourists, mostly elderly, doing the Melrose Abbey, the Loo must make a roaring profit-The Road to Roaring Water* you might well describe the approaches to the high spot of your visit to the town. I wonder how many prostated Males relieve themselves behind the grave stones or in the old Refractory. 30p! I ask you.
One elderly tourist to Loo Keeper' Absurd. A rip off! I can pee cheaper in England'
LK 'On your way Laddie-its about 30 miles'
* Obscure literary allusion (Blog-ed)
