I have come to a profound appreciation of the skill of the architect who laid out this penthouse palace of fun.
Our bathroom is so cunningly arranged that even with its door wide open none of the windows anywhere in the flat affords a compromising prospect of the bather. This makes it possible simultaneously to bathe in the steaming water of the bath and the golden glow of the setting sun.
On the other hand the sedate incumbent of the great porcelain throne is granted commanding views of the surrounding rivermeadows and the circumabient - at least, what in these vertically challenged parts pass for - hills.
And before anyone asks, standing up.