My aged companion, Crisp, observed the blue building and remarked it looked a lot like her Aunt Aggie’s outhouse.
“Aunt Aggie was into things big and grand,” said Crisp, “Her dunny was something you saw as soon as you turned into her property. Though Aggie had hers painted red.”
I made mention that the brochure said it was a mill.
“But wouldn’t it make a great dunny, just think you could swing a cat round in there.”
I didn’t think that was a virtue of any outhouse I’d ever visited, I was more into the functionality side of things.
“Aunt Aggie had the best selection of reading material too. You could settle in well and truly. Used to drive her crazy when she wanted to go, and I was half way through an article in the Women’s Weekly.”
“Sometimes Crisp,” I said, “I’m sure you make up half of this stuff.”
She looked at me in wonderment.
“Not a word of a lie,” she announced as she strode off.
Written for: https://crispinakemp.com/2020/02/19/crimsons-creative-challenge-67/
Morpethroad 
Not lies but surely exaggeration! 😛
Thanks Sadje. I think it was you who put me onto a novel called an man called Ove’ I thoroughly enjoyed it. Excellent book. Thanks for that. 😀
You’re welcome, on both accounts. 🙏
Sounds like Aunt Aggie would’ve gotten on well with my gran. 🙂 And now I’ll won’t see that mill without thinking of dunnies…. or charlie-house in my grandmother’s vernacular. 🙂
“Charlie-house? That’s a new one for me.
It was always that… no idea of the origin. Althought in polite company (the vicar) it was the water closet.
We Aussie folk tend to be a bit more crass 😃
Grandma came from *a classy* family, but had fallen on hard times… which her family probably thought served her right for marrying a gypsy (he wasn’t gypsy-bred, but a horse-dealer who often travelled with them… and drank too much and gambled more and had a violent temper)
Good one Michael. I had elderly relatives with outside plumbing and no electricity!
Luckily I didn’t have to stay and never used it!!