I was going to say No. 1 but, as you will soon discover, that would have been an unfortunate pun; ditto for No. 2.

We recently renovated one of the rooms in our home. It is the smallest room, known variously in these parts as the toilet, little (boys/girls) room, dunny and, on house plans, W.C., as in Water Closet, not Fields. My American daughter-in-law, Sara, calls it the ‘bathroom’, the name we use for the room with the bath or shower. So, our granddaughter will receive ‘potty’, as distinct from ‘toilet’, training.

I could go on but enough technical talk already!

With a shiny new, ahem, ‘appliance’, new floor tiles and a fresh paint job, we decided that the room was worthy of some decorative elements. After a bit of thinking and discussion, we settled on a rolling series of photos from our travels, mounted and framed by a craftsperson.

We have begun with our visit to France in the northern winter of 2009/10. Here are the seven photos we selected.

Group 1

View from the Eiffel Tower across Trocadero to La Defense

Snow falling outside our hotel window, fifth morning in Paris

The Thinker, under snow, in the garden of Musee Rodin

Group 2

Lit up like a Christmas Tree, December 2009

Supper spoils from a local charcuterie

Group 3

Hilltop town of St Paul de Vence, Cote d’Azur

Lunch, shucked to order, St Tropez

This will be a series of very occasional posts, as we will be in no particular hurry to move on to the next group of photos. We will just savour these until we are replete.