to think the designers were having a sneaky laugh at this one?

[booyhoo]

i mean the ones that designed my house and all the others in this cul-de-sac. they put the downstairs loo at the front of the house so that i either have to sit in the dark or turn the light on and let all my neighbours know I'm doing a poo. i have a blind but i know from seeing my neighbours silhouettes that it is still easy to see that i am sitting on the loo. if i go upstairs it wakes the dcs. thanks for that lovely designer person.

Get a black out blind so they can't see your silhouette?

it's cheaper to sit in the dark

Get one of those sunshine jars that are solar renewable lights, just give off a bit of a glow. Leave it in the window or near to it (but not the other side of the loo!) so it always recharges, gives you a bit of light to go to the loo by but not enough to cause any shadows, and will be always on in the evening so they won't see you switching the light on in the same way as for a normal light...

Is there a mysterious reason why you have to go in secret? Do your neighbours assess your downstairs bathroom usage? Perhaps time you?

Or do you just mean you don't like using it from when it gets dark regardless of what time it is?

I don't have a downstairs loo [sobs] but my mum does and it's at the front of the house (so it the bathroom) and I have never once thought OMG! Everyone will know I'm in the bathroom!!!

Um. You are over thinking this.

EVERYONE goes to the loo. We all do poos.

They are not watching or timing you.

"Oh, look Mary. That is booyhoo off to the loo again. Second time this morning. Wonder if she has a dose of the runs. She was in there for 12.5 minutes earlier"

Blimey, your children must be incredibly light sleepers if they get woken up by someone using the toilet. Even an earthquake doesn't wake DD up once she reaches the land of nod.

LOL at your post MmeLindt!

Well, it is still dark so I had better go to the front window on toilet watch

I remember a summer evening church garden party which was enlivened by the silhouette of many a lady tossing her squirts in the air as she mounted the loo!

Skirts

I preferred squirts

Tell your neighbours that you are doing an OU course, and that you have converted the downstairs loo into an office. Then whoever is on poo watch will record you as 'studying' not 'pooing' and your blushes will be saved.

We also have a downstairs loo at the front of the house - but it has never occurred to me that people may be scrutinising my loo habits......

In my house the downstairs loo is at the back at the side. And so is the nextdoor neighbour's loo. ONly about 6 feet apart (at the most). Very intimate when you realise you're on the loo and they're on the loo too only a few feet away and they know it and you know it.

(this takes my mind off the IMF and the bailout)

A "downstairs loo" is often by the front door, for convenience (running in after shopping) and snobbery (allowing "tradesmen" to use it, or allowing friends/neighbours to use it without penetrating into the more personal messy areas of your home bombsite).

Sorry to be obnoxious about this!

P.S. I like the nightlight/Sun-in-a-jar idea!

Is your back garden overlooked? Perhaps that would be the best way of avoiding detection AND saving on your water bill.

Of course everyone notices...you can set your watch by my neighbours 8:25am poo.

CAN YOU hear his paper rustling? Is it a broadsheet or a tabloid? Ican tell by the rustle you know..

pmsl at "poowatch"

Worse still is downstairs loos where the window opens onto the garden where a BBQ is in full swing.

I find even having a wee mortifying tbh, and get stage fright. BooyHoo, I'd go in the dark.

One of our neighbours's flats is like this, and as the ground floor is lower than the pavement that runs about 4 foot away from the window, you can see her lowering her arse as she backs onto the loo at your head height, if you time it right!!

They have obscure glass in the window but in the daytime, with no lights on, it's SO obvious....haven't got the heart to tell her!

My sister's neighbour has a bathroom at the front of the house. You can see the husband standing to do a pee and the little jiggle he does to shake at the end. What's truly bad, though, is that he doesn't wash his hands afterwards. Worse than that, he's their postman! Not sure I'd want to touch my post, knowing that.

YANBU
We have 3 toilets. I will only use 1 of them as the other two are right by windows which are on the front of the house and I get stage fright!

I never go to the toilet. THat sort of thing is only for vulgar people.