Messy!

I saw this sign in the public toilets in Kirkwall today.  I wondered what visitors make of it!

A blackening is a very messy pre-wedding tradition, in which the bride or groom-to-be is waylaid by their friends and  "blackened" using a messy mixture that usually contains treacle, flour, feathers, eggs or any other substance to hand. They are then driven round the town in the back of an open truck, with lots of drink and noise.  They are traditionally left tied to the Merkit Cross outside the cathedral, which would explain why the nearest public toilets would be used for the cleaning up operation!

Read more about it here!  Blackening