I recall a Mess Meeting when we were asked to approve the cost of new curtains in the 'Ladies' Room' (remember those?). One chap stood up and asked whether we could instead vote for plumbing repairs in the single rooms, whereupon OC Bogs and Drains retorted that such a comment was inappropriate. Uproar followed and the 'Ladies' Room' only got its new curtains shortly before the Gorbachev visit many years later. Funny that.
Did they ever fix that dreadful murky brown water which would flow from the cold taps unless the water had been run for several minutes?