I normally avoid messes but was, against my better judgement, pursuaded to use a mess at Warminster. Wow, back at least 20 years. Bedspread was overall brown with horizontal stripes - remember them?
Standard G-plan furniture circa 60s with the little bedside draw that your early morning tea would slide off. At least they solved that - no tea.
Standard black rexine covered desk with a top carved by generations of pongos chopping maps.
But the real strength was the ablutions. Bath, turn left and door on the right. Toilet, turn left, through firedoors, entrance hall, firedoors and down the next corriodor. Showers, like toilets as far as the hall then turn the other was through more firedoors.
Guess it didn't matter too much, being a pongo transit mess
Next time I am invited to an army mess - no way hozze