There are those who love and those who hate. They have one or they don’t. They book a hotel room based on the very thing and they need it desperately after a long hard day – the bath! For some it is the panacea that heals all ills, for others a whim and a totally unnecessary fixture.
My background dictated that I would view the bath as second nature. Growing up in England, all we had was a bath – no shower. People that had showers were either very posh or very strange. The first time I came across a shower I was about 14 and at a friend’s house- I couldn’t even get the weird thing to work – it was totally alien to me. Obviously there was no issue of drought or water bills or any other such things. In my young days, baths were got into at night to clean up, all ready for the next day. As I got older the same applied but they were used to prepare for a big night out or special date and took hours of luxuriating and preening to be ready.
Enter Australia and many years without the well know instrument of cleaning. I could see now how absolutely practical a shower was and impractical a bath could be. It is a strangely human psychology that dictates that when you don’t have something, you want it even more.
I finally got my bath again and have had one ever since. A house without a bath isnt really an option for me. I love the feeling of, after having a totally dreadful or physically challenging day, slipping into that blissfully warm water, cascading with scented bubbles. To accompany the experience, a glass of chilled white wine, and the subtlety of dim candle light.......BLISS!
Until next time
Maureen
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