Public baths

I completely agree and have often thought the same. My mum can't get upstairs and no bathroom downstairs (only loo). She would soooo love to have a bath. Can't find anyone with downstairs, suitable facilities to borrow.

We didn’t have a bathroom or inside toilet when I was a child and I can remember going to a public baths when I was a teenager: I took some bubble bath with me. From memory it was tiled and very Victorian looking. My aunt then moved into a pensioners bungalow with a bathroom and I used to go there for a bath.

I have just got out of a hot bath.After a nine mile walk a cuppa in the bath is a perfect tonic.

I remember as a student in Glasgow in the late 70s/early 80s going to the baths at Central Station - it was wonderful! The baths were spotless and you got a wee bar of soap, a disposable floor mat and a huge towel. You could wallow in a hot, deep bath which was never possible in the grotty student flats. The ladies in charge were very friendly too. I do recall going once and there were no baths available so I opted for a shower instead. When I turned it on the jets were so strong I felt like I was being prodded by very hot needles! I had forgotten all about the baths at Central Station until reading this thread.

What a strange idea that having a bath means sitting in ‘your own muck’!

I once lived in (part of) a Victorian house with a massive cast iron bath - and a fireplace too! I had lovely long soaks in that with the fire roaring opposite - bliss!

My friend has a self-contained bathroom 'pod' in her garage and the bath is a walk-in type. Her mother (who lives in a flat with just a shower) has a Sunday luxury dip in that - although I think they're very expensive.

I only have an occasional soak in the bath, it’s a luxury rather than a cleanse! But the idea of a hot tub, ie sitting in a bath with (or after!) other people as I’ve seen in some adverts, is disgusting to me.

Quokka

What a strange idea that having a bath means sitting in ‘your own muck’!

They must have been dirty buggers when they got in.

IrishDancing, - agree, you have to add chemicals to the water, rather like the chlorine in a swimming pool. Chlorine gives me a rash - and the idea of 'dirt soup' from others puts me right off!

MerylStreep

Quokka

What a strange idea that having a bath means sitting in ‘your own muck’!

They must have been dirty buggers when they got in.

That's what I was thinking .

I love a hot bath, preferably with oil in, or nicely scented bubbles, and have one most nights. I like the bedroom to be cool and me to be warm, and the best way is to put a couple of drops of scented oil on the hot stone in the bedroom, run the bath, soak for a while, and get into bed in a scented bedroom.

If it's cold as opposed to cool, I switch the electric blanket on whilst I'm in the bath, too. I try to use the same few oils, so that I associate them with sleep, as I can suffer from insomnia at times.

Hetty - I'm not sure what you mean about putting chemicals in a bath?

This is Ray Winstone in a public bath in Quadrophenia. Not a petri dish in sight

NotSpaghetti In a hot tub (not a bath) - then, when you empty it, the water has to go down a drain and not on the garden - as the plants would suffer!

Unfortunately I gave them up after suffering a 10 day cold afterwards. Maybe I made the water too hot. No regrets as I would really struggle to stand up now from a sitting position.

My Japanese friend told me that they they wash before getting into a bath to soak.

Oh, I see you were talking about hot-tubs Hetty.
I thought it was to do with public baths!