Red letter day, today - guess what, I had a shower! Need a rest now, but pleased I managed it at last, must be three weeks since my last one. Not that I felt dirty but fresher. I read we don't need a daily shower, three times a week is enough! Not if you are a coal miner!
Son Martin and wife have gone off to Alicanti today, hope his hernia op is healed enough and they don't do too much walking. Love Iris x
Bet you are feeling fresh as a daisy! Coal miner , brought back memories of the weekly Friday tin bath in front of roaring coal fire.😁
Hooray! Someone else besides me that recalls a tin bath! Ours was kept in the yard outside and at bathtime it made a racket being lifted from its hook and manoeuvred into the scullery! The road must have heard it!
Scullery , a great word , rarely used now , but oh how that was the heart of the home.As for tin bath , ours was kept in the original coal bunker!
We had a scullery too. It was really a tiny kitchen wasn’t it? There was a deep, grey stone sink, a wooden(?) draining board, the cooker and I’ve just remembered......the coal bunker! which was later turned into a cupboard I think.
Our coal was kept in the cupboard under the stairs.as the coalman delivered each sack he had to turn at the bottom of the stairs and often brushed the wallpaper with the dusty sack! Later Dad put up a Concrete bunker in the tiny front garden. x
Great memories eh ,, we had 2 deep Belfast sinks , our wooden draining board was actually a scrubber for washing clothes especially days of cloth nappies . I remember my mum & grans hands red raw from scrubbing.
That's a real achievement Iris, glad you feel better for it.
It's fair to say that over bathing dries your skin unless, as you say, you have an occupation that calls for it.
Hope your son and daughter in law have a good holiday. xx
That’s wonderful Iris. You must feel really good about that. The coal miner quip made me laugh. Wishing your son and wife a brilliant holiday. We like Alicante and the surrounding area. Fingers crossed all goes well.
Enjoy your day. Xxx❤️❤️❤️
So glad you feel better, enough to have a shower means your on the road to recovery. Your son will have a wonderful time resting in the sun and ambling round the place. Luckily no tin baths anymore ha!
Good for you Iris. I'm definitely not a fan of using shower gel all over, just a sponge with warm water is enough especially if you have dry skin. Only wash my hair every 6 days too & it never gets oily. My sis washes it every day. My son in law washed-up hair and showers twice a day (he works from home), brought up by a clean freak mother 🤐
Brought up in the war so a bath was the tin bath, me first, then mum and last of all dad, the bricklayer. And hope the siren didn't go off! Then emptied bucket by bucket, wiped out and hung back on its nail in the yard.
Those tin baths are valuable now Iris costing ££££ in brick a brac shops & bought as planters x
We had a proper bath by then but the War Office only allowed 5 inches of water. bbc.co.uk/history/ww2people...
In the early fifties I met Tony and he lived with his parents in a recently built sweet shop. They had a bathroom and I was allowed to take a bath there whenever I wanted. Tony used to quietly open the door when I was in the bath - to see if I needed anything, of course!
Watched Gardeners World ….I am sure the planters they used were galvanised baby baths . Brought back memories of my childhood baths in front of the fire. My grandmother brought up in a household of miners and the tin bath rejoiced when the landlord installed a bath with inside water supply ….in the kitchen , mind you , with a board on top used as a table.
Well done you, I bet you feel so much better now. I'm going to attempt a shower later so hopefully I will be fine, I will let you know. Have a good day and take care 😊 Bernadette and Jack 🐕 xxxxxx
Yeah a Saturday special before the Sunday special. Enjoy feeling fresh and clean Iris and I hope the rest of your day is equally reinvigorating. Love Skis and Scruffs 🙂😻xx
Lol...my village is an old mining village and I grew up on stories of the youngest child being the last in the tin bath! Happily I missed that joy but with six brothers and one sister my youngest brother would not have been happy in those times.
Dad was the dirtiest, so he was last. Being an only child i was spoilt, first in the clean water! Not sure how grandad managed, he lived with us for a while after being injured in Ww1.
Lol. Old military men can bath in a mess tin full of water and being ex military I have done it.
Quite exhausting but worthwhile once done and dusted! Hope you relaxed with a cuppa to revive yourself xxx 😊
Sounds like your getting there, nothing like a shower to feel fresher. I know when I was in Hosp last year and had to go to rehab one of the first things I did was have a shower, even if I did need help.
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J
Well done! You must feel great now - tired, but clean and fresh as a daisy! It's rotten when you can't get under the water, isn't it? xx Moy
Its Tony's birthday today - 92 and we are invited to my son's house next door for tea and cake, so my hair is going to get a wash!
Happy birthday Tony 🎂🎈🎁 I hope you all have a lovely day 🎉
I know how you feel a few years ago when in hospital and I had been unwell on and off for about 2 years I had my first shower for a long long time if was wonderful even if I had to be helped by a male nurse I would never have believed I could be so thankful for help from a male nurse I still remember the total exhaustion and although the chronic fatigue hits me few times a month I was so happy to feel clean. Take care Mags
That's good news Lyd12, about the shower, its amazing how much better it makes you feel after a long time of not being able to have one. Just like having your hair done boosts the moral. When I broke my foot my hairdresser came and took me by car to the salon for around 6 weeks, treated her to a bottle of wine each time for the extra service. So smiles all roundx
You definitely don’t need a shower every day. It’s very drying on aging skin. As a child I got a bath once a week and I don’t think I ponged!
Hello Lyd..I.only shower once a week as I also find it exhausting and drying on the skin AND I don't smell...are you on Spain?I am I'm in Mallorca.
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