water off this morning

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

bring back the 50g cold 25g hot storage .....

[Brian Gaff]

I still have mine, but of course you have to boil any water from the tank these days as you might get some horrible disease from it otherwise. Having said that for many years nobody ever bothered and are still here. Brian

[spuorgelgoog]

Mmmm, just about to have my morning bath.

Are you near Renfrew?

Owain

[Roger Hayter]

I am not sure that nobody ever bothered Tank water was regarded as ok for washing and cleaning teeth, but not for deliberately drinking or cooking when I was young. And I'm pretty sure that occasionally fishing out the dead rodents was routine before tank lids.

[Brian Gaff]

Ah ours always had a lid. Maybe a few dead insects are good for you? No I'm really referring to the act of brushing ones teeth in the bathroom where only tank water was available and still is and although I've swallowed it from time to time nothing seems to have happened to me at all, and back in the days of living in a flat in old Wandswarth as a family the water was from a tank several floors up the only mains water was a tap in the scullery near the copper. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

So why was the baby always the last one to use the bathwater, hence throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Brian

[The Natural Philosopher]

50 grams isnt enough to make a cup to tea with.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Blood in the bathwater meant another dead crow in the water tank

[Mike Clarke]

'Cos it wasn't toilet trained.

[Capitol]

I hope you mean gallons!

[Max Demian]

How do you get hold of the water in the hot tank?

[spuorgelgoog]

The gravity cold water in the cold water tank pushes it through.

Owain

[Brian Gaff]

Would you not, um make sure it was empty before you started though? Brian

[Brian Gaff]

He means gal one supposes. Brian

[Max Demian]

They are usually made so you can't drain the hot tank by tap so the immersion doesn't go dry.

[Roger Hayter]

But this design also arises from the desire to get the hot water (rises) first before the cold.

[Mike Clarke]

[re baby being the last one in the bath]

I was thinking of the old geordie mining families where the tin bath was brought in from the back yard, put in front of the living room fire and filled with hot water. Father, covered in coal dust from the pit, was first in the bath, then mother, then the children, each in progressively colder and dirtier water. It didn't get emptied until the end.

[www.GymRatZ.co.uk]

Babies would no doubt be covered in s*1t at the end of the month and.... big people would want hotter water whereas babies would want the coolest water by my reckoning. So babies last.