Category Archives: Bath

It was never a religion. And its adherents were too old when they joined to form a gene pool; they weren’t a race. Although they were mostly women, they were nothing like witches. They weren’t a service club either. But … Continue reading →

A thousand years or so ago, back when the village of Bath was settled by water-loving grandmas, a tiny culture was born. At no other time or place in recorded history was there such a concentration of like-minded bathers and, … Continue reading →

In the olden days, in Northern Europe, people didn’t bathe much. There are legends about birthday and wedding day immersions – and those were it, till death invited the ritual cleansing of the corpse (typical backward tradition: care for the … Continue reading →