On the problems of an English bathroom in winter...

[sawyl]

As someone who also struggles with an arctic bathroom, I felt a certain rueful familiary with Jenny Davidson's description of some of the problems of having an English flat in winter — although, happily, I can't speak to the difficulties of shaving ones' legs in a cold room!

The bathroom has a funny shower like a sort of plastic telephone booth - the water is hot and fully pressured, so that's the most important thing, but the bathroom itself is huge and drafty and unheated, and it is impossible to shave legs either in the shower (because the water runs down your legs in such a thick curtain when you are bent over vertically) or out (because the goose-pimples from freezingness catch on the razor).

In previous years, when the winters have been particularly biting, I've dealt with this type of problem by going into work extremely early — there is a bus that gets there at around 6:45 — and using the showers there rather than enduring the near-zero temperatures of my bathroom...