Most cities are eclectic. There's a bit of medieval, Georgian, some Victorian and some 20th century. That's fine. Bath is different because it was built within 100 years or less. It has a homogeneity.
My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.
I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and idyllic.
I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience.
There is just something about starting your day with something luxurious like a bath.
I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.
And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.
Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.
Bath was hardly known for its rockβn roll. We werenβt part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.
I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
What kind of grandmother am I? I'm a 'three-dessert' grandmother. I'm a 'let's just skip the bath tonight, honey, watch another video' grandmother.
To unwind, I like to have a relaxing bath.