COLD BATHS
sick boys at his school to the sanatorium. He was sent off in it several times he says.
Picture shows it being loaded up recently for restoration.
Algy has e-mailed me with another tall story. (No Morning Tea, so he has to email.) He is trying to impress me with how tough his schooldays were.
He was sent to boarding School in England at the age of seven. Part of the toughening-up regime was to make the boys have a cold bath every morning at 06:30. In the winter there would be ice on the top of the water. They had to get their shoulders under it or they would be sent to the back of the queue of twenty boys. He believes that this regime was the reason why Britain ‘ruled the waves’ – and emerged victorious through so many conflicts.
If the boys were ill, they were hauled off to the Sanatorium in the old carriage pictured above. (The School is having the carriage restored, no doubt for another century of use.)
Stiff upper lip, chaps! Especially in this present crisis!
I am taking a break over Easter, I will be hanging about my compound, trying to spot a visitor and munching the odd banana. But I don’t fancy my luck. God willing, I will be back next Tuesday.
Have a Happy Easter! Enjoy social distancing!
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
The Chimp who Likes a Yarn
2 thoughts on “COLD BATHS”
Funny that. Now days the teacher get told by 7 year olds, “You can’t tell me what to do!” Maybe Algy is right, forced ice baths could be the path to social reform!
(I imagine the water was slightly warmer from all the other bodies by the time you got there again from the end of the line)
I asked Algy, Greg, via the net, because we too are “social distancing” and he said “not so that you’d notice! It shivered my timbers”. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
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