You had forgotten that too???? Dear me, last night has a lot to answer for!

Hehe!

I think I'll go and have a quick bath now

Are you sure if you feel shivery and then warm?

Is it not a good idea?

Unless it's a luke warm bath probably not a good idea.

I have to agree with YAP on this one!

Our water tastes of chlorine - I'd much rather it WAS tasteless....

One of the things I miss about home - the town's water was from a bore hole. Lovely soft taste, better than a lot of mineral water really. Makes wonderful tea and coffee too.

Manchester water is good.

oooh... sounds good.

mine in the village where I grew up was hard and chlorine-y... ick... and here it's even worse! ho hum. plus hard water is naff for hair, especially if your hair is curly... which mine VERY much is!

Never had Manchester water. Devon water is great for hair... I seem to remember it tastes OK too. I don't recall Durham water was anything special... I don't remember!

Wiltshire water is naff. We occasionally get the odd bit of chlorine running through, and it's really hard and limescaley..ironing is a problem, whenever you try to steam something, your clothes get convered in little stupid bits of limescale.....chlorine water can be quite refreshing however....

Just down the road, they have better water than us *shakes fist in the general Bratton direction* which isn't fair.

We have horrible water in our kitchen-too much chlorine, but if you go 5 steps down the hall to our bathroom, the water's really nice!

I know the instructions with modern steam irons tell you that it's OK to use tap water, but I prefer distilled water. Whenever you defrost a fridge (they don't need it much nowadays) or a freezer, the ice melts into distilled water, because it has condensed from atmospheric water vapour. The only problem is that if you keep it for more than a week or two, it gets a green colour from algae that live on sunlight, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and what minimal quantities of minerals and nitrates the water still contains or gets from the container.

That's interesting. You should be on QI

We still have to defrost one of our freezers....

I notice the difference too - guess it's 'coz the kitchen water's coming in straight from the mains and the bathroom water's from the tank in the loft that gets to sit a bit

Random fact: all the mains water in the UK that goes into a house is drinkable, but we only drink 1% of it.

33% of Germany's water is dirty water polluted with washing powder and or soap!

bleh....