Reblogged from Jim Webster at Tallis Steelyard:
It has to be said that I never heard this tale of Maljie’s past from the lady in person. This one I had from Laxey, the sub-Hierodeacon. It has to be confessed that like Temple Wardens, the various levels of the hierodeaconate are chosen not for their overwhelming spirituality, but because they are useful when it comes to hewing wood, drawing water, and intimidating the inappropriately rumbustious. Still, Laxey told me this story, shortly before he disappeared on a week-long silent retreat. Given that there may have been fasting involved, it could be that his superiors considered the exercise to be more penitential than spiritual.
This tale, if I understand Laxey aright, probably comes during the period after Maljie’s mother had inadvertently misplaced both husband and fortune. Because of this oversight on her part the family were forced to relocate to less salubrious surroundings. Notwithstanding the family’s failing fortunes, Maljie’s mother seems to have decided to keep up standards, and amongst the possessions she managed to salvage from her old home was ‘the bath.’
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Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
nothing like a leisurely bath 🙂
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Nothing at all, apparently! Fair puts my own ablutions to hte blush 😉
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I trust you’ve never had to exit in such a fashion 🙂
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Thankfully no… 😉
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I suppose it would cause comment locally
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I cause enough of those as it is 😉
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Good
It’s your duty to provide a little colour and interest into the lives of those who obviously have neither 🙂
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One does one’s best 😉
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and does it so well? 🙂
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That cracked me up…
This has been said before… my halo must have slipped 😉
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My mother used to say, “Be careful or your halo will slip round your neck and choke you” 🙂
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Not even sanctity is safe 😉
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especially not sanctity 🙂
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😀
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