Fascinating Facts about Bath

Even though there is a Bath City, there is no Shower City, Bidet City or Toilet City (unless Corby somehow succeeds in their barmy plan to become a city of course).

Bath City was almost eclipsed by Team Bath a few years ago.  That's a bit like Kettering United overhauling the Poppies in the pecking order.  A ridiculous idea that looks unlikely to happen for at least a couple of years.

This caption was written before the
photograph was chosen, but I doubt you're
looking at a frumpy former Tory MP.

Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Along with the Great Wall of China.  The Great Barrier Reef.  Stonehenge.  Canterbury Cathedral, and various other locations around the world.  The selection criteria to become a "World Heritage Site" uses such terms as "masterpiece of human creative genius", and "to contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance".  We have proposed the Kettering Heritage Quarter, but have yet to hear back...


Bath features in every single novel written in the 19th century when the idle bastards who used to mince around while the rest of us toiled to death in the fields "took the water", or "spent the season" twitching their fans and pantaloons at one another.

Two polar opposites of female were both born in Bath.  One was the evil monster currently undergoing an unfathomable bout of popularity due to inability to move in any coordinated way - Ann Widdecombe, and the other is the second most attractive woman on God's green earth - Indira Varma.  One of these ladies' photographs will no doubt appear on this blog....