Good Morning

Waking early after a good night's sleep the Gorse Fox hit the shower at 6:30. This is when the next draw-back of the hotel became evident. Most hotels now have water systems that balance the hot and cold feeds, and have anti-scald valves. Also, they have ventilators to extract steam from the bathrooms.

Last night's hotel had none of these features. This meant that as the bathroom slowly filled with steam, the shower fluctuated between stone cold and scalding hot as other residents flushed toilets and ran water to wash or shave. Now this could be be viewed as apalling, but the Gorse Fox is ever an optimist, and he saw this as an opportunity to get some early morning exercise running back and forth, in and out of the fluctuating stream.