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Like most things, the bathtub in my bedsit is too small for my body. If I lie down, my legs stick out of the water. If I sit up, only my legs fit in. It's old too, with a permanent black ring around the middle that no amount of scrubbing is getting off.
I start with a cold bath. I run the tap the coldest it'll go, fill her up and dump in two bags of ice cubes I bought from the local supermarket.
I remove my clothes. Everything aching. I look at the ice floating on the surface of the water. Psyche myself up, hook a leg over and plant a foot in the water.
Christ, it's freezing. What the hell am I doing?
Nothing I haven't done before.
I climb in and squat over the surface. Have to do it fast. If you lower in slow, the ice water plays merry hell with your balls.
I count to three and
