The "up" side of being 5 foot nothing ...

There aren't a lot of benefits to being a red-headed midget.

Rock concerts mean a fantastic view of sweaty armpits. Lengthy conversations with most people older than ten involve a crick in the neck. Any clothes I buy generally require at least 4 inches pruned off the bottom before they're wearable. I gave up teaching Brownies when I was 17 as most of them (7 - 10) outgrew me ...

We have no hot water. Well, we do everywhere in the house except in the shower. Which has necessitated the having of baths (the hot tap in the bath is immediately under the hot tap in the shower, and it gushes forth with copious amounts of steaming hot water ... alas, it reaches not the shower head).

I'm not a huge bath fan. I don't understand the rapture with which some people (the MOTH included) greet the thought of spending an hour in the dark immersed in rapidly cooling water, watching your fingers turn prune-ish.

I've had two baths in as many days (it's either that or ice cold showers). And I can fit the whole five foot nothing of me lying down, stretched full length in the bath, with no knees or elbows sticking out !!

The MOTH might be able to reach the top shelf at the supermarket, but even he can't do that !!! :P