We've been fighting so hard it's been months since they've had a good tubbing, and a swim won't hurt them.

In order to hold back the water, the shaft had to be lined for about 115 yds with cast-iron tubbing, a slow and expensive operation.

Ice skating and hot tubbing are also available at Mammoth Hot Springs.

Zoe is afraid of being alone with Mr. H and doesn't know what to do when he asks her to go hot tubbing with him.

Commencing January 1910 the first freeze was unsuccessful and a second, after the shafts had iron "tubbing" installed, commenced in February 1911.

In an update to his blog, Barney pitches his ideas for events to improve the Winter Olympics, such as Hot Tubbing and Figure Rating.

That said, it will take one hell of a performance to beat Barcelona - and I'm not quite sure Real, with perhaps some psychological scars left deeply engrained after that 5-0 tubbing earlier in the season, are the team to provide it.

These days, in between editing the magazine The Believer (far left) and writing fiction ("The Effect of Living Backwards," center left, came out in 2003; her next book will be out in 2006 from Doubleday), Julavits makes annual tubbing trips to California.