SIR Paul McCartney has revealed he used to get washed on his Scots farm by plunging into a freezing tub used to clean COW MILKING tools.
The Beatles legend, 81, says he and late wife Linda had little choice as there was no shower or other facilities on the remote property in Kintyre.
He said: “There wasn’t a bath in this little farmhouse. But there was a big steel tub that they cleaned the milking equipment in.
“Bloody cold in the winter. We’d run in and we’d jump into this bath, which was not easy to get in but we were young and verile.
“We’d jump in this bath and have this fantastic Japanese style bath, so those were the kind of things we would do which I’d never done ever in my life.
“It was liberating.”
Sir Paul was speaking on the podcast McCartney, A Life in Lyrics.
Macca also told how he couldn’t understand the Scots accent when he first arrived at the steading in the 1960s – but devised a trick to get around it.
He said: “I was greeted by a nextdoor neighbour Ian McDougall who was very dour, a Scottish guy who spoke the Gaelic and was a very old farmer. Really a total stereotype.
“He said, ‘You’ll be the new laird’. I said ‘What?’. I could never understand him but I worked out the system of hanging on to the last word in the sentence.
“He’d say, ‘Mumble mumble sheep’. I’d go, ‘Aye, the sheep’.”
“‘Mumble mumble clipping’. ‘Aye, the clipping’.”
The Hey Jude singer bought High Park Farm in 1966 and still owns it to this day.
The couple repaired the farmhouse, grew their own vegatables and reared animals while trying to escape Beatlemania.
He said: “I sense a lot of people want that freedom, escaping the rat race. I think a lot of young people dream about that today still.”
Sir Paul famously wrote the 1977 hit Mull of Kintyre on the farm. The song featured a local bagpipe band which also starred in the video filmed on the beach.
It spent nine weeks at number one and is one of the UK’s best selling songs of all time.