It must be terribly difficult being the only one in the village with a pool
telegraph.co.ukthat costs roughly £9 million a year to run (and rising) and which you use for three days in July.I ask because a friend lives in a village where someone has a very smart pool and apparently operates an open-door policy on weeks such as this.
Neighbours can drop in to the garden on hot days and make use of the pool as if it were a lido. Children welcome. The more the merrier, is his attitude.Another friend is horrified by this.
Her parents have a swimming pool at their house in the Cotswolds and invite friends over on scorching days, but only for a quick dip. “Mum doesn’t like it when people hang around afterwards on the sunbeds, talking to them and demanding drinks.” Her father, meanwhile, pulls the cover back on almost as soon as their friends have emerged from the water to signal they can’t go back in again.
One dip only, like a Jacob sheep.How tricky it must be if you are the only one in the village with a pool. On Mumsnet, there’s a very long post, running to nine pages of comments, discussing a drama involving a swimming pool and an aggressive note left under the owner’s windscreen wiper.
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