Nice people thread

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

Please tell me not to phone up the estate agent to get a viewing on a house I don't want. I don't want to buy a house ... but am obsessed with looking ... and in searching for one today I saw a nice looking one that ticked all the boxes... and then it also has a heated swimming pool ... and I am ridiculously, ridiculously drawn to this.

I've always fancied lying on a lilo, in my pool, in the hot summer sun ... and it will be summer soon won't it.

Please help me..... resiiiiist. Nobody needs a pool, I'd hate it.

My dream would be a 25m pool ...all for me..that had sliding doors or similar so could be lido in the summer and closed in and warm in the winter. I wouldn't mind if it was 6' wide either.
I know pools aren't sensible but I would love one too. I know they are pricey to maintain though.

fc123

Davesnave wrote: »

OK that's easy; just think of the maintenance costs on the pump, heater and filter system + the chemicals + the time for hoovering all the debris out that falls in....Oh, and they're hardly environmentally friendly.

We looked at a couple of places with pools, but in both cases, in our mind's eye, we had them converted into wildlife ponds.

I read (in a Sunday probably) about swimming ponds that used reeds and things to act as a filter. They were a cross bewteen a proper pool and a wildlife pond. I guess a google will bring the company up.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Please tell me not to phone up the estate agent to get a viewing on a house I don't want. I don't want to buy a house ... but am obsessed with looking ... and in searching for one today I saw a nice looking one that ticked all the boxes... and then it also has a heated swimming pool ... and I am ridiculously, ridiculously drawn to this.

I've always fancied lying on a lilo, in my pool, in the hot summer sun ... and it will be summer soon won't it.

Please help me..... resiiiiist. Nobody needs a pool, I'd hate it.

Pastures, I think you sound like the sort of person who would hate maintaining a pool, both in time and cost.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

I read (in a Sunday probably) about swimming ponds that used reeds and things to act as a filter. They were a cross bewteen a proper pool and a wildlife pond. I guess a google will bring the company up.

there are a couple of companies...not that I have them in my house file or anything :whistle:. By far the nicest option if you don't mind the cold.

In the south of france I mainly swam in a big communal pond/lake...artificial It had fish and frogs in it. There was another one for dogs. I wrent in that one once, because it looked nier, but a big fish bit me and I ddn't like that.:o

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

... but a big fish bit me and I ddn't like that.:o

Load of carp! :rotfl:

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Load of carp! :rotfl:

lol:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. I never saw what they/it were, but I crawled onto an island in the middle and wouldn't swim back for a while....:o. Never went in the dog one again, and not surprised some of he dogs were not so keen...

swimming with cute baby frogs though, thats cool.

Mary_Hartnell

As a "kid" of about 11; the council shut my local privately owned pool - I think the owners had failed to pay the rates bill or something. It is now been re developed into "luxury" homes.

As an immediate alternative they had a "lake/pond" that sounds a bit like the French example above.
Set between pine woods.
At sometime an earth dam had been built across a valley to retain water and active swimmers were allowed to dive in from the dam; there was even a diving board to get you clear of the sloping side of the dam and some primitive enclosures to preserve modesty when changing cossies.

(Don't panic Carol - In those days I had absolutely no idea of what might have happened in such facilities - I don't think the council did either; but we used to be given warning from our parents/teachers about what these days would be called "Stranger-danger". A fellow pupil explained what that meant when I was about 12:- OMG really ?!?).

To get back on topic: After a few dips, I developed the mother and father of an ear ache - there was a panic about my hearing and I received penicillin injections from a syringe that looked like one of those WW1 jobs - looked to me about the size of a free-school-milk-bottle.

So don't put your head under water if you go swimming with dogs.

Mary.

Did you hear the programme about the hospital for tropical diseases? It seems there is a sort of doggy tape worm spreading into Europe from China. When it gets into dog owners it forms a cyst (that you don't know you have got) in your liver. My the time you eventually get scanned & diagnosed; it is too late.
If you are worried, write to your MP and oppose the removal of pet passports & worming regulations for UK dogs.

lostinrates

Mary_Hartnell wrote: »

To get back on topic: After a few dips, I developed the mother and father of an ear ache - there was a panic about my hearing and I received penicillin injections from a syringe that looked like one of those WW1 jobs - looked to me about the size of a free-school-milk-bottle.

So don't put your head under water if you go swimming with dogs.

Mary.

Did you hear the programme about the hospital for tropical diseases? It seems there is a sort of doggy tape worm spreading into Europe from China. When it gets into dog owners it forms a cyst (that you don't know you have got) in your liver. My the time you eventually get scanned & diagnosed; it is too late.
If you are worried, write to your MP and oppose the removal of pet passports & worming regulations for UK dogs.

lol yes. I heard that. I had to be wormed lots as a kid because of where we lived.

Jonbvn

lostinrates wrote: »

I heard that. I had to be wormed lots as a kid because of where we lived.

I certainly hope you didn't live in a kennel and have the ability to lick your own "bits".:D

Really2

lostinrates wrote: »

but a big fish bit me and I ddn't like that.:o

Sounds like a catfish (wels) they get teritorial when looking after there young and I think there are documented cases of them biting swimmers in to keep them away.

They did a test and they think if one could latch on and hold (big if the hold if you were kicking) 20lb of force would drag under the average swimmer.

Not many people know that (best Michael Caine accent).