Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[Jono]

The neighbours have a massive swimming/paddling pool thing in their garden. No idea they sold them that big here. Do you have a pool? Or is anyone envious of a friend or neighbour with a pool at the moment?

[me_54m]

No there are no pools round here although there is a pond with a fountain next door but one.

[Timsk]

I'm thinking a bowl of cold water for my feet might do for now... It is hot, though an outdoor pool (rightly) costs a fortune to fill. It's amusing seeing how many there are around here on the zoomed satellite Google Maps view though. Bastards.

[Emma]

My uncle's got his own pool - lucky! The neighbours on one side of my garden have a huge paddling pool but I'm not envious in the slightest - heard the daughter screaming that her younger brother was peeing in it earlier. Nice.

[E*F*4L]

next door had one of them blow-up hot tub things last year

i have a pond with some fish in though

[me_54m]

I'm going to look on goggle earth now - didn't people do that last year and then have a party in someone elses pool.

EDIT - i think Ive found 1 quarter of a mile away.

Is that one?

[Lucinda]

My neighbours had a paddling pool but they left it out there uncovered for a few months and it got very very manky. Now their lawn is basically dead because of it. They've got a trampoline and there appears to be a small paddling pool on it at the moment. I'm not envious, although I never had a trampoline as a kid. Also, when I was a kid, trampolines didn't have protective guards all around them. If you fell off, you fell off...

When we were watching Blur at Glastonbury, some people in the crowd had a huge inflated paddling pool, which was being thrown around the crowd over people's heads. At least it didn't have any water in it.

I've got a little pond with 2 ickle goldfish in which is way better than a paddling pool

[KingTutsWWH]

I'm thinking a bowl of cold water for my feet might do for now... It is hot, though an outdoor pool (rightly) costs a fortune to fill. It's amusing seeing how many there are around here on the zoomed satellite Google Maps view though. Bastards.

Haha! We ought to be more friendly with our neighbours, perhaps?

Must admit I do miss the sea when the weather's like this.

[midnight]

I have a pool and a jacuzzi at the villa at the moment but don't have one when Im at home. i had a paddling pool as a kid until my labrador jumped in and pierced it with his claws when he slipped.

[Danishgirl]

Oh yes, I do. Not a "real" pool, we only have it out in the summer. And it's not that big - but that's alright, because I'm not a good swimmer yet anyway. It's so nice, though, I walked home from the station today, 2km with no shadow at all, so was litterally soaking wet with sweat. I guess the pool saved me. 30 minutes there, and I feel fresh again. I truly love it.

[Lucinda]

Oh actually... I'll have a pool for a week from Saturday, and the sea. Just got to not get sunburn, that'll be quite a challenge.