Sunday 28 February 2010

All going swimmingly

I've just enjoyed my daily hour-long dip in the Beaker Swimming Pool - the beautiful round indoor swimming pool we transformed the last-but-three Moot House into when it flooded. Between 2 and 3 is "Archdruids only" swimming, and it's nice to have the pool to myself.
But then it's not used much at other times.  I can't helping thinking we're suffering here from a clash between Child Protection and Health and Safety.
Going on the great example of the Bridges shopping centre, we banned anyone over the age of 16 from going in the pool in case they were any kind of danger to children.  Obviously, many of them wouldn't have been.  But you can't be too careful.
Unfortunately, under our strict Health and Safety policy, we don't allow children under 18 in the pool unless they are accompanied by a responsible adult.
Since implementing these rules, utilisation of the pool has gone down to 0% except during the Archdruids Only session.  This is bad news.  But I can confirm that the incidence of pool-related verruca has dropped sharply.  There's practically no danger of drowning (although I note that Drayton can be seen hovering near the edge during my swimming sessions occasionally, Hnaef normally drags him away).  And our regular testing shows that we have the cleanest pool in the East of England.  So our overall "swimming pool success rating" is 5 stars.  Well done to everyone!

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