Atemas
UK Tour Guide
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- North Cambridgeshire
Lovely news @kateincornwall - when is the baby due?
What made you smile today?
- Thread starter snowbunny
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Very exciting, Kate! When is it due?
- Location
- Cornwall , UK
About mid March xx
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
Full family swim this evening 
It's actually quite funny as it seems that Ella can't see the depth of the pool. She can't seem to see that there are steps and a bench seat along the whole of one side of the pool so I've been having to teach her where to get in and out.
It's actually quite funny as it seems that Ella can't see the depth of the pool. She can't seem to see that there are steps and a bench seat along the whole of one side of the pool so I've been having to teach her where to get in and out.
Atemas
UK Tour Guide
- Location
- North Cambridgeshire
Wonderful 
- Location
- Cornwall , UK
I love these photos of your pool and its occupants xx
Jacqui-S
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- Fife, Scotland
Love it!
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- Malvern Worcestershire
What wonderful fun to swim with Ella. It must be heaven to all be together in the water.
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
Yes, you still have to treat the water in a private pool. You can use traditional chlorine (like a public pool) but most use a salt or mineral water cholrinator that requires much lower levels of chlorine. Ours is actually a newer system again that means the water has very minimal chemicals so it just feels like normal tap water to swim in. There's also an acid doser that maintains the PH for us. We test the water weekly at home to check PH, copper, total dissolved solids and chlorine and you can take a sample to the pool shop where they test everything for you (more accurate numbers and other levels too like phosphates etc.).
We're still in the learning phase with our pool but so far so good
- Location
- Malvern Worcestershire
Do you recycle the water and does the sand get into the pool? Much upkeep?
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
The water just goes round and round. So out of the skimmer box, through the pipes, pump, filter chlorinator etc. and then back into the pool. We'll likely have to top it up a bit over summer due to the evaporation but we also have a cover that helps to minimise evaporation. The sand isn't too bad but we have a robot cleaner that goes in a couple of times a week to pick up any bits.
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- Sydney, Australia
What an awesome pool Emily, love it! I will never understand why Maxx utterly refuses to get in ours. We put him in as a puppy but he would always just swim to the steps and get out. Now he just backs away if we try to encourage him, I guess he is a bit scared. He loves the ocean and will go in the river on a hot day but only up to his armpits. Just not a water boy I guess 
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
There must be something funny about the pool as Ella is very cautious too. And she's a "throws herself blindly into any body of water" kind of labWhat an awesome pool Emily, love it! I will never understand why Maxx utterly refuses to get in ours. We put him in as a puppy but he would always just swim to the steps and get out. Now he just backs away if we try to encourage him, I guess he is a bit scared. He loves the ocean and will go in the river on a hot day but only up to his armpits. Just not a water boy I guess
I think they perceive it as a "deep hole full of water." Chewie really wants to get into pools but he always chickens out.There must be something funny about the pool as Ella is very cautious too. And she's a "throws herself blindly into any body of water" kind of lab
Yesterday at the drum lesson his teacher started using drum notation for the first time. She wrote out a couple of bars of music and asked him what he thought of it. He just played it with no explanation. She was pretty impressed. Apparently she's going to tell him kindy teacher about it today.
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- Malvern Worcestershire
Sounds very efficient and easy maintenance
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- Melbourne, Australia
Haha I just read that as Chewie was at the drum lesson
That's wonderful, he's a very special boy
Cath
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Me tooHaha I just read that as Chewie was at the drum lesson
