My lovely 8 foot pool ended up on the patio afterall!!!

I was mulling it over for a day or so and got out the tape mesure to see if the pool would acctualy fit on the patio...and low and behold my patio measures exactly 9 foot from my patio doors to the start of my garden!! So one morning before it got too hot I lifted my empty pool (even empty it weighs a ton) and got it on the patio where I had placed two old picnic blankets for it too sit on. Its actually under the kitchen window so I could even top it up with warm water if it gets too cold, via my short hose which I use for my fishtank. The pool takes about 3 hours to fill though (about 650 gallons) and its still a bit wonky because I hadent straightened it out properly but now at least I have a swimming pool that is absolutly gorgeous and a wonderfull way of cooling down when its megga hot. At night I cover it with a large tarp and double cover the filtre unit as its electricle, and I have no desire to get electricuted by my own pool filtre...Anyway Derek is so impressed with it, he is coming home from work, usually about 4pm, stripping down to his shorts and getting straight in the pool. Yesterday evening he was in there for about an hour and I had to call him 3 times to say his dinner was ready!!! Even more surprizing was he mentioned having a "proper" dug in pool in the garden!! I nearly fell off my chair when he said this last night!!! Now although my garden is big enough for a good sized swimming pool, it would cost about £15,000 to build, and proper swimming pools need a lot of looking after, and maintainence which = hard work!!! So Last night we chatted about it over an icey cold bottle of wine and came to the conclusion a good sized "hot tub" would be a more practicle idea and we could use it all year round!! So on Sunday we are off to the Waeyvale garden centre where they sell, and install them, to price them up and genrally see whats on offer. ok we wont be able to swim in a hot tub but we can enjoy it in the evening with a cold or indeed a hot drink!!! Anyway, I will let you know what happens.
Now for my busness propersition, which came out of the blue, from a lovely chap called Brian who has a small shop which sells novalties, as well as Masonic supplies...a while back on ebay I sold him one of my Masonic tea light holders, stained glass variaty. He was so impressed he emailed me explaining his shop and he has comissioned a set of these holders I make for sale in his shop, we just need to agree a price. I had to explain the cost of the paints as well as the fact each holder takes about 4 days just to make one, and also I have to make one for my own lodge for my Fellow Craft. So we have agreed Christmas time as he thinks they will sell better then. Well at least this gives me 5 months!!!...which reminds me. I have to email him as I have not been on the internet during the heatwave, because my laptop gets hot, making me even hotter, and I have been messing with my pool...weel slobbing about in it realy!! LOL!!

Stay cool people!! x