because Big didn’t get to today. 🙁 Completely not her fault this time though, not really anyone’s. Took some effort to get organised and get there, but we made it, just in time for me to witness a young boy vomit copiously into the pool by the shallow end steps. Yeuch. So I spoke to the instructor, and she spoke to the chappy who is in charge, and his opinion was that the chlorine in the water would kill any nasties, and that within an hour you wouldn’t be able to see anything left as it would all dissolve and go out of the filters.
Hm, maybe, but that means that during this hour, my daughter gets to swim in vomit. I think not. So we left, and because we left, two other parents brought their children out immediately, and two more were in the changing room by the time we’d changed. Shame, but I just couldn’t entertain it – was really surprised that they didn’t evacuate the pool until it was clean.
So we had an unexpected hour free early on a Saturday morning – we went shopping and got Big some much needed new socks. Where *do* socks go?
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12 responses to “Glad we swam yesterday”
Eugh…..
eeww! At least it wasn’t Big’s fault. I would have done exactly the same, yuk! We had a really good lesson today, thankfully.
Glad to hear it Sarah!
Yuck. I thought they did evacuate pools for 90 mins or some such when something like that happened. Twice I’ve been told to leave a pool for disinfection after the baby crapped in it. I think a letter of enquiry asking about their policy in such cases might be in order. Go on Jax, you now you want too;-)
Hm, maybe…actually, I think you’re right. I was deeply uncomfortable that there were other children left swimming in it – I’ve been at center parcs when they’ve closed pools for this sort of thing.
Mmm – glad I read that just in time for lunch. How horrible?
And re socks – I find it’s not just any old socks that go missing, it’s precisely one sock from each pair. The other day B had 3 clean socks in his drawer and *none* of them matched. Looked in the ‘just washed’ pile and found two more and still couldn’t make a pair.
I have a sock policy now. All socks have to go into the drawer in pairs and anything without a pair goes in a little pot in my room. After its been in there a few weeks it gets chucked.
Obviously that policy was SLIGHTLY scuppered by both Alison and my mum turning up with a clutch of odd socks we had left behind this week!
Hmm yeah I’m quite organised about socks – they dry on the line in their pairs and only come off the line once folded into pairs – this means sometimes they end up on the line waiting for their mate – or end up in the bin! Guess the way round it is only buying socks in one colour for each member of the family, but Ady always gets at least two pairs of ‘novelty’ socks at Christmas which would scupper this anyway.
Oh and Ewwwwwww to the upchuck in the pool!
For interest, I asked at our local pool this afternoon. They said (look away if you are squeamish) that they remove as much of the solid material 😉 as they can with the net, ask people to leave the pool, put more chemicals in, and then once they’ve settled, open the pool again. Took about an hour to 90 mins. However, he did say that a) they now insisted on swim nappies for babies, to try to reduce the risk of it happening it the first place and b) unless the contamination was really heavy, so long as it was removed immediately, the chemical level was high enough to deal with most germs, simply becuase people did pee in the water the whole time anyway, so they needed to keep it high. So the key seemed to be the instant removal of the offending “matter”. But he said that every pool had to have a policy, which needed to be approved by Health + Safety.
I think I’ve just remembered why I don’t like swimming pools! yuk. You’re braver than me. My excuse for not going is having 3 clingy non-swimmers- not allowed at our local pool. What to do?
Well, Jax, there’s a pair of Small’s socks here if that helps!
Hi Rosie – have just had a read of your blog 🙂 Nice to meet you 🙂 When I lived somewhere with a draconian adult-child ratio rule, I just talked to them and they let me take both kids in (had a 2 year old and a 6 month old). Might help – unless you are happy to use it as an excuse, lol! Otherwise move? 😉
where do socks go? – to Alison’s house 😉