Quintin Jardine's blog

When you have a pool in your garden, even one as modest as ours, it can have benefits beyond healthy exercise. For  example, I cannot tell you how many plot twists and possibilities have come to me as I’ve ploughed up and down, doing my lengths.

It can also be educational. Only last night, when I looked in the skimmer I was reminded (I say this because it’s happened before) of a sad but fundamental truth:

Mice can’t swim.