It’s 7 a.m and the temperature’s building. All our winter weather wishes have been granted and you could cook an egg on my head. You could also make pea soup with the swimming pool as, chameleon like, it’s taken on the hue of all the greenery that surrounds it.The spirit of the pool is a total bastard: a chlorinated Caligula who demands daily rituals and offerings of exotic potions with promises of azure clarity in return but, on a whim, decides opaque green is more suitable for high summer. I am now rolling my sleeves up, having the right to bare arms, and I’m going to sort out this recalcitrant pool if I have to suck out every drop with a straw and paint them individually with clear blue beautiful stuff. Leaves are green and pools are blue. Ready or not, you fucker, here I come.
Roger Stowell Photography
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Stand your ground ! As yo know, in civilised societies, even the suspicion of contamination of your pool is a legal argument to take lethal action ! Bravo !
I shall follow the constitution to the letter and kill anything that comes near my pool, save blueness and beauty:)
So that’s what Mr. Hockney does in the swimming pool 😉
I can’t stop him.
Is he painting ripples on the floor too?
He’s extremely useful like that:)
Thanks for my first laugh-out-loud moment of the day!
It coincided with my first scream out loud moment:)
With bare arms he battles the pool demons and he who wins gets to swim!
I think we’ve won. There is a definite look of blue about the pool at this moment. The amount of chemicals in there make me wonder whether swimming would be wise:)
yeah, it’s sometimes hard to find that balance between wanting to swim, keeping the water clear, and wondering about how healthy it all is. Enjoy the moment!
I’m about to …at last. Thanks:)
Good luck! And enjoy the lovely weather. We’ve finally are having some bearable weather where we can have the windows open. 🙂
Good to hear. It’s been a while coming.
Good luck, Roger. A refreshing dip afterwards will make it all worth it.
It’s blue again, Andra…hoorah:)
This is hilarious! I think I am becoming one of your biggest fans….
Many thanks for the encouragement. Excellent hearing from you:)
Slap it around a bit. That will teach it to think twice about being greenery. It’s rather unfortunate, but it seem this pool needs a good jogging before it shows any respect.
I’ve medicined it severely and it’s now blue….or blueish:)
Ah, Roger versus the pool. It must be summer. 🙂
Shame you can’t just shoot that algae into submission.
Given half a chance, I would:)
And so we continue at this petty pace:)
I am sure you created some delightful treat to celebrate the “Blue”!
Too right:)
Roger: you can’t have it both ways . . . rain, wind, heat and cold all take their turn: do bare up 🙂 !
I’ve bared my soul to that pool, and what do I get in return….green:)
So . . . enjoy the green . . . whilst it lasts . . . luvverly colour 🙂 !
Just luvverly:)
Keep on it, Sisyphus!
Compared to Sisyphus, I’m a sissy. Green pool or boulder up a hill…not a difficult choice:)
The challenges of owning a pool…you have brought back memories of life in Florida. At least the sun is out. 🙂
That’s true, and now the pool is blue…until the next time. We have a really hopeless installation and it just would cost too much to change it…or to fill it with earth:)
Ha! I remember this pool from last year, Roger! All the best!
Indeed, Algy has come for a summer visit:)
Well, at least we saw a pretty shot of the flowers 😉 (P.S. A hard day’s work in the sun is deserving of a nice long drink watching the sun go down. That’s a plus.)
..and something of which I regularly take advantage:)
I thought so 🙂
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That pool! I’m sure you’ve whipped it into shape by now. I loved having a pool, but hated cleaning it.
You and me too:)
Good luck! Personally I would rather bask in the sunshine enjoying the garden 🙂
Haven’t you got the ocean on your front doorstep, TandY?
You are a riot, Roger. Algae is a pesky one! Good luck on your pool endeavors!
I think we’ve beaten it again:)
Funny. And pretty.
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