Last week the kids braved the pool for the first time this year.  We had been checking the pool temperature daily and it duly arrived at a whopping 20 deg C.  In they went but, not for me as I thought it was freezing.  In fact they used the pool three days running before it got all cold and damp again.

It was easy to get the pool going again after the winter break, as I had not winterised it.  I left the pump on the timer to rum 30 minutes a day to keep things moving. As it is salt water it is less prone to freeze and no extra chemicals were used (anti freeze & anti algae stuff).  All said it took an hour to clean the summer cover of leaves twigs etc and another hour to vacuum the pool and voila it was ready.