Our big paddling pool only comes out a handful of times each summer, but whenever it does, the ending is always the same. Once the girls have finished splashing around, we usually cover it for a while, but because we don't treat it with chemicals, we then need to empty it after a couple of days, which usually ends up as one giant puddle on our grass.
I'd never actually questioned it before, but after another spell of hot, dry weather and the constant threat of hosepipe bans, it made me think of how much perfectly usable water I was wasting, as well as the fact that I was wrecking my lawn in the process, which is why I was struggling to revive it all the time.
