You'd think that a pool so close to the sea would be a salt-water one ... would make sense wouldn't it? (and more buoyancy of course)
It used to have a sandy "beach" at one end, but I guess it played havoc with the filtration system. It had an "infinity" edge which fell as a waterfall which passers by outside could walk behind. The circular dish in the fountain in the middle is held up by dragons which had water coming from their mouths and flames coming from their nostrils. The whole area was a car park before the hotel was built so all those palm trees ( 100s of them ), were shipped in and planted at about 30ft tall. I'd say the landscaping alone would have run to £millions.
It's such a vivid demonstration of why humanity is destined to fail when people refuse restrict their water consumption for a few weeks. We're not being asked not to use water at all, we're not being restricted in what we can do with the water, all that's happened is people have been told to show some restraint but you'd swear by some peoples' reactions that we're one step away from revolution.
If we have a dry winter and a similar summer next year then we'd back to standpipes in the street again all because people can't stop filling their paddling pools and hot tubs or don't want to wash their car with a bucket of water. We're such a self-indulgent society. Why is it so hard for people not to consume natural resources at an unsustainable rate even for a short amount of time?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
"WRE is looking at all kinds of innovative solutions to the problem,
including ideas for a new winter storage reservoir in South
Lincolnshire, which would hold excess water from winter rainfall and
floods."
It's such a vivid demonstration of why humanity is destined to fail when people refuse restrict their water consumption for a few weeks. We're not being asked not to use water at all, we're not being restricted in what we can do with the water, all that's happened is people have been told to show some restraint but you'd swear by some peoples' reactions that we're one step away from revolution.
If we have a dry winter and a similar summer next year then we'd back to standpipes in the street again all because people can't stop filling their paddling pools and hot tubs or don't want to wash their car with a bucket of water. We're such a self-indulgent society. Why is it so hard for people not to consume natural resources at an unsustainable rate even for a short amount of time?
I think it's a result of privatisation ... it really rankles for some people to make a profit out of what should be a community resource and managed as such
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
... there is also a strand of people who deeply resent the feeling of being told what to do. By anyone. Several in my family are ferocious anti-environmentalists. They hold it as their inalienable right to fly as often and as far as they wish, to drive the biggest, thirstiest car, cruise on the biggest ship, install the newest kitchen every few years. It's a point of principle for them - a symbol of personal freedom, resistance and success. Any env concern or social support for other people is liberal/pinko hysteria, a conspiracy of snow flakes. They are Ukip people. Thatcher supporters. Murdoch cheerleaders. Loudly 'anti-bureaucracy' (local council, EU, tax). Bullish, 'self-made' Cavaliers.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It had an "infinity" edge which fell as a waterfall which passers by outside could walk behind.
The circular dish in the fountain in the middle is held up by dragons which had water coming from their mouths and flames coming from their nostrils.
The whole area was a car park before the hotel was built so all those palm trees ( 100s of them ), were shipped in and planted at about 30ft tall.
I'd say the landscaping alone would have run to £millions.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.