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Rupert and Jo Weston, Bedfordshire
Jo and Rupert Weston live on a farm in Bedfordshire, with their daughter and granchildren also living on the same site...
Tim: How did you decide to have a swimming pond?
Jo: I found out about you online, it would have been after reading a magazine... My daughter had been wanting a swimming pool, and I said there's no way I'm spoiling my garden with one of those.
Tim: Were you always thinking of converting the pond?
Jo: No, originally we were thinking of having a separate one. But then you came and we talked about converting the pond that was there already.
Tim: So three years on now, has it matched what you thought it would be?
Jo: Well it has for me, I love it. But sometimes you've got friends who say hmmph you won't get me in there. We've got a lot of friends though who go in it an awful lot, they come and bring their swim suits. And they're friends who love nature and who love the countryside and swallows darting down when you're swimming. They love it because they're nature lovers really, whereas the others, they want a horrible chlorine thing.
Those that do go in love it. They might say oh it's a bit cold but they can't wait to go in. And you don't feel cold once you're in.
I try and swim every day in the summer, and I try to swim 20 lengths. Rupert does 10 lengths. He enjoys it.
Tim: Do you use that area for things other than swimming?
Jo: Yes because on the farm it's difficult to get any privacy, so we go to sit out there after lunch.
The water draws you out there. The water is very different in the converted pond compared to the other one. This one is obviously nicer because of the plants and the water is clear and a lovely colour.
