Swimming Pools across the world haver been suffering with the effects of the pandemic, the cost of living and energy prices for some years now and the effects are beginning to show. Here in Lincoln, the infrastructure of Yarborough Swimming Pool is particularly showing the strains what with broken showers, malfunctioning steam rooms and changing room partitions in need of a good seeing to. The staff are doing their best to placate an increasingly irate public; their owners, Active Nation, are clearly doing their best to rectify the situation by putting up notices informing the customers of the errant equipment, so we’re throwing our life belt into the pool by offering to donate all our December profits from the sale of our new publication, Confessions of the Ageing Swimmers, into a fighting fund which will go towards preventing the pool from going down the pan in the New Year.
No, it’s not the same as helping a medical charity but anything you can do to help community well being and stop this much needed resource from going down the Swanee would be much appreciated by all the pool’s users. Just click below to find out how you can help!
Confessions of the Ageing Swimmers
What would you do if you heard someone confess to the most heinous moral crime but there was nothing you could do about it?
A novella about work, care, and belief set in a Nottingham swimming pool.
Eighteen-year-old Leo, a trainee lifeguard on a six-month contract, struggles with exhaustion, responsibility, and the promise that work will give his life meaning. As routines harden into rituals and care begins to blur into belief, Confessions of the Ageing Swimmers asks why swimming pools have replaced churches and what that means for a generation already worn thin.