Swimming is great fun and a great way to keep fit. But paying a visit to your local swimming baths can mean tripping over countless youngsters, too much chlorine in the water and the risk of picking up a nasty foot infection.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could have your own pool, exclusively for your own use?

I’ve always wanted a pool of my own but with a tiny back garden and an even smaller bank balance I thought that owning a pool would have to wait until I won on the lottery. But then I came across H2OFun who supplied me with one of their Wooden Exercise Pools with a counter current swim jet and a heater. Absolutely brilliant!

The swim jet creates quite a strong current enabling me to steadily swim into the current and stay quite static in the pool. At only 4m long the pool fits neatly into my small back yard and the heater means that I don’t suffer a nasty shock every time I get in. I’ve been using it for a few months now and I’ve lost nearly 14lb in weight and I’m feeling much fitter.

The only problem now is that my friends keep turning up with their swimming costumes wanting a session in the pool. I think that they should buy their own.