Head over heart

I mentioned a week or so ago that I planned to install a small (8.2 x 4.7 metres) ‘hors sol’ swimming pool in my garden below my house once the build was finished. I posted a picture of the model I had in mind and below is how things look now, with the garden in its present state, and how they would have looked with the house finished before the bare earth was made into a grassy bank.

The pool in question was on offer until 2nd April with its price slashed by 1100€, about 20% off its usual price, so was a bit of a bargain. I hesitated but thought, ‘What the heck!’ and placed an order last Sunday before the deadline expired. Then I went off to bed.

I awoke on Monday having slept on it with the thought in my mind that I must be crazy and alarm bells ringing. The pool kit weighs not much short of 2 tonnes and would have been delivered in 10-15 days time and then what would I have done with it?

It would have been dropped onto my land and with all of the essential work ahead of me, things like relocating my tool store and building a garage on top of all the work I have to do indoors, decorating, tiling, furnishing, laying floors, putting in a kitchen and much more, there it would have stayed for many weeks, if not months. I doubt that I’d even have been able to install the pool before the end of the season, making buying it pretty pointless.

So reluctantly I made my head overrule my heart and bowed to the sensible decision to call the pool company and cancel my order. They were very understanding and did so after a young lady called me to confirm that that was what I wanted to do. When I checked their web site a short time afterwards the price of the pool had already returned to normal so there was no going back.

Not this year anyway. I have no idea how the price of the pool will change by this time next year but by then I should have all of my main jobs behind me and be in a much better position to take on the task of installing it. So in my heart I haven’t given up on the idea of having it – far from it – but for now I’ve had to listen to what my head tells me 🙁