Our annual ‘bring and share’ winter lunch party will be on Saturday 10th January at 12.15 until 3pm. We have booked the Parish Centre at Little St Mary’s again this year. Details to follow.
Dunwich Day Out: Sunday 12th October 2014
As the season draws to a close thoughts turn to our annual outing to Dunwich.
- Meet in or near the beach café at about 11am (Post code: IP17 3EN)
- Coffee at café
- Swim in sea together
- Fish and chips at café
- Beach walk to National Trust (Dunwich Heath) tearoom
- Return walk (via beach or cliff)
- Depart about 4pm
Late Season Opening Update 2
Following the cancellation of the triathlon the pool will now close on Friday 19th September with reduced opening hours from Monday 15th. Please check the Better website for details:
The usual informal end of season bring and share picnic will be from 2pm on Sunday 14th Sept (last Sunday of the season) at the pool.
Late Season Opening – Update
We have just heard that the triathlon event using the pool, scheduled for 28th Sept, has been cancelled. This was a factor in keeping the pool open, albeit on reduced hours, until the 28th. Nothing on the Better (GLL) website yet but hearing from Friends may make the difference between a 14th or 28th closing date. They have a contact form at:
or telephone:
01223 302 579
please make your views known.
Late Season Opening
Staff at the pool tell us that ‘holiday’ opening times run until Sunday 7th. From Monday 8th ‘term’ opening times apply for one week until Sunday 14th. Thereafter, up to and including Sunday 28th a schedule of reduced opening times will apply. Details are to be decided this week. On Sunday 28th a junior triathlon swim will take place at the pool but staff tell us that one lane will be available for public use. Just in case any of this changes, please check direct with the pool.
Dunwich Day Out
Save the date – Sunday 12th October. Details to follow.
The pool cafe opens.
Today the pool cafe, all be it with limited options due to electricity supply problems.
Two budding entrepreneurs, Rickie & Will have taken it on for the season. They certainly seem very enthusiastic and on the ball.
I gave them the results from our little mail shot which has garnered 18 responses in 24 hours! Cheese, Coffee, banana’s, tea, Tomato, Water, Mango, Egg, Apple & Tuna appear in the top 10 of requested items. All the results can be found by clicking this link. Jesus Green Lido Cafe – Coming Soon(2014-06-12 17-46-45)
We wish them well in their endeavour.
Jesus Green Pool cafe
BETTER have this week (9th June) released a paper questionnaire, available from the basket room, asking swimmers for their preferences at the proposed new cafe. We urge you to fill it in, alternatively you can fill it in here, all results will go to BETTER.
Pre-Opening 2014 season party
At the public meeting we had a few weeks ago with BETTER they invited all Friends to attend a pre-opening party.
So tonight ,we shared Cava & Canapes with the BETTER managers & staff at the poolside. It was a gorgeous balmy evening and the Pool was an inviting 14.9 degrees so most of us managed a few lengths. The party was well attended with about 25 friends enjoying the evening.
Apparently they have been checking out a suitable large clock to place on the pump house as per our request at the meeting, Hopefully it won’t cost £1million like the Corpus clock 🙂
Many thanks from all The Friends to the BETTER team for hosting & organising this little party it certainly portends well for the future.