Our efforts have, indeed, made a difference on our water bills 
Who wants a hot shower at the moment? 
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That looks lovely and so inviting.
Not hot, hot… just not cold! 
Incidentally, the cold water tap was actually running hot onFriday last week. Just shows how hot the underneath of the roads must be, since all the waterpipes are buried about 1+ metre down. 
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You would be surprised at how I found a hot shower was actually refreshing to me during the 40°C temps recently. Its a bit dangerous to have a freezing cold shower when you are sweating hot like people who jump into cold rivers and have a heart attack.
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We had the same here too, my neighbour remarked on how his water was warm to as was mine. Back to cold now
It is and it is inviting me right now. I have done my jobs for the day, barrowing 2 breeze blocks, one at a time uphill, got to listen to the heart , and placing them roughly in position for my new shed, due to arrive 1st of August which will become a bird hide after a few improvements.
Then carefully wielding my 8 foot crowbar to loosen two more from their bedding place which will be the job for tomorrow.
But, as soon as I have finished here and this glass of water I will be up there tout suite, to lower myself gently into the 21c water, thinking again of the heart. 
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Scuse my ignorance , but doesn’t chlorine dissipate from water after a while if left in the open air?
I can fill a bucket before it gets warm. I have been putting this water outside , it heats up in a few hours and is enough for all the washing up and a hot" shower" .
I now save all used shower water, washing machine water etc and use it on the flowers and bushes as we’re not allowed to water these from the taps at the moment. The plants are thriving, but clearly might not for too much longer.
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We were thinking a few years back of building a natural pool and took some inspiration from this:
I like the idea of an infinity pool, neighbours up on the hill have got one, but not suitable here. I’d have to get rid of some trees and that is a definite nono.
Hopefully not a tap issue
Yes it does, thats why pools have some form of stabiliser added to protect from degradation by the sun.
When I was young and foolhardier I rode a horrible rickety bike rather a long way in southern Egypt in August and it was fabulous having a lovely hot shower everywhere every evening no matter how primitive the place, because people’s metal water tanks were on the roof and the water was always super hot.
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I would say empty the pool ( ask Donald how to do this!) and wait until it rains, but having lived in Fréjus, there is little chance of that! Just saying. 
In Tennessee they put big containers of water and peach teabags out on front porches in the sun all day, its lovely to drink in the evening.
Just as long as you haven’t got @toryroo 's pigeons as residents. 
A Dutch friend of our had one, a few kms up the Lot from us and much higher up on the steep slopes of the valley…
A few months ago, he was in the pool when the infinity wall collapsed, creating a spectacular waterfall that carried him out of the pool and swept him over the rocks below and down into the valley for tens of metres. Suspect the huge volume of water (and considerable personal padding) saved him from serious injury
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Crikey, terrifying, do they know the cause, poor construction or geological issue?
It was on hard schist and I think he built it himself…
Not that I’d wish to leap to conclusions.
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