Alternative Swimming Around Bury

The Bury St Edmunds Leisure Centre was closed for an awfully long time after the fire, so that drove us to look for other places to swim. Waterworld at Thetford is pretty good, but you have to keep hold of little ones ifyou go anywhere near the rapids, as the current can suck them out of their depth quite easily.

But for a really family friendly leisure pool in the area you can't beat The Kingfisher Leisure Centre in Sudbury, next to Waitrose and the water meadows (which are a good for a picnic on a sunny day). With there being no swimming lessons yesterday, and Big Miss going to town with Mum for some new shoes, and it being rainy, and the house had just been cleaned and I didn't want it messed up again (or I'd be in trouble), I said to the little ones, "Anyone want to go to the pool with the waves and the rocks and the slide and the froggy floats?". A unanimous "Yeeeay!" was the reply.

Wet and Wild runs from 2-4pm on Saturdays. We must have been in for nearly 1 1/2 hours because we got the waves 3 times before we came out, wrinkled as prunes. Great fun, apart from when little W was pushed off his perch on the yellow dome and had to be fished out spluttering. "Hey, that was really good underwater swimming", I said, and he stopped crying and looked quite pleased with himself.