Inspired by the recent threatened paddling pool closures, local resident Elaine Roberts, of Bryn Road has written the following poem :-


Making a Splash !

Summer is here and life is a breeze,
A time for us kids to do as we please,
The holidays are coming and what with six weeks off school,
We’ll enjoy having fun in the paddling pool.


It’s somewhere we can go, it’s just down the street,
We’ll play there for hours, for us it’s a treat,
Keeping ourselves cool in the heat of the day,
When the sun is so hot, too hot to play.


Water to a child is quite an attraction,
Something must be done, it’s time to take action,
But there’s only one rule in the heat of the day,
They can’t take our pool, it’s the heart of our play.


It’s there that we gather and have the most fun,
It don’t cost a penny, to get plenty of sun,
We all play together, we’re a really great bunch,
And when we get hungry, we head home for lunch.


It brings back such memories now the years have passed by,
How on hot summer days we there used to lie,
It seemed much too far to walk to the beach,
When I was a child it seemed way out of reach.


But we’d play in the pool, we’d be cleaner than clean,
Cooling ourselves down with a lovely ice-cream,
We’d stay there for hours, wouldn’t want to go home,
We’d all tell our mothers to leave us alone.


Day after day, we’d do the same thing,
We never got bored as we swam and jumped in,
Sometimes our families would join in the fun,
After all their chores and housework were done.


So please don’t take away the freedom we had,
Of the little things in life that made us so glad,
For you once were kids, with a childhood like us,
We don’t want any trouble, we don’t want a fuss.


We’re the kids of Seaside with a park and a pool,
Which is run by the Council and with that we’re quite cool,
We don’t want any stories about funding or cash,
We just thought it was time, we were ‘making a splash’.

Written by Elaine Roberts, Bryn Road, Seaside, Llanelli on Monday 1st June 2009.