Roof fundraiser day planned...
A fundraising day takes place this week towards getting a roof built on the Huish Leisure Centre swimming pool. It's part of a local campaign to raise £20,000 for the £950,000 project. The government's Sport England fund has already promised £481,000.
On Friday, what's being described as a 'Community Pool Party' will be the first of a chain of fundraising events which according to the Western Gazette will involve "food....drink....and some water based activities."
Carry On Langport has managed to get hold of a list of what these 'water based activities' will be and is delighted to be able to publish this detailed run-down:
10am - grand opening
10.15am - Eastover residents have their annual bath
10.30am - fight breaks out among Eastover residents.
11.00 - Langport Freemasons demonstrate how to swim the front crawl with one side of their trunks rolled up.
11.15am - a brief display from the Environment Agency on how to spend 5 million quid at Seven Bends near Othery without actually doing anything.
11.30am - Langport Arms washes its cutlery.
Midday - synchronized swimming (running round in circles flapping their arms about) from staff at Somerton Police Station (brought in specially for the event from Wincanton)
2pm - a crash course in how to get you and your living room on BBC Points West news most nights of the week, by Muchelney residents.
3pm - grand finale: several St Mary's Park women are thrown into the water with the 'Langport Pike' as their husbands and partners place bets on who gets dragged under first.
"I feel sorry for the pike" said district councillor and organiser Clare Aparicio.
The family fun day also involves live music. Tickets, for £5, can be purchased from Huish Leisure.
Pictured: an artist's impression of Huish Pool with its new roof.
