| Following a successful breakfast event at the Ladies’ Pond in September, we are pleased to let you know that KLPA members have been invited for a return visit to Highgate Men’s Pond. The Highgate Men’s Pond Association would like us to join them for a swim and breakfast on Saturday 16 October 2021 from 8 am to 11 am. Hot drinks and croissants will be provided, along with the good company of our comrades from the Men’s Pond. The invitation has also been extended to the Mixed Pond Association and Hampstead Heath Winter Swimming Club. In order to access the Men’s Pond it will be necessary to use your season ticket wristband or pay at the entry, as you would at the Ladies’ Pond. The changing area at the Men’s Pond is no longer divided into two sections but gazebos have been provided to facilitate changing for Ladies’ Pond visitors (a large towel might also come in useful). Children over 8 who have completed their swim test (and have a wristband to prove it) will also be welcome, and will need to be supervised by their adult when at the pond. It is good to see a resumption of the social side of bathing pond swimming on Hampstead Heath, thank you to the HMPA for this invitation. |
| Petition – Sewage in Rivers Expiring 12 October 2021You may be interested in this parliamentary petition which will be expiring on Tuesday, and has nearly 71,000 signatures as this is written. It can be considered for debate in Parliament if it reaches 100,000 signatures. “Ban Water Companies discharging raw sewage into water courses. Ensure Water companies treat the sewage they are responsible for. Not discharge it into rivers and water courses. After all what goes into the ocean comes back as the fish we eat.” |