Pop a pod in your garden

Introducing the new must-have haven for stressed families

We eat all our meals in ours

The great escape: Barbara and Max’s pod can seat six for dinner and transform into a bed for afternoon naps…

We’ve only had our pod just over a week and we love it. We’ve had breakfast, lunch and dinner in there every day since it was installed. I love the sun lounger we have in our garden, but we can’t use it on cooler days or when it’s breezy because it’s too exposed.

We thought about getting a hot tub, but the maintenance is too much for people of our age, so the pod seemed the perfect place to relax

We call it our champagne globe

Bubble of fun: Lorna and Simon have room to enjoy alfresco meals, and a glass of prosecco, with the youngsters in their rotating pod…

We spend a lot of time in the garden and when we saw one of these globes at a garden show, we had to have one. We had ours fitted three years ago and it’s been the centre of attention ever since.

We call it the Champagne Globe but actually we’re more likely to be found drinking prosecco. The children absolutely love it and go and sit out there with their friends if they want a bit of space

The Daily Mail’s Jill Foster and Sarah Chambers reports Saturday, July 18, 2015