We took the Moonbase Grandson to an adventure playground this morning. You know, zip slide, wobbly logs, rope ladders, wooden forts, revolving cupolas and swinging bridges.
He's too small really and was quite happy running up and down the slopes of the forest park it was set in.
I don't recall adventure playgrounds when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure there wasn't one in Preston in the Sixties. Certainly not one near me, I would have remembered the zip slide or death slide, although I did send my Action Man down the washing line!
Later in the early eighties I noticed more of them springing up and when I went to the Continent they had paid staff to help kids and parents make the most of the big playgrounds.
Did you go to an adventure playground readers?
There was a conventional one outside our house, swings, slide, roundabout etc. Handy!
ReplyDeleteJust outside eh Kev! That was handy! Did you meet your mates there?
DeleteOddly no, usually at each other's houses but we did sometimes make our way there in the end!
DeleteWere your mates young fizzicists like you kev?
DeleteNo, when I was quite young none of my mates seemed interested in science. When I got older, most of my mates were geeks!
DeleteDo you think most scientists were geeky at some point?
DeleteIt's part of the skill set! When I was teaching, one of the (many) characteristics for being on the gifted and talented register was a strong interest in tvsf! (Honestly).
DeleteGifted and geeky ..... like Dr.Who!
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