Big kids at heart

[Ann]

I found a half used canister of bubbles after my nieces children visited today. I was transported right back to my childhood as I (age 64) stood in the garden blowing bubbles into a cloudless sunny sky and seeing all the colours!! Wonderful!! I guess I'm just a big kid at heart! The neighbours knew the children had gone home so perhaps they had a secret giggle at me! I also love swinging (the usual sort - no naughty thoughts please!) Why doesn't an enterprising person make an adult playground in a resort with heavy duty slides, swings and roundabouts - we oldies would have a field day ..... WHEEEEEEEE !!

[Mamyalynne]

Blowing bubbles is till a big favourite here with my 4 grandchildren.

http://www.yourfunnys...grounds-wouldnt-work/

[Ann]

Very funny mamyalynne - liked the cartoon!

[funnygirl]

My grandaughter has a bubble blowing machine and she loves it.

[stokemaveric]

i remember the playground in our local park like it was yesterday..the big slide,the ''witches hat'' the sand pit..and lots more i remember sliding down the slide and a piece of metal was jutting out and it gashed my leg from thigh to ankle [ouch]...there was blood everywhere it got me 2 weeks off school tho lol...i walk past the spot every week with the dog,it is still a playground but much safer now..ahhhh the memories..

[giveup]

I've just bought a bubble machine for me and I'm over 60. Its fun.Mind you the family think i'm ga-ga. So what!

[Ann]

Likewise Stokemaveric - I also remember the children's playground in our local park (still there but safer now!) I was about 10 years old and sneaked out to the playground with some friends despite being told by my Mum I couldn't go on the big slide (a little boy had been killed by falling from the top a few weeks earlier) I got to the very top of the slide and there was a nail jutting out and to my horror I got my skirt caught around it and it ripped it from waistband to hem (fortunately it didn't hurt me!) What did hurt was the "good hiding" I got when I arrived home holding the pieces of my skirt together around me!! Talk about "be sure your sins will find you out!!" I've never forgotten it!!

[Ann]

Think I'll ask Santa for a bubble machine then - oh yes and a skipping rope and a hula-hoop, a post office set, a set of sewing cards, french knitting set, a sugar mouse and one of those little monkeys on elastic who climbs a ladder and goes right over the top ............ what memories aaahh! What would you like for Christmas which takes you back to your childhood days?

[giveup]

Black patent leather shoes with a strap around the ankle. My mum took my last pair to the WVS clothing exchange.

[DaisyNonna]

Absolutely love blowing bubbles. Devastated that my grand chilren are now too big to need my assistance down a slide. Never could get swings right but willing to keep on trying. Ooh to have a go on a Witch's Hat. The joy of a helterskelter! Adult playground or ballpark. Yes Please. But would have to bulldoze my daughter aside.

[Ann]

Loved the swings and slides but hated see-saws in the 50s - I was such a little pudding heavier than most - I always hit the ground with a tremendous thud and left my friend stranded in the air! Once I hit the ground really hard and somehow got my feet in the way, its a wonder I didn't break my ankles. 'Elf n Safety are you listening .....you aint seen nothing today!

[marval]

There is an adult playground.

http://news.bbc.co.uk...anchester/7217074.stm

[Ann]

A playground for pensioners - thats great marval! Thanks for finding that - I definitely would use it if I lived in Manchester as gyms are far too expensive and playground equipment would be much more fun. I would love to send this article
http://news.bbc.co.uk...anchester/7217074.stm to Leicestershire County Council to start one in our county - BUT I hear them say they "have no money to fund THAT!" (even though they are saving loads by plunging our streets in total darkness every night!!!!! but thats another story!)

[carolegif]

We have one of those playgrounds in Paignton at Preston Green behind the beach huts. Only thing is - the children love them and we don't get a turn until they go back to school!

[marval]

Yes, I think they are a good idea. Why should children have all the fun?

[boxtops]

I fell off a seesaw when I was 14 and damaged my coccyx - I've not been a big fan of playgrounds since, but I do like the bubbles. At our carnival there were people selling the bubble wands to make the Huge Bubbles - they were good.