I love swings! So I'm out there swinging up a storm, sorting the swing-wheat from the swing-chaff and rating them for the heck of it .... enjoy

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Swinging with Mary Poppins


Ashfield Park is a great park. It's so big and there are lots of flower beds and big trees and a maze and people doing tai chi and a couple who walks around clapping strangely out of time with one other. It's also near where the creator of Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers, lived for six years. I bet Ashfield Park is what inspired her to create Mary Poppins!
But, I digress. There are four lots of swings (eight all up, two of which are for toddlers), each with a different character and outlook on the park. Some of them are too close to the ground (grrrr!) but there's a couple that are just right.
No bad squeek, nice woodchips on the ground, flexible rubber seats, pretty trees nearby.
I'm giving this one a 9 out of 10.
For a 10 it would need a nicer outlook (top of a windswept cliff perhaps) and be close enough to trees that I could touch a leaf or two with my toes when I swang up.

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