A wise man once said to me (it was my Dad actually), there's no such thing as a strange swing, just ones you haven't swung on yet. What wisdom!Today I went to Lambert Park in Leichhardt and tried out a couple of new swings. There is one with really long chains, which lets you swing up into a nearby tree (you can touch your head and your feet to the foliage). The seats are too damn narrow though! I hate that! It's next to two big roads so the ambience is a bit ruined... an 8 I think.
Then there's the other swings there, which are quite odd. They look like they've been designed by an Italian minimalist sporting a simple aluminium frame. The seats are even tighter on the old hips than the other ones, forcing you to sit right back on the seat,
which makes for a bit of a perilous ride. The ground underneath them has been worn away so that it gets filled with water easily which is a bit yucky. The odd thing about them is that the chains on them are really short so you feel like you're swinging on more of a vertical plain - every swing feels cut short. It's a cool feeling. But the pain of the hips and the wetness underfoot makes these only a 6.5. See how fearless I am in my marking?! I'll not do any swing any favours unless they really do it for me!
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