Night swinging

I've got a new camera, so I can finally do some night swing photography! I went to Ashfield to get my night swinging kicks. I felt torn - I wanted to take the photos AND be on the swing, but patience was required.

Swing lackey kindly offered both his swing modelling and photographing skills <---




And I swung my little heart out --->

You have to swing little swings when you're getting photographed though.





<--- This was an attempt to use a torch to make the swinger visible (this is the other swing set at the park), but instead it just gave a cool effect...

What other park would you go to at 9 o'clock at night to do some swinging, and find another couple (even older than us) doing the same (and also using the monkey bars!)?



Gotta love that Ashfield Park!!! So many unique new friends to meet. There's the couple who walk through there clapping their hands a-rhythmically, and the man who walks with the silver balls in his had circling them around in his palm. There's the tai chi groups (rival factions exist, with about 4 groups usually in the mornings), then there's the rebel tai chi people (usually a lone male), who's doing CRAZY tai chi-esque moves. One guy looked like he was doing a combination of break dancing and tai chi.

Then there's the guy who takes a whip down there every morning and has a good old crack of it. There's often a backwards walker/runner or two, and a group of three older Italian gentlemen who walk together conversing loudly and gesticulating wildly to one another. Lots of Chinese and Indian grandmas and grandpas come with their offspring's offspring to show them off to their friends - it's the coolest place to hang out for the oldies you see. There's a Mary Poppins statue and a commemorative plaque for International speak your mother tongue year, and a war memorial with lots of rosemary around it. I've often wondered whether it would be really bad to take a sprig of rosemary for cooking with, but feel like this might be a bit disrespectful.

I LOVE ASHFIELD PARK!