Everytime I see this playground I tend to get a little bit envious. I would have loved an epic pirate ship playground as a kiddly wink. Most of the playgrounds I would climb over were made of treated pine, towards the end of my childhood they were transitioning into the bright metal playgrounds you see all the time now.
It also turns out playgrounds have to have a going over at least once a week by someone who is playground certified. I have not done this course, so we get someone else to do it. It basically means that a person who is trained to look for hazards and potential dangers for children can look over the playground and check that it is still safe for a child to play on. For example a couple of weeks ago in the playground in memorial, the plastic cover had come off the safety chain on the baby swing. To me or you that doesnt sound like very much at all. The person we have check it zipped off to get a new plastic cover and promptly warned the people using the swing that the cover was missing and just to be aware of it. It seems like such an insignificant thing, but the links in the chain are small and babies fingers can get caught inbetween them. The idea never even occurred to me. It was fixed by the end of the morning making it safer for the children, and safer for children means I dont hear as many children crying that they have hurt themselves. This is a good thing, as some kids have a magnificent set of lungs when they get injured.
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