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Ring a Rosie swing!
Courtesy of Ausralia Remembers When!
Ah yes, the old days when we played as hard and as fast as we could on some fairly dodgy looking equipment. Swings, slippery dips, see-saws and other gear that, from memory, seemed to have very little thought put into the safety aspect. And the playground at school was built on a bitumen court with no soft places to fall. I can recall (you probably can too) hanging upside down from the monkey bars, climbing to the top of the climbing bars, jumping off the merry-go-round, swinging as hard as you could on a swing and jumping off at full height because somebody ‘double-dared’ you.
A school friend of mine broke his wrist, another got a broken arm from flying off the merry-go-round but, by and large, amazingly most of us got through without too much damage.
