Playtime Places

We are very lucky here. We have 'land,lots of land' which is a good thing as, to quote my dad 'they're not making anymore of it!' So our Little Australians can run riot outside from sun up to sun down without disturbing neighbours and, apart from the deadly wild life factors, without a worry. 


               I have pics of more wildlife and will add them 'one day'

Red Belly Black Snake

Echindas

A Coastal Python

Cane Toads

Koala (with baby but very well hidden)

 That does not stop My Beloved however from 'making' play areas. When the Man Child and Big Miss where little we had a fort/cubby house with a sandpit underneath. All made from round pine logs. the walls and roof were green shade cloth and the stairs ramp was two brick pallets leading up to the fort. Worked well for a while. Then it was pulled down and we  made gardens in its place. The kids have played in every area of the 'yard' in every kind of weather!

Out the back in the mud.

In a tire on the 'west' side of the house.

Out the back,back with friends.

Out the front after two weeks of rain!

Out the back again.

Out the front in the rain!

So a play area has never really been required, not like it would be in a smaller yard ( Oh how we REALLY could not live in suburbia again... EVER!!)


But My Beloved likes to 'do' things and last week whilst recovering from the flu and before he came down with the poo and spew bug, he re-did the play area he made earlier in the year.

He filled the sand pit he had started a few days earlier. Note the fashionable attire he is donning.  Once upon a time he wore only slacks and dress shirts and shoes... can you believe it?

    When Mr Cheeky realised what was going on he could not wait to 'help'.

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Littlest Miss was already outside supervising the proceedings. In the shade of a gum tree that My beloved had 'saved' from the slasher many years ago, long before any of 'us' had come along because he thought it was 'nice'.

                            
                           It was knee high then but not anymore.

Naturally the sand pit has been a favourite and I especially LOVE the washing it creates! But even Big Miss and her friend found it entertaining the other day (though they seemed to be having an important 'girly' convo at the time!)

The trampoline gets the most use and causes the most crying and fighting as well. I hate, hate, hate trampolines and can completely understand why my father and My Beloved's father were never fans. Dangerous contraptions!

The play area is right where I want the 'visitor parking' to be situated BUT as the kids are still little and My Beloved has gone to the effort of a concrete edge and to fill it with bark. It shall remain the play area.


 BUT AFTER THAT... Well. Parking area it will be damn it! ;D