It's been a warm week so I've been outdoors a lot exploring, playing and I do have my own swing actually and thinking a bit about this side of life.
The thing was back when I was originally young for one thing there were not disabled friendly playgrounds with activities for all and most involved rather more agility and often spinning at speed which if you suffer from motion sickness even at modest speeds isn't much good.
It wasn't that I didn't like thrill of speed, it just made me ill.
There wasn't then much exploratory play such was tunnels you could worm your way through or what is called "soft play".
The other thing was surfaces then were hard either concrete slabs or tarmac which as I found out and am still living with consequences of can cause series long term injuries as much as we accept however unpleasant it is a grazed knee doesn't last forever and we have to take risks in life.
The weekend was joyful for the happy squeals of children playing in the park, dashing about on their bikes in groups playing and having fun together.
That's a big part of what Childhood is about either as that child or enjoying a more child-like life as a legal adult.
It's been a wash out week here thanks to Storm Brendan although I did manage to get out earlier in the mornings for a stroll as I am growing skin on this ankle with two scabs to show for it.
One thing I did do was play with my lego as one limitation of the original "classic set" I had last year was unlike the one I had when I was nine, it was deficient in windows and doors apart from coming in a plastic tool type box where the original was in card with plastic wells.
Although mine was bigger, it was a bit like this which I think is better as bags are unwieldy and prone to tearing.
The set I had for Christmas that I put labelling up each bag with some paper stickers was transferred into that new box with the instructions.
Part of it is what we don't tend to think about what it would of cost today for our folks to had bought it and I know the RRP of the set I bought was around £40 even if I got it discounted heavily for outer cosmetic damage.
It is quite probable such a set today would of been close to £80 or more which would of been seen as a lot so it's little wonder it was a bit lacking.
That bungalow is something I knocked together in the space of an hour and half assembled as I thought it through very much on the fly using a few of the extra bits namely the windows and one door which shows how adding those extra bits transforms the set into something that is of more use although I'd willing trade the pink bricks for white which the older sets had together with blue,yellow and red.
No doubt that was some cack handed attempt to reach out to girls but the kind of girls who wanted things like lego wasn't the pink princess sort so really it wasn't, like most of those things necessary after all.
