BROKEN BONES

Just a short post today. My son broke his wrist yeasterday playing in the park. He bounced off the safety matting on the floor.

What a good job the park was equipped with such a flooring as if it hadnt he would have more than likly shattered his wrist rather than just breaking it.

When I was young (which wasnt to many years ago) there was no such thing as protective flooring. Parks (in the good old days) must have caused parents no end of worry. Im a nervous wreck as it is in todays health and safety crazy world when it comes to protecting my son so dont think I would have let him near any of the parks I used to play in.

I do remember one occassion the day before I was flying out to spain with my mum and dad being at a park near my house that had a beem some 10ft off the ground. Dont ask me what its correct use was, but us kids used to walk accross it. For some strange reason I managed to convince my mum I could do it. For some even stranger reason she let me try. I remember getting half way accross and losing my footing. I fell the full 10ft to the ground and landed flat on my back. What a nightmare. Luckily I didnt break anything or do any serious damage but was seriously winded. I no doubt caused my mum near heart failure.

Not really much point to this post but thought I would throw that story in and say that if that park had had the protective flooring I would have probably bounced back up. Health and safety isnt all that bad after all.

We managed to go on holiday by the way.....