General Chat

The young un's (aged 8) shinned up one of our trees the last two days after school. He's given me a running commentary for the top of the tree about what he could see. :-D

who needs a drone when you have an 8-year-old and a tree? :-D

Mum really is right a lot of the time though. My little brother bounced on the bed when he was about 2 and when he fell off he got a head injury that had to have a shunt put in his head and he had to be taken by bus to hospital to have it drained every second day for weeks ...

My mum would not leave him there because I had been so miserable for three months in hospital the year before when I fell off a playground climbing thing and broke myself.

We were the children all the other mums told theirs about. :-D

He's exactly like his mum was (our daughter).

Now, Joonie, I can warn him about what happened to you if he goes overboard. :-D

Although, he already knows how I shattered my smile when I was young. :-D

Children climbing trees- fantastic!! :-D

A bout 4 years ago, we were camping - my sister, her son, his partner, my daughter, and 5 children. The two middle ones (5 and 4) were in a small tree nearby, (they were about 4 foot off the ground!) surveying the land and having a chat, when this other child, about the same age, came along and said they shouldn't be in the tree - because his daddy said he wasn't allowed in it :-(

He was ignored.......

Joonie, I've had many tumbles that 'should' have resulted in a broken bone or two, but I was lucky - or it could be the genes!!
Apart from one of my brothers, none of the family - that includes parents, siblings, children and grandchildren - has (so far) broken a bone - but my grand daughter does play contact rugby!!.
The brother is the exception, but when you're thrown off a motorbike at speed, by a car 'T' boning you, a broken bone or two is inevitable :-(

I started young ... broke my arm falling off a tricycle at five. Leg, on the playground thing at seven. Foot twice in 30s and 40s, same bone, same trick: walk off the edge of the pavement.

Finally snapped fibula at the ankle four years ago, slipping on linoleum ... so there's hardly any point in playing it safe when the linoleum is just going to get you in the end, is there?!

Oh gosh, Joonie!
At 5, I was jumping off swings that had originally been quite a way from the huge hole created when gravel was removed. As time went on, the edges of the quarry eroded, the swings became neared the edge of the quarry, that was mainly sand, with the odd boulder.
We used to see if we could get high enough, so that when we jumped off the swings, we went over the edge and onto the sand (hopefully missing boulders!!)
At 6, Walter ran me over, with his bike.
At 10, me and a few friends used to jump off the cliffs at Mevagissey.
If you 'swung' to the left, you missed the rocks......
I was on the beach with my parents once, when the air-sea rescue had to come and rescue two climbers who were stuck on theses same cliffs.
I asked why they didn't just fall, it wasn't too high. Dad said it was, I boasted about jumping of the top - it was easy.
I was grounded for a week :-(
I went back as an adult..........they are high!!
As an adult, I wouldn't recommend jumping off them' :-0

I did, however, tear the cartilage in my knee - as an adult - walking to work!
It was raining, the flagstones were slippery - but it was a piece of old, dried, but wet with rain, chewing gum that was my downfall :-)
I slipped, but stopped myself falling (and possibly wetting my clothes, or breaking a bone), and damaged my knee :-(