Angles on a slide-show.

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “From Every Angle.”

Following on the jungle gym demolition featured yesterday, I now focus on an article which kept slipping in prominently – the slide.  Yesterday afternoon it occurred to me that I should try to invent a way of making use of it for the time being until a new creation arises from the bits and/or we put in a pool. This was the result:

This wall seemed ideal, and the ladder from the jungle gym to the left gives easy access – well, to the agile it does!

I tested it and the ladder leading to it, and found them to be firm. Nevertheless, Much Better Half went into freak-out mode when I suggested the grandgirls should try it. The latter were also most dubious, especially when looking from the top:

Scary, isn’t it?
Note my really respectable shoe – haha – and as a matter of interest the pipe on the lawn is feeding washing machine and washing-up water to the grass during the drought.

I positioned myself halfway to catch them, and encouraged them to go for it. Each time I slowed them down a bit lower, until finally my services were no longer required and a dizzy cycle of ladder-climbing and slide-slithery commenced, continuing with enthusiasm this morning. Both of them even mastered the art of climbing up the slide – barefooted, of course.

This indicates how steep it actually is.

Their mother also had cadenzas when she saw the construction, and was amazed when she viewed her young offspring zooming up and down. She has refused to try it herself.

The height can be seen in relation to young R – taking a break from sliding while cuddling a Gemma fresh from the Pooch Parlour, which all five dogs attended today. I had a ferry busy time hounding them into the car.  The poles behind her have been set aside for a swing I hope to make.

I have a theory that over-protection from things which provide real risk to the incautious actually makes children more vulnerable – they haven’t learnt to cope with them when (as inevitably happens) such situations do arise. My theory is not, however, popular with the other adult part of this little family.

So I have given four angles instead of three.  Do I get Brownie points?

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