Take Three Boys
August 23, 2007A recipe for hours of summer fun, this recipe makes a VERY fast and long slide, take the following ingredients (after conducting risk assessment.)
- Three muddy boys, who have spent the morning den building and ‘making bricks from clay’
- A sloping garden of a reasonable gradient (it came with the house, a byproduct of living at the top of a hill.)
- A large fiberglass tube (salvaged from a builders skip, I am such a skip rat; but I did ask permission and I did make a donation to the charity that owned it, would you believe it was a fire escape from a residential home for the disabled! I am pleased to say they have come up with an evacuation plan that now retains a little more dignity for the residents.
- Some plastic sheets
- A hose pipe, a bottle of shower gel (unwanted raffle prize from a village coffee morning)
- Some sunshine
- Remove all surplus clothing from the boys, insert boys in tube, repeat all afternoon and most of the following day.
This recipe make for easily entertained boys, a top tip is to supply sugary drinks and snacks; running up the hill is thirsty work and spending the evening with a house full of grumpy, exhausted and dehydrated boys is not recommended.
This recipe also allows parent to, clean mud off kitchen floor, get at a PC and spend secret time mooching around the Internet, whilst drinking a mug of tea, (when what they should really be doing is sewing Joe’s pocket back on his blazer and labels into mounds of school uniform.)
Enjoy
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Sounds like fantastic fun!
Can I come to your house?
I seem to remember doing something similar when I was a child, but we didn’t live on a slope, and only had plastic sheeting, not a fun tunnel…
Adding a child’s paddling pool at the bottom could also be fun?
That looks fantastic! You probably could have earnt yourself a bit of money there by charging the local kids to have a go!
Was the shower gel to make it slippy?
Oh boy that looks to be such great fun!