Bouncy Castle Mulch

After finding out how expensive it was to hire one, I bought a secondhand bouncy castle and blower when my daughter was just a tiny tot and used it extensively for birthdays, summer holidays, etc. and even at Christmas when the weather was fine, but luckily she's no longer interested just as it got to the completely knackered stage.

It's probably cost us less than half the cost of a day's hire for every year we used it, so no regrets on scrapping it. So from a 4 x 6 m castle I'm going to get loads of really heavy duty bright stripey mulch, some of it with clowns, etc. painted on. And then there's the rain cover to find another use for.

 

Did you ever get a chance to have a go on the bouncy castle?

 

Bouncy castles are so much more fun when your a teenager! :D

 

is is nice, especially when bouncing with someone you like .... however

when my children were young, I always used to hire a bouncy castle when on of my kids had a birthday party .... result: crying children with knobs on their heads, black eyes, sprained wrists and ankles and bruised ribs

then, I decided to get a trampoline (a proper professional rectangular trampoline that had a frame/springs, a pit was dug and the trampoline was installed flush with the lawn .... result: even worse ... my mate who came for a BBQ and who was a very good gymnast when he was younger (he won national colours for gymnastics), nearly broke his neck after a few beers ... (had to rush him to hospital and he walked around with a neck brace for several weeks

then ... I saw something similar to what is in this photo ... (some kind of gyro machine) ...never got around to buying one, as I came to the UK ....

looked a lot safer and a lot of fun ... I cannot remember what they were called, but you strapped yourself into this gyro type machine and your body mass and movement made the thing go around in all angles .... apparantly they are very good for building muscle and excersising ...

this pic shows what they look like, but the ones I saw looked a lot better and were made of stainless steel tubing .... have never seen one in the UK ... if I had young children, I would look at buying one of these for the garden