It was the best of times for insanely awesome, dangerous places for kids to play, it was the worst of times.
I read it in the magazine (the best magazine to subscribe to--no ads, huge beautiful photos), and the pictures are gorgeous.
I've been wanting to set the final chase scene of a horror movie in one of those.
I can't decide if it would be going too far to make the monster an evil clown.
I associate adventure playgrounds with the opening of Seven Up.
(the best magazine to subscribe to--no ads, huge beautiful photos)
Oh good. I know somebody for whom it would make a good gift subscription.
I can't decide if it would be going too far to make the monster an evil clown.
Never.
I know Schwarzenegger's catch-phrase in Help-Chalk's new movie.
"Adventure playground" (Abenteuer Spielplatz) in Germany is a little bit different. Most of the ones I've encountered allow kids to actually build parts of the things they play in, with big pieces of wood provided that you can use to make structures.
8: Presumably, "Fuck you, clown"
That might even be the name of the movie.
This is an exciting German playground company.
Bill Cosby on bad old style playgrounds.
Berkeley has one of the European style adventure playgrounds that Blume mentioned:
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/contentdisplay.aspx?id=8656
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jariceiii/5920034520/
It is a lot of fun.
This sweet, sweet cement slide in another Berkeley park is amazing, not least because it still exists in this day and age. You slide down it with bits of cardboard.
I have never used cardboard on a concrete slide, I don't think, but we always used to go to the dunes and slide down them on a piece of waxed cardboard. Oh, the fun.
Berkeley has more than one concrete slide.
Codornices! I'd go there after my finals every semester. They used to have cool really tall swings.
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Maybe I can hijack this thread, after mentioning that there is a big concrete slide in Palo Alto as well. A family member has told me she fears that her husband is going to leave her and their infant son, and she doesn't know how to persuade him to stay. Question, then: have any of you ever seen or heard of a successful persuasion-to-stay? I tend to see these things as totally hopeless, and all the anecdotal cases I can think of were pretty hopeless. You can limp along for a while, but it's usually a mortal injury.
I'm sure there's archival discussion somewhere, no?
This is awful. The kid isn't even six months old.
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I can't advise on how to stay, but I can advise your friend to immediately go to a family lawyer.
Because, if she has a not even six month old son, she will need money. Sorry to be so crass, but that sounds pretty hopeless.
Any successful persuasion-to-stay discussion would have everything to do with their particular circumstances, no? I've certainly heard of parents of young kids staying together as a joint childraising venture, to be in place for some number of years until the kids are old enough, with the understanding that in actual fact the romantic part of the relationship is over.
That would require that your relative acknowledge and accept that it's over romantically. Maybe she doesn't want to do that.
20: I am hoping that this email was the result of short-term panic and that I never get independent confirmation that the separation talk ever happened. It would be a financial nightmare. I'm sure she can and would get lawyered up in the event -- close friends and allies are very good lawyers. No details here, but she's in an unusually bad financial position, one that it would terrify me to be in.
The most optimistic separation scenario I can imagine is that the guy leaves, there is general misery, and he comes back a few weeks later begging forgiveness. He's pretty impulsive. I'm hoping that he just hasn't thought any of the consequences through.
I hope so too. I'm really sorry for your friend. I hope she has a good support network/mental health service network.
I associate adventure playgrounds with the opening of Seven Up.
That's the only place I've ever heard the phrase until this thread. (I am dying for 56 up to be available in the U.S.)
19: Just heard yesterday that my neighbors, who have a 2 year-old son, are probably splitsville. Such a drag. They have been great neighbors and I really like both of them. Very sad.
I have not heard any useful advice on this subject. This is probably one of those "guy didn't realize he wasn't done growing up yet, and neither did his partner" cases, isn't it?
