Senior Playgrounds

Yes, Virginia, there is a Senior Claus. According to this article in yesterday's Daily Mail, "Britain's first playground for the over-60s" opened yesterday, in Manchester, England. I quote:

"Instead of slides and roundabouts, it is equipped with machines specially designed to provide gentle exercise for different parts of the body such as hips, legs and torso.

"The Massage offers upper body exercise, the Skate trains leg muscles, the Ski works the hips, while the Press tones the stomach and legs.

There are also stations for pull-ups, push-ups and pedalling and, to stretch the mind as well as the body, engravings of quotes from famous philosophers dotted around the park."

Whatever does what, the important thing is that someone who understands our need to play is paying attention to us outgrowns, at last.


via Neatorama
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith