{"id":23553,"date":"2016-12-25T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T16:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23553"},"modified":"2016-12-25T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T16:53:32","slug":"installing-ground-level-trampoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/12\/installing-ground-level-trampoline\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing a Ground Level Trampoline"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing Morgan had wanted for Christmas it was a trampoline. You know the sort, the big blue ugly things that everyone seems to have rusting away\u00a0in their gardens. He’s been wanting one\u00a0for ages and we had always categorically said no<\/strong>. We had loads of reason why not as well.<\/p>\n

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  1. They’re ugly. I\u00a0didn’t want such a monstrosity in my garden.<\/li>\n
  2. They’re expensive (although not as expensive as we expected).<\/li>\n
  3. It\u00a0wouldn’t cope with the Ynyslas winds. They get blown around wherever they are but at Ynyslas it\u00a0wouldn’t last a few days before getting blown away.<\/li>\n
  4. It would no doubt\u00a0destroy our conservatory or someone else house as it got blown away.<\/li>\n
  5. With sand for soil there was no way of fixing it to the ground without concreting it in.<\/li>\n
  6. Did I say they are ugly?<\/li>\n
  7. It would rust in no time here. Anything metal does and when they rust, they are even more ugly. Until\u00a0you’ve lived here you\u00a0don’t know how fast the sand and salt can disintegrate metal. It\u00a0wouldn’t stand a chance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And that\u00a0doesn’t mention the safety aspects – a friend of mine broke her back on a trampoline. Nor does it mention the amount of garden it would take up. And finally, they are just plain ugly!<\/p>\n

    No, No No<\/strong>, you can’t have a trampoline, there’s NO WAY<\/strong> we’re having one of those ugly things in the garden. It’ll rust, it’ll blow away and it’s just ugly. No Chance, No Way, you’re not having one<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Giving In<\/h2>\n

    Needless to say – we gave in!<\/p>\n

    To be fair, we weren’t quite that submissive. It came down to the fact that it was Christmas and that’s all that Morgan had been asking for all year. As caring\u00a0parents we’d love to get him just what he wanted so we tried to work out a way of doing it.<\/p>\n

    Ground Level Trampoline<\/h2>\n