“Doris and May found a new use for the African water pumps”

How often have you went to a children’s playground and got stuck in the slide or realised that the motorbike-on-a-spring now requires a chiropractor to help you get back on your feet after that first initial lunge backwards - when it hits you, that your hulking frame won’t be “springing” back up again. And still, we all wish we could gallivant in a park without feeling like a giant, and that people wouldn’t notice when we try to have a sneaky go on the equipment whilst maintaining we’re playing with a younger sibling.

The future looked bleak up until yesterday, when the Pensioners’ Playground was revealed in Manchester, England.

The BBC reports:

The Older People’s Play Area on the Dam Head Estate in Blackley, is kitted out with equipment to strengthen hips, tone legs and train the upper body.It was set up by the local residents’ association, who were inspired by a similar playground in Germany.

And the olds are loving it too!

“I’d recommend anyone to come and have a go, after all you’re never too old to play,” Joan Fitzgerald, 76.

“This is BEEZER!!”

Belfast needs one of these.