QUICKBLOCKS

Recently, I met up with a retired teaching friend who now volunteers with the G.R.O.W. Project at Inverness Botanic Garden. She kindly gave me a behind-the-scenes tour of the project which includes several poly tunnels and composting areas, tool sheds and other...

Mr Therm the Play Train

In today’s society most all playground features are mass-produced homogeneous affairs. Like other manufactured items, once you are in the know, you can have fun guessing the maker and checking on the label. This post is long overdue about a local play feature...

What Rusty Keeler Said

Many of you may be familiar with Rusty Keller. He is the author Natural Playscapes. I’ve had a well-thumbed copy of his book, and always liked the photos, the humour and funky little drawings within it. I’ve a preference books that shed light on the...

Katanning All Ages Playground

In 2014, Alec Duncan from Child’s Play Music wrote two fantastic and memorable blog posts about Katanning All Ages Playground. You can read them here and here. I was mesmerised. The structures are unique and quite different from anything else I had ever seen. In...
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