Trampolines

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 30 May 2005, 17:57

Hey there, summer is almost here and I'm looking to purchase a trampoline for my self and my little sister (yes I'm a big kid really).

So does anyone here have one if so where did you buy it from and how much was it... oh and how much fun are they!

I'm looking at getting a 13' one, as my garden is only about 16-17' wide. lol.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 30 May 2005, 19:06

They do look a lot of fun, don't they Robin!
We don't have one, but a friend does and my nine year old son has enjoyed playing on it. I'm hopelesss at estimating measurements but it's a decent size. I'll ask her about it the next time I see her and let you know what her responses are.

Beach Babe · Post by **Beach Babe** » 30 May 2005, 21:17

have no idea Robin but when you get one please may I come round and have a shot?

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 30 May 2005, 22:50

My kids love their trampoline and it's definitely been well used

Not sure what size it is ...maybe about 8-10ft

We bought ours in Makro a couple of years ago for around Ã‚Â£100 and I think they still have them from time to time at around that price

Agros seem to have a massive selection

trampolines

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 31 May 2005, 09:20

My neighbour bought hers on the net and is very happy with it. Watch the prices tho' they tend to go up and down a lot!

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 31 May 2005, 23:02

Cheers for the input folks.

I managed to get a hold of a makro catalog which has a 13' trampoline with an all weather cover for Ã‚Â£100! decent! Just need to find someone with a makro card.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 01 Jun 2005, 13:01

We bought a trampoline for our kids from a company called Supertramp (Google)

They do proper trampolines, not like the kind you get in in Agros (Wherever that is

).

It was the best value for money out of any "Toy" that we ever purchased. it lay outside in all weathers for more than 10 years and was the focal "play" point for many of the kids in the street. You are making a good decision.

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 01 Jun 2005, 23:20

Had a look at supertramp, bit out of my price range. Hoping to have one in place for this weekend. will report back then!

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 01 Jun 2005, 23:32

Robin! wrote:Had a look at supertramp, bit out of my price range.

I agree - the prices are the Crime of the Century!

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 02 Jun 2005, 11:55

It worries me that in spite of my youth

I understood that reference of PoP's...but I love Supertramp.

Good luck getting one, Robin!, at a reasonable price. Then you could invite us all round for a shot...

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 02 Jun 2005, 17:36

Bellybabe wrote:Then you could invite us all round for a shot...

You'll need to join the ever growing que!

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 02 Jun 2005, 23:32

Robin! wrote: You'll need to join the ever growing que!

Que?

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 04 Jun 2005, 12:37

My sister got one for her kids from Toys r us (she went to B&Q but the guy told her Toys r us was cheaper) - there are nice honest shop assistants out there!!

It was Ã‚Â£120 including the netting round the sides - which makes it look pretty horrendous but stops the kids falling off. It is 12ft and takes up a lot of garden!

We helped build it last weekend - so had a shot - its fab!

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 04 Jun 2005, 23:17

Bought one yesterday from Makro and assembled it today, managed to get a wee piccy inbetween the showers

Post by **wangi** » 04 Jun 2005, 23:17

Whoa!

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 07 Jun 2005, 22:58

Did you order the good weather then, along with your trampoline ?
How's wee sis enjoying it?

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 08 Jun 2005, 17:07

Marya wrote:Did you order the good weather then, along with your trampoline ?
How's wee sis enjoying it?

I assembled the trampoline inbetween those showers on Saturday, but the weather has been great since

Sister loves the trampoline, she is on as I type

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 06 Aug 2005, 11:43

My daughter broke her ankle on Wednesday (her 11th birthday) on her trampoline and has had to have an op to pin it back together. We've spent most of the last 48 hours at the Sick Kids. The hospital was groaning with kids with trampoline fractures and other injuries.
Word of warning..never let your kid bounce at the same time as their overweight cousin

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 06 Aug 2005, 11:50

foxy wrote:My daughter broke her ankle on Wednesday (her 11th birthday) on her trampoline and has had to have an op to pin it back together. We've spent most of the last 48 hours at the Sick Kids. The hospital was groaning with kids with trampoline fractures and other injuries.
Word of warning..never let your kid bounce at the same time as their overweight cousin

Poor wee soul. She must have been/be in so much pain.
Hope she mends quickly.

There's been so much in the press recently about the dangers of trampolines and the surge in A and E visits as a result of their current popularity.

CatzVP · Post by **CatzVP** » 06 Aug 2005, 14:44

Hope your daughter feels better soon Foxy...

Were we all indestructable? considering all the safety features that were not in place when I was a young (the Swing park in front of Towerbank school's solid tarmac surfaces, the Trampoline Centre where people squeezed between the springs to go underneath the trampolines, and also go onto one 3 at a time, playing inside the Open Air pool even though it was shut down, because someone had left one window unboarded, cycling along the beach wall in BMX bikes) no one I knew got hurt as a kid.

and yet...... our friends over here got their son a trampoline with safety side net, safety padded posts, and padded spring cover mats. and the kid still fell getting off it injuring himself by falling down 4 safety steps onto grass.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 08 Aug 2005, 18:40

My niece was today doing handstands on her trampoline

Ended up breaking her arm near her elbow, going back in tomorrow to get it plastered under anasthetic.

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 08 Aug 2005, 20:23

Ouch, I read a lot in the press recently.. specially the boy who is now paralysed (sp)

I've had a few close ones, specially at the party a few mates got a bit silly after a few beers.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 08 Sep 2005, 22:07

How's the Foxy cub's ankle??

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 08 Sep 2005, 22:10

Thanks for asking Poppy... back to the Sick Kids tomorrow to be un-plastered hopefully..she has loved the attention though...thats my girl

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 08 Sep 2005, 22:12

Hope all goes OK!

And how are the other POL-child injuries, Bellybabe and Sandra?

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 08 Sep 2005, 22:26

Poppy wrote:Hope all goes OK!

And how are the other POL-child injuries, Bellybabe and Sandra?

Thinking about it, hope Social Services have not been lurking on this site recently

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 08 Sep 2005, 22:39

<grin>

Biggest Bellybaby is doing fine, thanks for asking. He had a white, old-fashioned stuckie (is that how that's spelled? We call it a plaster where I come from...) first, then a blue one, then a green one, and now a red one. He had the wire taken out last week and he should get rid of the cast next week, at last. He's pretty much back to normal now...but I hope we don't have to go through that ever again. Seeing one's baby lying on the prom moaning in agony with an s-shaped bend in his arm is not a good experience...nor are the Brighton Place cobbles or the Duddingston speed bumps...

He had a fight with my brother about wearing a helmet - thank God my brother and I had had a conversation the night before where I mentioned F was always suposed to wear one. It's not worth thinking about what would have happened if he hadn't been wearing one. Hopefully F himself will remember the lesson he learned there.

Miss Bellybabe

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 09 Sep 2005, 12:37

Well the plaster is off the wee skinny leg, but still on crutches for the time being...so I'm back to fetching, carrying and taxi-ing until further notice

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 09 Sep 2005, 13:54

Glad to hear about the plaster Foxy. You have many years of fetching etc ahead.

(Although it would be rude to say that if we were in the Manchester area)

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 09 Sep 2005, 15:49

My niece is still in stookie, she has tastefully decorated it in pink and purple love hearts, I was quite disappointed as was looking forward to putting my scrawl over it, like happened in my day. Thanks for asking.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 20 Sep 2005, 19:38

Well, you can add my son to the growing list of POL children with a stookie. Not a trampoline or a cycling injury , but a piggyback game with another kid gone wrong. He's torn all the ligaments in his ankle apparently and is in plaster from knee to toe. He is not at all pleased at having to use crutches - maybe it's something to do with my Long John Silver impersonations

and promises to buy him a parrot.
He'd much prefer that I gave him lots of sympathy (and Calpol) and that I'd peel him some grapes.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 20 Sep 2005, 19:48

Oh no! Poor boy. I want to know all about it as F's accident has turned me into someone who cares about other children when they have accidents

...

But I'd also like to know how you all are just because.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 20 Sep 2005, 19:51

Marya wrote:Well, you can add my son to the growing list of POL children with a stookie. Not a trampoline or a cycling injury , but a piggyback game with another kid gone wrong. He's torn all the ligaments in his ankle apparently and is in plaster from knee to toe.

Poor wee guy!

Stop poking fun at him and get peeling those grapes, you heartless woman.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 20 Sep 2005, 20:53

Oh Marya what a shame

Hope he's not in too much pain.

I'm sure you're already discovering all the things you won't be able to do for the next few weeks and the impact being on cutches will have on your normal routines. Get well soon Marya-Homer-et

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 20 Sep 2005, 21:15

poor wee soul - hope he feels better soon