Ok, so, the way it goes is this - we need bark to be able to run a safe playground so that if our children fall down, they fall on a safe, tested safety surface. 

Bark costs money, huge amounts of money and for some time we weren't able to top up our bark - until now. 

 

We needed at least a tonne (to be exact, we had to buy nearly 2000 80 litre bags. 

That turned out to be 112 pallet loads of bark we had to shift from 8am to 7pm. 

 

All the staff & volunteers got through 111 pallets by the time the children came to play at 3.30pm. 

The builders from the development across the road watched from dawn to dusk as each pallet was unloaded and brought into the playground on a fork lift. 

 

Even the fork lift gave up half way through and caused a halt in the delivery, the motor burnt out.  As the builders watched us, we moved the bags to corners of the playground and began to empty this mass of bark throughout our playground as a team. 



No one moaned about their backs, no one complained that they couldn't make it out of illness, we just got on with it as a team. 

Once the children came in, they were happy to help, from aged 5 to 16 years, they lugged the last bags from the very last pallet.  And as a playground in one day, we cleared the lot. 

How proud were we?  

Very! And the builder opposite told Gary just how much they were amazed at how quickly we all worked to get it laid.  Super human?  Yeah we are the dark night's! *rolls eyes*

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