My favourite present! #Blogtober16

I am taking part in Blogtober16 and will be writing posts with various themes/prompts throughout October....Today's prompt is: Favourite Christmas/Birthday present ever!!

I actually have two favourite presents but they are both the same thing.

When I was two or three years old I got a trampoline. It is the first Christmas I can ever remember. It wasn't wrapped but it had all of my presents on it....

A few years later. I was about 8 or 9 years old again at Christmas my parents bought me a trampoline. A big 5ft by 5ft one....Similar to the one below. 

There was no padding on it and no net like they have now a days...In the 80's there was no such thing as health and safety. hehehe

On Christmas morning I came downstairs and again all my presents were on it. I opened my presents on the trampoline, threw a huge tantrum when I was asked to get off it for Christmas dinner. My parents just wanted an easy Christmas day so I was allowed to eat on it....I spent all day on it.

When Christmas was over it was just flipped up and lent against the living room wall. I got the hang of just pulling it down and playing on it....It's a good job my mother had a lot of patience. I don't think I could have a trampoline in my living room.....

I remember having the trampoline for years.....When we moved to the farm it came with us. That's when the fun started. My brother and I would jump off the chicken sheds onto it and into paddling pools off it....

We eventually wore it out. The springs started to break and it was eventually taken away in a skip. That was a sad day!