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About six months back I was contacted by the brilliantly named Big Game Hunters, a company that makes garden toys and equipment, wanting to know if I wanted to review a swing. Rather cheekily I said no, but that I was quite interested in climbing frames (rather more expensive, clearly, but if you don't ask you don't get).
Disappointingly, if not entirely surprisingly, they aren't going to send me an entirely free climbing frame, but they suggested we could trial their (free to all comers) design service to create a climbing frame just for us.
I told them our budget (up to £1,250 or thereabouts - grandparents have kindly been contributing to this fund for birthdays and Christmases), and the lovely Abby has designed not one, but four options, all of which I can tweak as desired.
The problem, of course, is that I'm not a small child and so I don't actually have any idea about what is brilliant fun for the next ten years (possibly a little optimistic in L's case, but hopefully not in M's) and what is just gimmicky and will never be played with.
Which is hopefully where you come in. What do you think of the designs below? What did/do your children/friends/neighbours/that horrid little boy you never liked anyway enjoy?
All thoughts very welcome!
Number 1: I think there are monkey bars going over behind the swing. Not sure how that would work. Like the bridge though
Number 2: M clearly couldn't manage that cargo net contraption yet, but should that stop us?
Number 3: Where do we stand on the tunnel? I rather like it...
Number 4: ...But is a bridge more fun? Answers on a postcard.
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The disclosure bit - the design service is free to everyone, but they have offered to give us some money off the actual climbing frame if we buy it. How much, I'm not sure yet! 
