Playgrounds Deluxe

Sydney’s Best Playgrounds- Lagoon Park, Manly

December 19, 2011

Recently rejuventated, this is one of the Manly area’s finest, a great favourite with locals and well worth travelling to visit.

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Newcastle’s Best Playground- Speers Point, Lake Macquarie

December 13, 2011

Hooray! I took the twins to Speers Point playground and we had a fabby time! It really is a magnificent play space. It’s just huge with all sorts of great play equipment. And a cafe has just opened up. Heaven!

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Sydney’s Seven Best Cafes Beside Playgrounds

November 25, 2011

Mums and dads, you NEED to know this information! Is there anything better than a takeaway coffee in the playground? Yes, actually there is. Drinking a coffee in a cafe, with your bottom firmly on a seat, whilst your kids play in a playground within eyesight. As your kids get bigger, this is feasible. I [...]

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Sydney’s Best Parks – Elkington Park, Balmain

November 5, 2011

It’s daft to live in Sydney and not enjoy the water views, but you don’t have to move the family to a harbourfront mansion to do so. There are loads of parks and playgrounds where you can enjoy the views for free. All you need is a blanket and a picnic and don’t forget your [...]

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds- Shelly Beach, Cronulla

September 12, 2011

Don’t you just love that park bench? I once gave it a post all of its own. But today it’s just a teaser for the many joys of Shelley Park playground in Cronulla. In the winter it’s well worth a visit just for the playground, in summer there’s the lovely beach, the rock pool and [...]

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Sydney’s Most Child-Friendly Cafes – Cafe Mirabelle, Terrey Hills

September 2, 2011

Here’s another lovely cafe in a garden centre, so very handy for the weekends. We often come here for breakfast and then pick up what we need for our ill-fated gardening attempts. Lots of families come here for lunch, it’s an excellent place to bring the grandparents.

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How To Find Great Fenced Playgrounds

August 15, 2011

Where are the great, fenced playgrounds in your local area? What if you’re going somewhere new? As I’ve written before in my list of the best fenced playgrounds in Sydney’s north, mums and dads love a fenced playground. It’s one of the things most often remarked on when people read Sydney For Under Fives. Here’s [...]

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds- Burwood Park

August 8, 2011

Burwood Park has such a lot to look at, it’s a lovely place to while away some time on a spring day. There’s the duckpond of course, the elderly gents playing chess and there are places to cycle and scooter. And a terrific, fully enclosed playground! This playground is not modern or groovy, but it [...]

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds- Holroyd Gardens, Merrylands

July 29, 2011

On a sunny winter’s day the playground you need is exactly the opposite to the one you need on a sunny summer’s day. Avoid those shade cloths and find a playground without. If you are around the western suburbs, here’s a great one to head to, especially if you have older children as well [...]

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Sydney’s Best Child-Friendly Cafes, Parks and Baths – Carss Park Cafe & Grill

July 25, 2011

Carss Park really scores the trifecta. There’s a lovely park with a good playground, a cafe right beside that and for summertime splashing the baths are just over there… and there’s even a swimming pool just across the way. This is a gloriously family-friendly place in Sydney’s south, well worth a visit. Here’s the [...]

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds- Lionel Watts, Frenchs Forest

July 21, 2011

Don’t you just love it when your playground has a makeover? It’s almost as good as having a mum makeover yourself? Umm… maybe not! This is one of our very favourite local playgrounds. My little ones are loving it even more since it was revamped. We’re here a lot at the weekend when the big [...]

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds – Hallstrom Park Playground, Willoughby

July 18, 2011

Oh, I do love a playground with a real theme, don’t you? And this one has a ‘zoo animals’ theme, what more could a toddler or preschooler desire? One of Willoughby’s finest, this is a very extensive playground with great spaces for imaginative play, excellent picnic facilities and a swimming pool nearby. It’s got the [...]

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds – Putney Park Playground

July 12, 2011

Marvellous place! A waterplay playground, fine for a very sunny winter’s day and just sublime in summer. My family has been having fun at Putney Park for over a decade…..mostly nude! The humungous slide is a big draw for the older children, little ones need to sit on mum or dad’s lap though, it’s pretty [...]

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds – John Roche Park, Northbridge

July 4, 2011

A lovely lady saved my sanity when the twins were born. She lives and works near this playground so it’s the ideal place to visit with her. She brings her current charges and all the kids run, swing and scoot around. My little ones still love her very much and I do too. How can [...]

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds – Bicentennial Park, Sydney Olympic Park

June 29, 2011

Whaaaat! Don’t tell me you haven’t visited the playgrounds at Sydney Olympic Park’s Bicentennial Park yet??? Pack the car, get over there tomorrow!!

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Sydney’s Best All Abilities Playgrounds- Livvi’s Place and More

June 20, 2011

Who else wants to give a great big kiss to all the lovely people behind a quiet revolution in the world of playgrounds? For a few year now, Liberty Swings have been popping up in more and more playgrounds. That was just the start. Inclusive playgrounds are now being designed and built, where children of all [...]

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Sydney’s Best Fenced Playgrounds – North

May 25, 2011

It was the search for the ideal fully fenced playground that set me off researching Sydney’s best places. I had a really wild, hyper boy-child who was a serial bolter, which was fine until I was pregnant with number two son and it became just too dangerous to go anywhere he could escape from. Nowadays [...]

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Video of Bilarong Playground

May 23, 2011

Here is a one minute video showing the best of Bilarong Playrgound at Narrabeen. Now the production values are not up to BBC standards, but then I was using an iPhone with four kids hanging off me…. it’s not too bad really! Do you manage to take photos and videos when your kids are around? [...]

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds – Willoughby Park

May 18, 2011

My wee ones and I had a fab afternoon at Willoughby Park Playground recently, along with two other sets of twins. This playground has been re-done to a very high standard and it has something for all under-fives… and we parents and carers too.

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds- Blenheim Park, North Ryde

May 16, 2011

This is a new entry in the third edition of Sydney For Under Fives, and a truly welcome addition to the Playgrounds Deluxe chapter. We have spent many happy hours there, usually in the company of lots of mums, dads and kids from school. There is so much space and such a great variety of [...]

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Sydney’s Best Playgrounds + Picnic Spots- Bilarong Playground and Reserve, Narrabeen Lake

May 11, 2011

Ooooo too much great stuff! Not sure where to start with Bilarong Reserve; it’s a battle between the fab views, the excellent play equipment and the wonderful stone sculptures of wondrous mythical beasts. Ummm… the sculptures win! We love them, there are so many and they are divine, our favourites being the snoozing dragons…. [...]

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