One of the things that we’ve been looking forward to about the warmer weather maybe/possibly/potentially arriving is getting Sausage back on her trampoline. She’s been a bouncy child ever since she could first take weight on her legs (which, and I’m not exaggerating here, was at about 6 weeks old. We nicknamed her Tigger and everything) and when we were trying to come up with something to get her for her last birthday, a trampoline was the obvious choice.

The trouble is, her birthday is in August and we didn’t have a particularly brilliant summer last year, so the amount of time she actually spent on it was limited. We were hopeful that she’d be springing into action as soon as spring arrived (did you see what I did there..?!) but that was not to be as, despite being a fan of extreme sports, ‘Dodge the Lightening Trampolining’ is not my idea of healthy recreation for a four year old.

I was having a little Google up, as you do, and I found AllTrampolines, a site which does exactly as its name suggests and sells all things trampoline related. I saw this little 5ft trampoline and it got me thinking; trampolining doesn’t have to stop when the rain and snow starts! There’s even a smaller one on the website called a ‘Jogger’ which is specifically for keeping fit indoors and I’m genuinely considering investing in one for myself. I’ll need some serious sports-bra-chest-binding action before I even get near it, but I reckon indoor mini-tramping could be an amazingly fun way to bounce back to fitness. Not that I’d get a chance to use it, once Sausage got her mitts on it.

Another thing that looks amazingly fun is this trampoline tent – on more than one occasion last year, Sausage asked if we could throw blankets over the net enclosure of her trampoline and make it into an enclosed den for her, but this tent would be an amazing accessory to have for days when she wants to do that and it would save my bed sheets too!

So, here’s hoping for the scorching July and August that I keep hearing about from the grapevine of British Weather folklore so that we can all get bouncing again!