Spinning Machine

Have you ever gone spinning round and round
till the ceiling looks just like the ground
and the ground looks kinda like the walls
and you're caught in a whirlwind where everything falls.
Up and down, topsy turvy, like some crazy ride
so you're feeling all funny and tickly inside
and you want it to end, but in some way you don't
then your mum says that you'd better stop, but you don't.

Well that's just what happens to me all the time
I'm a spinning machine and I'm right in my prime.
If you never spin, try it. You'll like how it feels.
Just make sure you don't do it too soon after meals!

by Susan Noyes Anderson.

I remember as a child feeling sorry for my Mum whenever we went to the park as she was missing out on so much fun by not joining in with all the spinning and swinging, etc.

Now I am the Mum, and I realise that there is just as much joy to be had in watching your child having fun

And remembering your own childhood.