The Former Hero of the Play Centre…

Birthday venue StrathpineSometimes, when you’re young, you put all your hope and trust in heroes. And then you grow up and realise that everyone lets you down, even people you truly admire.

Remember Bugsy McCarrotface? He was that big, loveable rabbit in the fluffy suit who used to appear on channel 45 during children’s programming. Yeah, so, the guy who used to be inside the suit just got sent to jail for tax fraud. Bugsy was my idol when I was six. He was my everything. I wanted to BE Bugsy, or at least one of his woodland critters. Now that dream has cruelly been taken away from me.

Maybe I need to find new heroes. After all, the play centre from which they operated had more than one mascot- in fact, it was a rainbow of goodness. Ah, the old indoor play centre, Strathpine’s place of fun and laughter, where children could have a grand old time just being themselves for a bit. I remember going there quite a lot when I was younger. As in, a whole lot. Seems weird, but I think Mum just liked pushing us towards all the cool climbing frames and stuff while she sat below and took a load off for a while. Perils of having eight children, two sets of triplets and a pair of twins. That’s a lot of energy to expend, and if we’re at the play centre doing our own thing and pretending we’re a spaceship crew, Mum can have a good cup of tea and just relax for a bit. She really deserved it, so perhaps the play centre was a bit of a godsend.

So anyway, there were plenty of mascots painted on the walls. Bugsy was my favourite, but then there was always Albertina the Teddy Bear. She was sort of the team mum, so when we were pretending to be characters I was always Albertina. Ah, it’d be nice to visit the old place again, since we spent so much time there. But then, there’s probably some birthday party venues in Strathpine that’s taken its place. Things move on, people get older, cartoon rabbits get taken to jail. That’s how it is.

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