It is a bit like that isn't it? They put something that looks like those little galloping horse rides you see outside supermarkets, where you stick the kid on the saddle, drop in a 20p coin and away they go. Why put something so blatantly attractive to small eyes, so very fun to look at, if it's not to be used in any way? Kids don't give two hoots about aesthetics ;-)

I remember my neighbour last year in summer. I was in the garden cutting some pine wood for a project and from the other side of the fence I could hear her say to her young children: "You can go in the paddling pool, but no splashing!" I'm just standing there, muttering under my breath: "Good luck with that!" :-D