Today I took the kids to Ditchling Beacon, from where we strolled a mile or so east, as far as a pond that's so circular it's kind of scary. We were accompanied by Simon and three year-old Matilda, who bore up pretty well until ten minutes from the end of the walk, when she decided she'd had enough. Ah, the joys of parenthood...even other people's parenthood.
It's easy to take for granted the extraordinary view there is from the Beacon - I cycle past it regularly during the summer months and rarely pause to take it in properly, but when you're with small kids the pace is irresistibly slow, which is often deeply frustrating, but when you have such breath-taking scenery to take in it seems churlish to complain about anything.
Eventually we made it back to the car, which we then drove to the Jack & Jill pub in Clayton for beer and peanuts. Simple pleasures...
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