Being a parent is amazing, but it’s also hard work and relentless. And if your kids are fed, (relatively clean) and happy, then you have done well. Pat yourself on the back — you deserve it.
Camping. It brings conflict into our household.
It just seems a lot of work - all the time. The packing, the arguing…then the unpacking, reading numerous instructions, followed by more arguing.
Dulwich Park, Peckham Rye, Ruskin Park, Myatts, Mayow, Goose Green, Crystal Palace Park, Burgess Park, Brockwell Park, Hilly Fields, Kelsey Park, Blythe Hill and Ladywell. There are more of course, but these are the ones I have been to. Why so many I hear you ask? Two reasons:
It’s official. There are 100s of things to do with your family in SE London.
Really. Trust me.
And I hope to tell you about lots of them — or at least about the ones I know of. But this post is a little more personal. This one is about the places that I leaned on when I was too tired to think, too exhausted to try something new or just a little too hung over to cope with other people’s kids.