Those first few years of your child's life, you take a pushchair everywhere, and it starts to seem impossible that they'll ever walk more than six steps, at any pace faster than a snail's crawl, in any direction resembling the one you wish to go in. You look longingly at little paths snaking through woodland or striking up through grassy fields, and stick solidly to flat tarmac surfaces instead. And then, quite suddenly and unexpectedly, they become mobile! You throw caution to the wind and venture out without a pushchair , and you don't end up carrying toddler and all his stuff for three-quarters of the journey. Life has new and exciting horizons! Of course it helps if you still don't expect to get too far, and you have somewhere interesting to go. A recent walk near the local village of Ticknall had pretty much everything a kid could want - and adults too! We parked in the village car park, set off and promptly bumped into an old tramway, complete...
Getting through life one cake at a time.