I’m lucky that my partner Duncan is the early riser in our family. Every Saturday he’s up at 6am to take our dogs, Goldilocks and Baby Dinosaur, for a walk. Once he’s back, he’ll make us tea and pancakes (he’s an artist now but used to be a chef, so food is a big part of family life) and we’ll get the girls ready for stage school, which they both absolutely love.
One of our favourite things to do as a family is foraging – anything from elderflower and blackberries to apples. Around this time there’s plenty of wild garlic about, so every Saturday morning we’ll pile into the car and head to Sharsted Wood, an ancient woodland towards Sittingbourne. I was given the coordinates by somebody once – we’d never have discovered it otherwise.
