The Up Park

We are fortunate to have several parks in our town two of which are within spitting distance of the school (although that is discouraged of course); the one we walk through before 9 and after 3, and a smaller one, affectionately known by my two as The Up Park.

We don't often visit the up park after school, mainly because it is up the way, and we are usually heading down the way, but the middle boy is always pestering us to go since it is where his classmates are after school and so occasionally I oblige.

Today, in the warmth of the unexpected sunshine the older boys played with loads of their pals, I sat on the grass and chatted with friends, the littlest lay in his pram and snoooooozed and the fresh green leaves on the beech trees swayed in the wind.