My attention is drawn to a letter in the Times this morning. I won't link to it, simply because you won't want to pay for the privilege of reading it...
Sir,
Reading your Weekend articles about adventurous activities was very interesting. Out here in the real world, from about the age of 9 or 10, children leave for school, they come home, have a quick snack and they are out again until meal time, and then out for another hour. Local amenities include a lake (made from a gravel pit so it's deep), a playground with substantial play equipment, a free internet cafe, a couple of fields and, of course, the streets of our town. If children want to go to a club, parents are happy to take them, but if it is in our town, for example Scouts or piano lessons, they go by themselves.
We are not all keeping our children as prisoners, and perhaps that is the case outside London. By the way, since when did the Famous Five take mozzarella and prosciutto on picnics?
"And where is this idyllic, rather sensible spot?", I hear some of you ask. Needham Market, in the beautiful county of Suffolk, with a Liberal Democrat Mayor, two Liberal Democrat District councillors and a Liberal Democrat County councillor. Oh yes, and a Liberal Democrat baroness...
Read it and weep, city dwellers...
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