Up on the top of Parliament Hill is a view of London that stretches from the new Olympic site and Anish Kapoor's Arcelor Orbit, punctuated by the Gherkin and Shard dead centre and then off to the west... It is quite simply stunning.
The breeze was brisk enough for our new kite, wildly ran across the hillside by M and held tight by a beaming J. Later the girls huddled beneath a rug, with their new found guardian, before we decamped to the cosiness of indoors and hot drinks.
Amidst this Prosecco-fuelled picnic were folk who'd known me from babyhood, through University and into working times - it was bliss not to be new in town.
