Week 426: Youth hostel

November! The kids spent the week away with their grandparents and their 3 year old Mandarin speaking cousin. They returned with key phrases in Mandarin that any 6 year-old should know - dinosaur, elephant, bottom, Granny [father’s mother], Grandad [father’s father]. On Wednesday I went out for cocktails with Rowan in Soho. It was very good to catch up, but the venue I picked was too loud… or… am I old? Lachie and I took two days off and walked the 50km from Eastbourne to Brighton over the South Downs way. We stayed in a youth hostel - the “youth” part is presumably aspirational - at about 30km in. Every time I walk up something big and then look at something far away I think “everyone should really be forced to walk up something big and look at something far away”. Outside is what? FREE!. I will say that walking that far over two days wasn’t hard but it was extremely painful. My feet were wrecked by the end of it. Lachie and I had time to talk about many things over the two days and…