Child free moment

We went to London yesterday for Stef's birthday picnic in Hyde Park. Great weather for it as you can imagine, it was really issing it down until just after we set up camp in the union bar at Imperial. Then the sun came out allowing us to decamp, do the photo on the steps of the Albert Hall (tradition) and get a couple of hours intermittent sun in a very windy Hyde park. The pollen count must have gone through the roof, even I could feel it. Leon was mostly contented, especially with the journey into London and a late lunch time. He lost his sense of humour about 4pm and I couldn't work out what I could do to console him, tried nappy, teething gel, food, drink, cuddles, and so on. In the end we gave up, put him in the pram and left by about 5pm. He was asleep by the time we were out of the park. He had his tea in the O2 centre carpark on Finchley Road and slept just about until we got to Soham, the last 5 miles we sung Old Mcdonald and any other nursery rhymes we could think of which worked until we were home.
I felt really vunerable in London, we had so much stuff with us, both for Leon and picnic stuff, it wasn't too bad but I do get worried Leon's eating enough on day trips, he gets so destracted, it's impossible to breast feed him, far too much going on unless I find a quiet spot.
This was the first weekend where we did long days out with food for Leon. His routine took a bashing both meal times and sleep times, I wanted to see how we all coped and what things I can do with the absence of the usual daily routine. Rusks (organix, not Farleys) are good to keep him happy, so long as I keep an eye on him as he could choke. At the end of the day, when he's had enough, he's had enough and the best thing is to get him home. We must have been there all of 4 hours.