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For a family in Merton the thing to plan around is the scale of Wimbledon Common rather than its scenery. On big open ground the instinct is to walk to the best spot, and with a pram, a toddler and a grandparent in the party that walk becomes the session. Small children spend their patience getting somewhere rather than being somewhere, so the good ground you can reach beats the better ground you cannot. That single decision also settles the pram, the folding chair and anybody who needs sure footing, because unpaved common ground stays soft for days after heavy rain while a made-up path does not. The other half of it is knowing when not to be outside at all. A newborn, a February wind or a week of rain are all reasons to move indoors, where nothing depends on the sky and a baby can be warm. Very small children usually photograph better on a familiar carpet than in a famous view, and there is no prize for suffering. Outdoors, the useful thing to understand is that children stop performing once the camera has become boring. The first ten minutes give you the tidy pictures, everybody upright and looking the right way, and the twenty after that give you the ones families actually keep, when the toddler has found a stick and nobody is thinking about us any more. Both are worth having, and they only ever arrive in that order, which is why we never start with the fun and hope for the formal.