To make the kids walk 3miles to school?

What time do schools finish where you live?

Its an hours walk max. If they come out at 3pm, they'll be home by 4.15pm even with faffing. It'll only be twilight for December and they aren't little kids.

It depends on their general level of maturity really.

Thanks very much for the information. Not originally from this area so always keen to learn.

Middle Farm is local to us and DH likes to be there for 9:30, otherwise it's heaving. They have a good selection of locally grown produce and their scones are to die for. Being the National Cider Centre keeps DH happy and the freshly pressed apple juice is a hit with me.

We have been going to the Christmas Tree farm for about 10 years now Not been disappointed yet.

Hope the roadworks don't take too long, there was an article on the local news about it at lunch time today.

Edited as I hadn't said thank you

Hence me saying “half the week”

the op apparently does come back from London for lunch break

I use my ‘lunch hour’ every day

I’d drive mine without a second thought.

Is walking 3 miles really going to be quicker? It’s going to be about the same time surely so you might as well be truthful and say it’s “insane” as you can’t be bothered sitting in traffic that long.

it is what it is & if your husband thinks they need picked up then he should do that so they are only walking in the morning and not 6 miles a day / 30 miles a week for a month

It takes you 15 mins to walk 3 miles @LandSharksAnonymous ?

* I walk an hour as part of my commute (15 minutes to the station, then from the station to the office and then repeat to go home)*

I feel that this walk is ok in nice weather, but twice a day in all weathers into winter is harsh. This would not be fun in the dark and driving rain, carrying school books. Can't you do the suggestion of leaving your car on the other sides of the roadworks on the 3 days a week when you commute into London? Or rideshare with other families? I would be looking into alternatives to supplement the walk.

Bikes - yes fine.
Walking - no it’s too far.

OP already said she doesn’t go into the office every day. You really are being a bit difficult aren’t you?

You’re a rather unpleasant person

me because I use my ‘lunch hour’ every day to visit my elderly parents

so for half the week, you walk 4 miles to a station, arrive in London, walk 3 miles to your office. At 1pm you walk 3 miles back to your station, arrive in battle and walk 4 miles back to see your parents, then you wave goodbye and head back in to London?

3 miles then 3 miles. So six miles either side.

Because I like walking and it’s good exercise. And unlike the vast majority of people on this thread, I don’t think a six mile walk is hard. It’s also a lot cheaper to do it that way.

The OP also never said she walked past battle. She said she doesn’t get on the train there. Even one stop closer to London the train tickets can be significant cheaper, so that’s also a logical reason for driving and then road parking near a different station.

OP is right. Isn’t she? You’re just a bit difficult.

Agreed.

The op walks past battle, being 0.5 miles from her front door, and carries on along country lanes and roads for another 3.5 miles

Can they cycle? Or walk one way and get lifts the other? Can you lift share with anyone locally?

No where even close to the distances the op is doing.

LB to CC is nothing!

Is it really any of your business how someone else chooses to do a journey?!

so you walk 4 miles to hildenborough
arrive in London
walk 3 miles to your office?

Yup electric bikes would be the obvious and long-term solution for me. It's how DH and I commute to work and it's how I'd expect secondary age children to get to school if it was too far to walk.

They are 12 and 13

They can bike it at those ages.

Yeah I always thought my primary school, which wasn't the nearest, was about mile away. It use to take about 20 minutes as a young kid. I now have google maps and have discovered it was only 0.7 miles from my house. As an adult, I actually think it was a lovely walk but as a child, I just thought if was long!

I do. 😂

My closest station is Tonbridge but I get on the train at Hildenborough. Better walk, more chance to get a seat on the train. Cheaper parking when I do drive. And I walk at the other end more as well, as I get off at London Bridge rather than Charring Cross. Shocking though it might be to you, some people like exercise and aren’t lazy

Why on earth wouldn't you go to your nearest station unless I am missing something.. Maybe porkies being told here. 🐖

This

The valid reason would normally be to go to a station that's better for where your office is located. But if you get into Charing Cross (from Battle) you can walk to basically all of central London in three miles so I can't think how your journey works at all.