ENJOYING FAMILY FUN AT HOME, BBC NEWSREADER KATE SILVERTON ON CREATING JOYFUL MEMORIES AND LOOKING AFTER CHILDREN’S HAPPINESS AND WELLBEING IN LOCKDOWN
‘We’re trying to create memories that are good as opposed to bad’
Kate Silverton is feeling a little tired on the morning we speak to her. The night before, the broadcaster and journalist had turned her small back garden in London into a wild camp, hanging out bunting, throwing down blow-up mattresses and stringing up a hammock.
She and her husband Mike Heron and their children Clemency, eight, and Wilbur, five, ate chocolate-spread sandwiches and slept soundly under the bright stars until the dawn chorus woke them up.
“We’re trying to create memories of lockdown that are good as opposed to bad,” says Kate, stifling a yawn. “And the camping was amazing. I did a lot of travelling and backpacking when I was a teenager, so that’s my happy place. It reminded
