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Rock-climbing, skydiving, abseiling – these are risky ways of getting from A to B. Taking a walk is not.
So, I wasn't pondering the fragility of existence when I forayed with my son, Ted, into Abbot's Wood, a forest near where the South Downs meet the sea.
When we set out, walking on a pavement beside a dual carriageway for a hundred yards, a BMW skidded on the wet