Wherever you are in the world, having a picnic can be brilliant or it can be awful. You painstakingly carry food and drink, a blanket, and a swingball set (essential) to a lush patch of grass overlooking a sparkling ocean, a rippling pasture, or your neighbour's dog emptying its bowels. Just as you've laid out the spread your knees are already aching from sitting cross-legged, you find ants in the coleslaw, a wasp stings your eyelid, and your iPhone runs out of charge, putting a premature end to your carefully selected playlist of straight up summer bangers.
Welcome to the cruel world of picnicking.