Agreed. I've seen a couple of things with video games experts saying that it's the one thing they won't let their kids anywhere near.

There was certainly a time when I could recite Each Peach Pear Plum by heart.

This feels like a very specific thing for Duolingo to talk about! Better though than when it tried to teach me the sentence 'the men write in sugar' in Italian, which, funnily enough, I have never had cause to use (in Italian or any other language).

I was helping at parkrun recently and one of our volunteers dropped her phone while setting up the course. While she was off looking for it, a teenage boy approached us to hand it in, having picked it up somewhere in the park. The kids are alright.

Yes, my son goes to lessons outside of school but I understand that that's relatively unusual in our community and many kids don't get a chance to learn until they have lessons at school. Also, it's hard to get into lessons - we really struggled to find availability.

I don't know anything about the mechanics of it but there are several companies that offer installation of a temporary pool and instructors etc. It's obviously not as big as a 25m pool - I think they're typically 10m long. 'Pop up' was maybe not completely accurate.

Our school is looking at installing a pop-up pool for a term or so which would allow daily lessons and smaller groups to learn and possibly other year groups to have lessons. Hopefully we'll see an improvement. 3/3

Again, not sure if it's standard but rates of kids actually being able to swim 25m are not great, possibly because not enough lessons, short lessons, 30 kids trying to learn at once etc. And schools typically don't have pools so there's a round trip to a local leisure centre. 2/3

I'm not 'in education' but I'm the chair of governors at my son's school. Yes, it is in the curriculum, kids are supposed to be able to swim 25m by the time they leave primary. Not sure if it's standard but at our school year 4s go to lessons weekly for 1.5 terms (2 classes, 1.5 terms per class) 1/3

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Oh for goodness sake. Likewise, there is a fire station very near our house (basically at the end of the road) and I find it quite comforting that they might be able to come quite quickly if we ever need them!

I'm reading the book at the moment - highly recommend. Somewhat bizarrely, Irish history was a significant part of the NZ history curriculum in the 90s.

So good! These were with pork mince as per recipe in Modern Pressure Cooking. Any tips for a veggie version? Am thinking mushroom?