THE kids are getting up early these days. Well, early enough. Breakfast at 8.30am, that’s the rule. 9.00am at the latest. You can’t be lying in bed all day.

They walk the dog at 10.00am, just a short walk, just around the locality and keeping their distance from everybody, if they meet anybody. Everybody else is keeping away from everybody else too, so it’s not difficult. Just to stretch their legs, all 12 legs.