Rachel, Owen and Kathryn

Katy has already started correcting the television. "It's IN the park, not ON the park".

Carrying Katy in the lift at the art gallery today, she declares: You are the love of my life!

Car journeys - even short ones - usually require Katy to be provided with a certain amount of distraction and entertainment. "I spy" is always fun, and has the hidden educational agenda of supporting the identification of different phonemes. Since the clocks went back last month our journey home from nursery has suddenly become eerily different, with a different range of things to spy. "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with D. I'll give you a clue: it covers the sky at night." Ooh, er, is it ... Darkness? "Yes, darkness, well done Mum!"