Mazel Tov

Like real Madrid, albeit without state support, Nancy has completed a historic treble. For AC third year running, despite her competitors making be strides, Nancy won a prize at the cake bake off. Best topical cake  - featuring a menorah proclaiming the start of Hanukkah! In this world of falsehood and nonsense some who occupy the darkest recesses of the web might see as yet more evidence of a global Jewish conspiracy. To those I say 'nob off pokey' - this was a triumph of baking and my own GCSE art skills.

Beyond dominating cake, Nancy has discovered chess with a passion and has started discussing with the merit of the Sicilian opening over dinner and the application of Zermelo's theorem to the game. Which is lovely. Her chess teacher also told a child to shut up which made me want to sprays applaud him all the more.

More broadly she veers from  deep loveliness to gobby arse but such are the travails of a 7 1/2 year old child. Happily, she is besotted her teacher and seems to be something of a sponge. Last week on finding herself unable to sleep she came downstairs and set herself maths puzzles. That's normal right?

Yes that's what I thought.

Here you go....