1. Luckily for me, there's a slice of beetroot cake at teatime.
2. This is a big old video call: watching the number of screens increasing as the start-time draws near, and spotting familiar names and a few (a very few) familiar faces.
3. In the kitchen, Alec is baking biscuits for food tech; Bettany is drawing flowers for art. I'm just there to drink my soda-and-bitters and answer questions about separating eggs and crayon colours.
