1. I have Jim on my knee while he drinks his box of apple juice. It's pleasant to see my brother-in-law's expressions and features flitting across his face.
2. The others have moved on, but we spot that the chameleon, clasping a branch with its mitten hands, is eyeing a striped cricket at the top of its enclosure. We wait patiently for a few moments. POW -- the sticky tongue shoots out and the cricket is gone.
3. Scouts tonight is a night orienteering course, all around a park in Tonbridge. I've got three lads (not Alec because being in a group with your own mother is social death), all of whom are game, but not too competitive, so we alternate between jogging over the grass and ambling alongside the Medway's many channels looking for some of the checkpoints.
