This year I was luck enough to be have given Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck Cook Book for my Birthday (not the one in the big slip case). I love everything about it and as I have pretty much failed to cook any dish in any recipe book I’ve ever been given, his exacting recipes intimidate me in the slighted – I’m not going to cook those either.

On Thursday I was in Walkwood Middle School, Redditch chewing on a particularly gristly problem. What do do with 180 Year 6 pupils on four afternoons and a Friday during the SATS exams? The images I couldn’t get out of my head were edible boiled sweet wrappers drying on petri-dishes, huge toffee/sugar structures and a hog roast.

Who knows what will happen…