While I was changing the daughter’s clothes after her midday nap today, she noticed her swimming trunks in the drawer and started talking about swimming and wanting to go.

Time for diversion tactics. “Hmmm, maybe Bear would like to wear your swimming trunks? See he looks really cool in them!”

How to explain to a two year old that Hackney Council has spent 31 million pounds on a swimming pool which doesn’t actually work, and looks like it never will.

And not only that but Hackney Council have systematically run down or closed down many other swimming pools (for example London Fields Lido and Haggerston) allegedly to pay for the biggest white elephant this side of the Dome?

We had lunch instead.