I have been staying with Kathy,Dan and their children in their beautiful and creatively messy Georgian house in Islington. This is a wonderfully warm place to be, full of laughter and life. Kathy and Dan have been very inventive, energetic and successful in thinking up schemes for getting their three children into good London schools on scholarships. This means that Aeofa has to play the bassoon, having been given a rare scholarship at a posh school only available for bassoon playing girls! She does this quite cheerfully as you can see in this picture, while her older brother Oisin is making delicious biscuits.