I’M really missing the Olympics already and desperate for Tokyo in 4 years’ time. They’ve announced this week the sports that will be included in the next games, surfing, softball and skateboarding. They’re all going to be great, but I think they’ve missed out on a sport that we’ve all played and at some point dreaded, the bleep test. I went training with Picton West netball team this week and had to do said fitness test, running across a court, trying to get to the line before the next bleep. Usain Bolt may be the fastest man in the world, but I bet even he would struggle with the event.

Nearly the end of the holidays, are your kids all ready to go back to learn, are you chasing around collecting up the last bits of uniform or trying to get them an appointment at the hairdressers? A friend of mine is ultra-organised and has had a trial run already. She got her 13 year old out of bed, made sure that she was wearing the correct attire and walked with her to the bus stop, waved her off to school then waited for her phone to go to say she’d arrived. Of course the school wasn’t open this week, so the teenager then had to get back on the bus and come home again.

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