Many of you will know that before I left the UK I downloaded a selection of recipes, some from the Sainsbury’s website. I have been truly thankful for this. Especially when the internet is not working.

I wanted to make a chocolate courgette cake as we were meeting a group of doctors who would be involved in some AIDs work. This is how it went:

Wikipedia suggests that a giant tortoise moves slowly at 0.17 miles per hour. The fastest recorded speed is 5 miles per hour. There is a running track around the periphery of Bingham. As I made my way round it for the third time during a regular fitness attempt, I became convinced that the school giant tortoises are certainly of the faster variety.