I don’t often blog about my kids, but my eldest is ten-years-old (in Year 6) and was lucky enough to get a place on an oil painting course that her school was running today. She trogged off perfectly happily and we were expecting a few daubs of paint on a canvas to coo all over and hang with the rest of our children’s art work on the kitchen cupboards.

Imagine my surprise when I went to collect her and found that she’d painted this: