With the new school term begun, as I make my way to work I now come across travelling in the opposite direction, two or three mums, driving their pushchairs as if they are lashed together, with a gaggle of uniformed little kids bustling around the central blockwith scant consideration for the world that is around them. With no pavement space to manouevre around, I feel like I'm in a real-life version of the Donkey Kong arcade game, with these approaching flotillas needing to be leaped over as they barrel along. Usually, this occurs once or twice as I walk up Napier and then Nelson Road. I've taken to trying to leave earlier to avoid them. Those easy summer months...