We’re gathered in the public library on level two around the board table. We have to meet on neutral ground, ‘cause Corey’s boys have been talking about moving out of the mall and not being part of the Kmart Kids anymore. We have to try and hold the group together. Our tribunal is addressing three issues today. It’s all on the agenda that I’ve had the younglings copy out perfectly. Writing the agenda over and over was a good excuse to practise their handwriting, seeing as their school lessons have been out of order recently. Yesterday my history seminar segued from Boudica the Celtic warrior queen (who the kids loved, and couldn’t get enough of, and said was just like me, a Battle-Mama), to the liberation of women in the Middle East to Ada Lovelace to Shockley and the history of transisto

