I think they must have realised that they shortchanged us yesterday. DD sent a text today to say that GS had been instructed that he was to spend some time after we brought him home from school, doing something un-homework related with DH and I, so we spent forty minutes playing a game and then, as he had been invited to his friend's house to play, I let him go out. He'd fulfilled his part of the bargain with good grace! He will, as we speak, be doing his homework - also with good grace I hope.
Last weekend, in Rutland, the first statue in Britain of the late Elizabeth II was unveiled.