Imogen Achara says it will probably keep tapering and that I should stop keeping count, which is excellent advice that I have not taken.

The second thing is that I changed a training.

Our state association runs a session for new reporters and I have taught part of it for six years.

It is about accuracy and it is about the machine and it is, to be honest, about how to stay awake.

In 2024 I added eleven minutes to it and the eleven minutes have nothing to do with reporting.

I stand up in front of about forty people who have just qualified and I tell them that they are about to spend their careers producing the most reliable document in any room they enter, and that this is going to make them arrogant about memory, and that it made me arrogant for sixteen years.