Digested week: Olympic poolside parenting, cracked water slides and fishy memories

Tom Daley's husband, Dustin Lance Black, holds their youngest son, Phoenix, while their other son, Robbie, watches on during the Olympics diving 10m synchronised event. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Monday

How long into the opening ceremony did you last? I got as far as the living statues of famous feminists rising out of the Seine before getting up and drifting away. There was entertainment value in watching the caravan of shivering, poncho-clad athletes being conveyed down the river in the rain. And the phrase, delivered deadpan by a BBC commentator: “There’s Andy Murray on a barge”, was a keeper. But for the most part France’s whimsical reinvention of the Olympic opening ceremony was as flat as a crepe.