Do you always keep your phone on the latest OS? Do you tend to play the alpha releases? Have you only just moved to streaming TV services? Where do you sit on the curve of innovation adoption in medical practice? We chat about this (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/4/401.2) before launching into a discussion of how single parents fare compared to couples in the world of child adoption (read more here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/4/401.1). We stay off the track of medicinal products and devices with a report on the best ways to deal with heatstroke… Summer might come at some point… in our second report (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/4/405).