Family HolidaysBack in the 80s when my Dad got made redundant (hello Dad!), he spent all the redundancy money on one of those big motor caravans.
Us kids loved it, apart from when my sister threw up on my sleeping bag, but looking back I'm not so sure my mum did. There was a certain tension every time the big van was even mentioned, let alone driven around France for weeks on end with her still having to cook and do all the washing.
What went wrong, what went right, and how did you survive the shame of having your family with you as a teenager?
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chthonic, Thu 2 Aug 2007, 14:33)
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Reggie Perrin, Anyone?There's an episode of the comedy "The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin" where Reggie and family are sitting in a car in the rain at the seaside, getting on each other's nerves.
It was filmed in Charmouth.
I know, because the exact same fate befell our family holiday to Charmouth in 1977, one year after the drought. This was the year it all came back down again.
This was the year my sister and I spent a whole fortnight in the back seat of a Ford Cortina mk IV, watching the rain and trying to stop Lassie the Whippet from sneaking a crafty lick of our ice-creams when we weren't looking.
Occasionally we went to Lyme Regis, for a change of view.
If we weren't in the back of the Ford, we were in the caravan, staring out at the rain. This bit resembled an episode of "Father Ted", only without the catholicism.
Which was a pity, as it would have livened up things no end.
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Stevedix http://www.stevedix.de/blog, Mon 6 Aug 2007, 15:44,
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