I shall write in full about the latest holiday with the children and Best Friend and Talented Art Director With Monkey Arms. For the moment, just let me record that it was the most brilliant fun, and that the children seemed to love every second of it: I had been slightly nervous of a week [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Holiday’
Holiday – Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Family, Holiday, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Packing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, Holiday, Ickworth, Packing, Wife on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A long time ago, in our pre-family days, when both Wife and I were working in advertising, she was due to get up early (4.30 a.m. early) for a shoot in Ibiza. The trouble was, the night before, she went out with her best friend: Sarcastic Six Footer. Sarcastic Six Footer is not only Wife’s [...]
Le Camping
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Camping, Family, Holiday on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are a few things that are bound to strike terror into any right-thinking mind: workshop, feminist physical theatre collective, Richard Littlejohn – and camping. All of these are things which I have viewed with a combination of suspicion and terror for a while now, but I am now ready to reassess one of them [...]
Holiday Interruptus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family, Holiday, Shark, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 28th July 2007 The car journey to Newhaven should take 1 hour and 40 minutes. This morning, it took Wife (with Youngest Son and Daughter) over three hours: so they missed their boat. And there’s one boat a day. Daughter’s commentary on this state of affairs was trenchant and uncompromising. She threw up and [...]
Pirate vs. Yoda vs. Batman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Holiday on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday, 31st July 2007 Not one of those drinking games played by medical students: rather it is Eldest Son’s traveling outfit quandary. I have lobbied hard for Pirate, having found out that ONLY LAST WEEK included the venerable occasion of “Talk Like A Pirate For A Day”, and we both agreed that the head to [...]
The Welcome
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family, Holiday, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 17th August 2007 It is rumoured that there are certain states under which adults are “really themselves” – whether it be at the rolling pitch of an argument, or in vino veritas. I don’t know if this is definitely the case, but I can attest to the fact that children are entirely true to [...]
France
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family, Holiday on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 17th August 2007 1) Wine: magnificent. Much St.Emilion consumed, preceded by Kir Royale – every night. 2) Food: not all that great. While I think that it is true that the common standard of restaurant food is higher across France than it is in the UK, the standard of food available in supermarkets is [...]
Quaint, As A Child Sees It
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cornwall, Eldest Son, Family, Holiday, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 12th April 2008 We’ve just returned from a magnificent week’s holiday. The weather was absolutely perfect, and most of the days were spent outside, with the children exploring the caves and playing on the beach, and at night, we made a huge fire and watched old films (Wife has an almost pathological dislike of [...]
