Bloody rain and holidays

[Roy Cropper]

 Another shite summer almost at an end . Since crap summers seem to be the norm now (was always sunny during the summer holidays when I was a kid) aint it time the kids holidays were cut short by a couple of weeks and added on somewhere else during the year ?
50 mm of rain forecast here for to day ..... again   Still if we get flooded out who cares  cosPakistan will bail us out . Wont they ? Or some other rich muslim country ? .......No thought not Bastards !!

[Snoopy]

To be serious I would favour a four term school year rather than the present 3 terms. This would shorten the loooooooong summer holdiay, give more frequent holidays and get rid once and for all of the excessive charges of going on holiday during the so called "Peak Season" of July and August. Of course the something and nothing half terms would be cut and included into the extra holiday created. As added benefits, particularly to those of us who live in holiday destinations, income would be more evenly spread throughout the year, traffic flow would be more equally spread over the months and such a move would end the arguments about taking the kids out of school during term time as it is the only time some parents can get holidays from work. Not that this latter really applies to me since both boys are home educated.

There is a fair chance the weather might be better during some of the holiday periods too.

[Pastis]

Although August has turned into a damp squib June and July were beauties round these parts. In fact it's only in the last couple of weeks that the grass in the park has returned to a lush green from scorched brown. School hols, well yes, that does make sense.

[Miss Demeanour]

When considering going on holiday it's funny but the UK just doesn't come into my thoughts...and yes I do know there are some lovely parts and would consider these as weekend treats but for 2 weeks - not a chance 

[Uncle Mort]

Too true ~ the weather's not reliable enough.

When the sprogs were ankle biters we'd spend holidays in the UK but once they were a few years old and we were sure they'd behave on planes we've always gone abroad. They're on their third passports already!

[Barman]

When I was a kid my Dad could only get the last week in August and the first week in September for his holidays each year...

My memories of childhood holidays was sitting in a caravan, rain beating down on the roof and playing Ludo/Monopoly, etc. 

[Pastis]

When I was a kid my Dad could only get the last week in August and the first week in September for his holidays each year...

My memories of childhood holidays was sitting in a caravan, rain beating down on the roof and playing Ludo/Monopoly, etc. 

Spooky!    I've just this minute sent an email to a friend describing childhood holidays in August, in a caravan ... dress code was wellington boots, swimming trunks and a golf umbrella! 

[Barman]

When I was a kid my Dad could only get the last week in August and the first week in September for his holidays each year...

My memories of childhood holidays was sitting in a caravan, rain beating down on the roof and playing Ludo/Monopoly, etc. 

Spooky!    I've just this minute sent an email to a friend describing childhood holidays in August, in a caravan ... dress code was wellington boots, swimming trunks and a golf umbrella! 

 

I also remember collecting the water in a big, plastic holder thing... and coin-in-the-meter shower blocks....

[tel]

I remember flying kites at Winchelsea. Well being dragged along by one anyway.

[Pastis]

When I was a kid my Dad could only get the last week in August and the first week in September for his holidays each year...

My memories of childhood holidays was sitting in a caravan, rain beating down on the roof and playing Ludo/Monopoly, etc. 

Spooky!    I've just this minute sent an email to a friend describing childhood holidays in August, in a caravan ... dress code was wellington boots, swimming trunks and a golf umbrella! 

 

I also remember collecting the water in a big, plastic holder thing... and coin-in-the-meter shower blocks....

Coin-in-the-meter shower blocks  

Bloody luxury!  My Dad fixed a sprinkler rose to a hose and hoisted it on't van roof  

[Snoopy]

When I was a kid my Dad could only get the last week in August and the first week in September for his holidays each year...

My memories of childhood holidays was sitting in a caravan, rain beating down on the roof and playing Ludo/Monopoly, etc. 

Spooky!    I've just this minute sent an email to a friend describing childhood holidays in August, in a caravan ... dress code was wellington boots, swimming trunks and a golf umbrella! 

 

I also remember collecting the water in a big, plastic holder thing... and coin-in-the-meter shower blocks....

Coin-in-the-meter shower blocks  

Bloody luxury!  My Dad fixed a sprinkler rose to a hose and hoisted it on't van roof  

We were given a 1 inch cube of carbolic soap and told to wash in t'puddle once rain 'ad stopped. There were 17 of us young 'uns round that theer puddle and when littlest had finished wi' soap me mother would use it to do week's washing for pit owner's family.

And if you told today's young 'uns they'd not believe a word on it.

[Pastis]

Aye, too true. In fact I didn't believe a word of it 

Fortunately me Dad then made a fookin' fortune and we all went on continental holidays in 5***** hotels 

[Snoopy]

By 'eck ~ That tacks me back ...me Dad used to say a prayer to Cecil Moores every Saturday neet ...... not that we ever won owt but Dad were certain that one day Horace Batchelor would get it reet.

[Pastis]

Ahhh, Keynsham. That's K,  E,  Y,  N,  S,  H,  A,  M,   Keynsham, Bristol. 

[tel]

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