Are we NEARLY THERE yet?
It’s time to prepare for the glorious annual moment: setting off on the summer holiday. Garden watered, fridge emptied, doors and windows locked, neighbours alerted to your forthcoming absence, car loaded, strongest-willed family member sitting in the front, everyone else squeezed dutifully into the back, youngest in the middle not daring to complain, father switching on the ignition – and off you go.
Spot the differences, however, between setting off on a summer holiday today and 40 years ago. No roof rack, for a start. Those madly flapping polythene covers on other people’s roof racks used to be one of the most amusing sights of
