Our day started normally enough, if waking up in a posh Cheshire hotel when you think you should be in France can ever be called normal. Louise woke at 6.30 which is very normal for her, Jo would sleep til lunchtime if left alone. Went down to breakfast at 8am and while the three of us set about a hearty British plateful, David turned green and disappeared at speed. "What's the matter with Daddy?" was answered with my 'mustn't worry the children' voice that didn't even fool the 17 month old Joanna - "I expect he's forgotten something, Darling, now eat up nicely."
Phoned my Dad - he'd had a nice holiday, forget where. Phoned Mum - she's got a cold worrying about us taking the children to furrin parts. Phoned the garage - he said "What do you want, miracles? Phone back at 2pm" Didn't know what to do with ourselves, stuck in deep countryside, no transport, father ill and kids expecting a bucket and spade experience as promised. I remembered that some friends of ours lived somewhere in the vicinity and rang them, (thank goodness for pay phones, no mobiles back then). They came and took us back to their very nice house whereupon David retired to bed for the day. His sickness continued all day, poor thing. The rest of us ditched being F Nightingale wanabees and took all the kids to a pub, which seemed the right thing to do under the circumstances. He was no better when we wove our way back, so we called a quack who said it was a bug and he could travel on tomorrow.
The car being ready mine host drove me out to get it and thought he would have to call a doctor to me when I saw the price of the repair. That cost, coupled with the hotel and the meal, (so nice, so sick, so quick) was more than the total cost of the holiday budget. Maybe we should have turned round then and headed for home, the writing was on the wall for all but the most myopic. Our hospitable friends fed us well and the kids went to bed happy and tired having had a strange but entertaining day. I went to the pub and left the invalid to babysit - it's an ill wind ...
Expenses £
Holly Lodge Hotel 33.97
Car repairs 70.60
Pub spends 2.00
phone calls 0.46
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