[Sundae]

We camped for our holidays for years when I was a child. I look back on it and wonder how on earth it was a holiday for Mum! But then things we had to be nagged to do at home, we fell over ourselves to do when camping.

We always camped on sites, so it was hardly rugged outdoor stuff, but we had to fetch water from the standpipes and shower in the camp blocks, so it felt exciting to us as kids. We had a camping stove, and plastic bowls and plates, so everything tasted different too.

It would invariably rain (British summer) so it was just as well we had a big family tent, where we could all sit in folding chairs and read or do word puzzles or whatever the fad was at the time.

As we got older, Mum & Dad could afford more expensive campsites with things like gift shops, amusement arcades (slot machines) a swimming pool and a laundry. For us though, it was still about sleeping under canvas, wearing thermal pyjamas and hearing the rain drum on the tent roof.