The Holiday...

This has to be the strangest holiday I have done for a while. Any booking made with a company called Single With Kids is going to be an adventure. We set off very early on Saturday morning driving to Dover, ferrying to Calais and then driving to Normandy. The French drive had been my biggest fear but, dare I say it, the English could learn alot from the French with regard to motorways!

Eleven hours later and with great trepidation, we arrived at what I can only describe as a French upmarket Butlins. It was on the last leg of the journey that it dawned upon me what I had probably signed up for - I was going to be sharing a living space with other families. Me, who likes space, order and tidiness, sharing with potentially a family or two with ADHD children who eat crisps for breakfast and play DS until 3 o'clock in the morning. Ok...so that was the worst possible outcome dominating my imagination.

As it turned out, I am sharing with one family who are really nice, even though the mum clearly needs a holiday alone for a month! In fact, all the families are lovely and incredibly diverse and yet another adventure has been had this Summer. The children play all day while I indulge myself in even more reflection while basking in the sun with my ipod on - I'd say that was a holiday. We've all been eating together in the garden each evening and it certainly beats the isolation felt at holidaying alone with the children, observing cornflake packet families in their little clusters - the women keeping a beady eye on their balding husband for fear that he may stray (well I've news for you ladies....I don't do flabby and bald anyway!) and the men looking irritated any time they are asked to 'put the chair up', 'wipe Johnnys bottom' or 'get some more drinks please love?'.

Well, the sun lounger is calling so for now I am 'Single Mother On The Verge' of what? Of relaxation!!