"looks like you, dad"

...quoth the offspring who had just stiffed me for a giant hot chocolate and an ice cream. School holibags today so a morning of chores then trying to keep the little monkeys amused in the afternoon. Seemed to work out ok since they both wanted to go to the same place for once!

I don't remember having all these extra days holiday when I was their age. It seemed to be unremitting gloom from beginning to end of each term .