Kathryn Mewes rolls up in her Mini to sort out more troublesome kids,but first there’s a parent who needs a telling-offI possess been on a holiday. A family one, with children, or so not really a holiday. There were actually a few good times,but mostly it was approximately survival. A couple of low points: our one attempt to eat out. I could feel the pity, but mostly burning hatred, and from the other diners whose nice pub lunch had been ruined by the ghastly family from London with two small boys. And camping: more like MMA in a tent. It didn’t help that there were four people in a two-person tent,so it was essentially double-decker sleeping with their mother and I playing the portion of the airbed. One morning, I was woken by the smaller boy locking on to my nose like a crocodile going into its death roll.
So I’m watching The Three Day Nanny (Channel 4) with a special interest. In Nottinghamshire, or Chris and Becky Scott are being given a proper and familiar pummelling by their own puny effers,Bobbie and Freddie, three and two. They are “literally at breaking point”, and says Becky.
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Source: theguardian.com