Re: Will's holiday

In message <60tg12ds1ujm6mnk5bl0sp0fgmrd75f93p@xxxxxxx>, Nick Atty <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

That's true for any travels with children, not just by plane. How did our
parents manage when they had to go everywhere by public transport, lugging
the shopping as well as pushing the pram and dragging a toddler?

I don't know. I'll ask my wife.

:-) I push a pram and drag a 4-and-a-half year-old who claims her legs hurt. Low floor buses are getting more common but you sometimes have to wait a long time for one and if I've only got the 18 month-old, I'd rather walk with the pushchair (much to the consternation of everyone else in his baby music group who decided I couldn't possibly be allowed to walk 35 minutes each way to get there and started trying to organise me complicated lifts involving car seats which I'm trying to politely decline).

Actually, of course, I do one largish supermarket shop a week on the way
home from work in the car. But the rest is still done like that in
this household. There isn't any alternative.

I do a lot of bits and bobs shopping in local shops on my travels and husband often seems to end up in a supermarket looking for lunch and will phone and ask if we need anything but we still end up doing a big supermarket shop on Saturdays, which seems to take over the entire day. This is partly because husband is chef (I am laundry) and likes to spend a leisurely Saturday morning looking through recipe books and working out a menu and then I grab his list and add all the things like washing up liquid and bin bags and ingredients for daughter's packed lunch and something for me and son to eat for lunch in the week and then he usually goes and gets it all, taking at least one child with him.

I do think seeing as one or both of us goes into a shop nearly every day, we ought not to spend all Saturday shopping as well but we don't seem able to organise it like that.
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Kate Lambert
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