Ferry cross the Channel? Non merci.
He's only been back from a week's holiday a couple of days and the eldest is off again, this time to the landing beaches of Normandy on a five day French trip.
"But Nick, you're dropping French for Italian," I moaned as I contemplated what I could have bought with the £150 it cost me to send him.
By my reckoning that's quite a few curries and beers.
He assured me the trip will be of great historical interest, but one little pledge the school made us make before he left keeps gnawing away at me.
In a succinct message home the letter, which worryingly had to be signed, read: "If my child's behaviour falls below acceptable levels I will pick him up and return him to England".
Nick left on Monday with a curtly delivered warning that I had no intention of crossing the Channel so soon after returning to work from a week off.
There's always the wine though I suppose.
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Hi Bad dad,
Its sometimes better off to leave them alone. My daughter too used to be the same way, but now is lot wiser,makes numerous trips by road or channel crossing by ferry, now books well in advance, looks for good deals.. guess need to wait for the right time for your son to grow up..
It was really a nice voyage by ferries to have such a trip.There's always the wine though I suppose.