Results tagged “school trip” from Birmingham Mail - Bad Dad

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.

A COUPLE of weeks to go before the lads set off on a hideously overpriced football trip to Spain and we've been issued with a 'must have' kit list.

Two tracksuit bottoms, boots with plastic studs only, two pairs of trainers...the thing reads like a Christmas wish list rather than an inventory for three days away.

Worryingly one of the boys has seen it as an opportunity to get mum and dad to stock up for the whole year - and his brother, anxious not to be left behind, has followed suit.