Have to say I’m glad I haven’t got kids at this time of year! (most times of year really! :lol: )
Summer holidays as a kid….up for breakfast then down to the beach which was less than 5 minutes away with only a rolled up towel (no mobiles, no mp3 players, maybe just a book for entertainment). Spending all morning playing beach cricket or frisbie or swimming in the sea (was it really cleaner back then?!) until our mams all turned up with packed lunches – swapping sandwiches cos we always liked the sarnies someone else’s mam had brought better than our own! More playing and swimming in the afternoon, burying each other in the sand and making fake grotesque bodies out of the sand (you don’t want to know!). Then dad turning up after work, another hour on the beach then home for supper, washing the sand off in the paddling pool before putting our shoes back on.
Simple, but we never seemed to get bored, and the most it cost our parents was the occasional bag of doughnuts or chips from the beach shop.