It’s soon time for our family holiday, my four cousins and partners and me and my beau will be having a holiday away together. We’ve done this for over twenty years now – it used to be all the family which meant children and then children and their partners, and then children and partners and their children, and after we had been away with thirty-six of us (yes, 36!!) we decided to restrict it to just cousins, partners and me and my husband. This is from ten years ago, 2015:
It won’t be long until we set off on our family holiday; four cousins and their families and our family are setting off to Kent this year. I can’t exactly remember when we first went away altogether, maybe it was 2003… or 2004? The first holiday was to Derbyshire and since then we have been to Cumbria, Yorkshire, Devon, Shropshire, Gloucestershire and last year we went to Norfolk.
Because there are so many of us (probably about 25 of us at any one time because people come and go because of work commitments, but altogether there will be more in total) we have to rent a large property with the right amount of bedrooms to accommodate us all in the right combinations.
Each night a different of the five families cook… but of course there are seven days in the week, so the first night we have sausages and jacket potatoes which virtually cook themselves, and on the last night we have gammon joints and again jacket potatoes and any leftovers!
This year we’re cooking on Wednesday and will be making pork with apples and cider – I hope it will be ok, all my cousins are such good cooks it’s a bit nerve-wracking!
Lois Elsden 