[Barrie Yates]

Our holidays when the children were young was Brixham and a few other places along the South coast - For a few years Gorleston, Happisburgh and Yarmouth and plenty of others on the Norfolk coast sufficed for day trips, a lot depended on leave rosters and money. When they were young they were never left alone at night, we took turns or hired a baby sitter, lucky that there were nearly always some young teenage girls on Married Quarters who liked the extra spending money for baby sitting. Theidea of giving them a good dose of Kalpol and leaving them alone - no way. Young children could awake for the least thing, tummy aches, a tooth ready to erupt, a bad dream, anything could wake them and then they needed the comfort of an adult. How someone came to the decision to fund this three ring circus I will never understand.