What a difference

It does seem a lot quieter on the roads when children are on holiday, although the shopping experience in supermarkets, dodging poorly supervised children is the reverse of the coin! I must have missed the bit where aisles double as playgrounds for bored children. I actually had to ask a child if she would mind not sitting on the butter I was trying to get this morning. Around seven or eight I guess, her teenage years are going to be interesting! 

The school holidays up here are strange this year. The schools were off Good Friday and Easter Monday and then they were back in this week from Tuesday until Friday and then off for 2 weeks a bit bizzare really so the roads here are still quite busy.

Holidays haven't started here yet, as they are mid-term  - not necessarily over Easter.  However, being a very rural area, most children round here travel to school by bus.  Even during the holidays, you don't see a lot of kids around.

Here in South Wales they are off all next week to so road wise another good week.  but  as for the supermarkets yes takethedogalong we noticed that to I'm sure most parents fiorget they have them with them   In our longer paper police have ask parents to Please Try and Control there children in the new shopping area in the town as anti social behaviour is becoming out of control  

Oh dear RT! These were just a bit of a nuisance rather than anything really bad, but I just find it dangerous as they could so easily tip over a stack of goods or get hit by trolleys. Playing tag up and down the aisles is not good! 

Inthought most of children would be back at school next week, but reading above, it seems holidays are all over place nowadays. Must be a bind for working parents.

so different down here ,now you can do 70mph the whole length of the M20,and cuts about 20 minutes off my journey to the shop 

wonderful no traffic no nutters no road hogs  and all because there's no school what a difference, is it the same for you ? 

definitely for  us... We live by a school and are blocked in at both ends of school day, no regards for drives or our cars in them, wardens were having a splurge last week and we had bliss but the day they left the cars were back. Wouldn't be so,bad if they left drives clear but no, and abuse aplenty if you ask them to move ?...still  2 weeks of freedom now and we are away for 5 days of it still easy to get Moty in and out for packing.

Roads quiet, but town and shops busy. OH has been home early this week, gets his deliveries done much faster as not as much traffic  so he is a happy bunny this week.

You were lucky takethedogalong I had to dodge acouple of kids on those wheelie trainers hurtling up the supermarket aisles!

wonderful no traffic no nutters no road hogs  and all because there's no school what a difference, is it the same for you ? 

Yep same for us, Impatient speeders pre 9 and nothing to slow them down, no nutters just idiots taking advantage of clearer roads and selfish pigs who think other road users shouldn't be allowed. Makes you wonder why caravans on the road upset some people as we are so considerate of the rest of society.