Postcard from Norfolk - Friends and family

It is always important, when holidaying with one’s family, to choose the largest holiday cottage that you can afford. Essentially, you want to ensure that when on holiday with people you love very much, it is possible to put some distance, and rooms, between yourself when you realise after about five minutes just how irritating they can be. Not that you ever actually need to stomp off into another room, but the concern that such an option does not exist can put everyone on edge from the outset.

Holiday anxiety is cubed when one is joined by friends on holiday. People who you enjoy drinking with, or dining with, are not always the same happy go lucky folk when it comes to sobering up or scrubbing out pans.

Moreover, if friends are staying with you at the same time as family, you run the risk of one group offending the other accidentally or causeing some sort of embarrassing scene.

Luckily, and unsurprisingly, my friends rock up with industrial levels of booze, and social lubricant saves the day.