We drove west for miles, the entire family squashed into a tiny black car, to Dumfries and Galloway. At our final destination I inspected the bathroom facilities. Whoever thought it sensible to install the toilet in the open conservatory next to the dining room was wrong (even if the green and white fern-patterned lid was pretty). It was highly embarrassing to make a visit there in full view of everyone else, both indoors and out.

What I did enjoy, however, was bumping into my Auntie L (in reality my second cousin one removed) and one of her daughters (my third cousin) with my parents in a car park en route.