Article: Holiday bliss but not until we set off.(Features)

I see husbands at a Birmingham engineering firm are demanding extra time off work to help with baby.

They have the full support of their union, who say they should have two weeks' paid leave to help mother back on her feet again. I'll vote for that.

And what about another extra week before the holiday to help with the preparation, and to stop mother collapsing on the sands in an exhausted heap the moment they get there.

Due to bad planning on someone's part our pre-holiday week happens to fall during a school holiday week.

Instead of the ...

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