to think Mumsnet judgy pants would have had something to say about this

[DuelingFanjo]

Surely taking your kids about the place like this is dangerous?

lighthearted thread

How else would you do it though! Imagine the madness of that number of babies..,

You're absolutely right.

They need to close the doors first

Ah, is it the Waltons? Amazing family.

Gah! Muddy shoes in the trolley

yes - the Waltons. One of the Sextuplets has had a baby called Jorgie.

I remember driving to Cornwall on holiday. 5 hour drive. 4 of us kids in the back - no seatbelts and my baby brother sat on my mums knee in the front of the car!! This was going back 30 years tho.

It was not pleasant. Think 'Mum she is breathing on me'. Dad stopping the car - 'If you don't stop arguing we are going home'.

Haha - good times

i remember driving from Reading to Cornwall and sleeping in the boot of the estate car with my brother and sister. I must have been 8/9, so 30 years ago.

Seems mad now when we do a similar journey most summers and we just set off early and arrive just after lunch. Kids all safely strapped in but still the arguments about them breathing on each other or taking up to much room.

My parents would put the back seats of the vaxhaull nova down and us four children would lie on duvets on the journey to Cornwall in the 80's.
It was horrific when we had to sit in the seats. (6 people in a three door hatchback. Urgh.)

Mind you we'd travel about on the tractor trailer at home.

As babies the carry cot would slide about on the back seat of the Morris minor.

I recall a primary school trip in the late 70's to a wildlife park. The coach company had let the school down and we were taken in an ex army bus which only had seating for 3/4 of the class. The rest had to sit on oil drums at the back of the bus. Unsurprisingly there was a rush for the drums

We often travelled in the back of my Dads Transit rather than sit on the seats. He also played in a band so if I went with him would often be wedged in between drum kit and speakers

Aged about 11 or so, my brothers did a milkround each morning, hanging on the back of the milk float and leaping off at each house with a handful of bottles.

Sounds OK? Wait till you hear that it was unpasteurised milk...

Goodness, you have reminded me of our trips to Cornwall asleep under duvets with the back seats down. Luggage all around us ??

I was once SO excited to sit on the wheel arches inside the van for a journey once

Did the whole country go to Cornwall on holiday 30 years ago? We did too. 3 siblings in the back of a Hillman Imp... no seat belts, but we were all squashed in with sleeping bags and pillows. I'm 10 years junior to my siblings and I was always put in the middle to stop them fighting. But they just used to fight over the top of me. I remember my Mum saying, 'If you don't stop it we're going back home'. Yeah right... 6 hour journey back to The Midlands.

Plus the car was too small to get the trailer up the hills so we used to have to stop on the verge while my Dad unloaded the tent, sleeping bags, cooking equipment etc off the parcel shelf so he could open the boot and let the engine cool down. I remember my mum firing up the camping stove so we could have a cuppa on the side of the road. Happy days.

Four adults and three children in a Rover 2000. Plus suitcases and Christmas presents.

A company of Guides, all their luggage, tents, food and cooking equipment for a camping holiday in the back of a removal van. Tents and kit bags are comfy to sit on.

A lot less traffic on the roads 40 years ago.

We used to camp in Europe a lot and us three kids would go in the back of a Maxi with the back seats down to make a huge bed. I can still picture my mum's flailing arm as she tried to reach one of our legs from the front seat to stop the bickering.

Even in the 90s my mates and I used to travel to London regularly, sitting on the floor in the back of a Bedford Rascal.

Rolling around in sleeping bags on the back seat on long journeys.

And when staying with cousins fighting over who sat on sponge seats facing backwards in the back of the Volvo.
then we'd pull faces at the car behind

Yes long journey to Cornwall here too, setting of at 4am

I went to Cornwall as a kid, not quite 30 years ago though!

There were three adults and five children (plus one hamster) on the trip. Seat belts? What's that?

Much fun was had!

Only last year in Paris i watched a couple getting into a Smart car (2 seater) with their young baby and the mum just put her seatbelt on and then held onto the child

We used to drive from Birmingham to the west of Ireland every summer. 5 kids luggage etc.
When we got bigger and another baby came along we had an estate car and at least one of us had to sit in the boot.
One time my dad couldn't come to Ireland with us so he got us seats on a mini bus. It was a Hiace with 3 rows of seats, probably room for 8 adults. There were 7 adults and 6 children all squashed, 3 hours to Holyhead and then about 5 hours to Co Mayo. Ah the memories.

I remember laying on my belly whilst reading in the boot of my dads car whilst out and about. DC don't believe me as 'their' GD is very insistant about seat belts!
And yes to sitting on people's laps to squash more of us in. I have fond memories of squashing my poor gp's for hours at a time...
I was a face puller too TwatFaceBitch (your name pleases me)

Travelling in the boot was great fun.