HOW I laughed reading Helen Mead's article (LET, July 10). It brought back memories of when we took our five-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter to Cornwall 22 years ago.

We set off all very excited. I had put lots of things in the car for her.

We had been driving for 10 minutes, when she asked: "Grandma, are we nearly there?"

"No," I replied, "look at one of your books." Then, the sighing and twitching started. "I hope we're nearly there now, 'cause I'm bored," she said.

We drove a few minutes more and she said: "Grandma, I've very bored now. I hope we're nearly there."

I got really annoyed and said: "Look, love, we're all a bit bored with you going on. I don't want to hear another sound out of you for half an hour."

She was quiet for a minute, then said: "Well, will you just answer me one question, please? Are we still in England?"

I daren't tell you we hadn't even reached Charnock Richard. But after all this we had a super holiday.

M DUCKETT (Mrs), Eskdale Crescent, Blackburn.