Millie Week 84: Mon 13 March - Sat 18 April 1992

The week leading up to Easter brought forth this. Now the parents were in place I could now channel my memories of long bank holidays spent stuck in the back of a Ford Cortina in the 1970s.

The something beginning with J is of course 'Jam'.

Friday's strip is missing. Which is a pity, as Roger would have drawn it so well, and it's so much a vignette drawn straight from my own childhood...


FRIDAY 17th April.

1. OK, it's one of those Vistavison jobs*. Grouting terrace, early morning. The sun has barely managed to struggle over the horizon. We see a line of acrs parked outsode their respective houses. Each one has a their owner either stuffing hampers into the hatchback, attaching trailers laden with camping equipment, fixing canoes to roofracks or or strapping bikes to those precarious clampy things on the backs of estate cars. In short, the road is a hive of activity. Dads fiddle around with their cars while Mums wait patiently inside them, trying to stop the kids from starting all out war on the back seat. Millie's parents are much the same. Dad is trying to control whatever is hidden under a lumpy tarpaulin on the roof rack hile Mum fills the hatch back with Tupperware. Millie stands in the foreground in the far right corner of the frame, looking on.
MILLIE: BEHOLD THE EASTER RITUAL OF GETTING UP EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH ON THE M25!

* In other words, this is a single panel strip.