David Frost, now 33, once watched the film 20 times in a half-term.
The royal brothers are believed to have first gone skiing in April 1991 with Diana in Austria during a half-term break.
The pilot for Motherland, the brilliant new BBC sitcom by Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan, takes place in the hazy half-light of a half-term holiday, when a woman must call on the wonky kindness of strange mums to help with her kids.
You can say the same about parliamentary sitting dates: Christmas holidays start on 20 December and last until 7 January; there is a half-term week in February, three for Easter and two weeks in May.
In February half term a stay will cost just £679, with breakfast and dinner, wine all day and airport transfers.
This year, a week in February half term at the Clubhotel de Verbier would have cost £3,552 half-board for a family of four - and that's before any essential extras, such as lunches, lift pass and equipment rental.
We'd thought about a weekend away without the kids but the guilt of leaving them got to us, so now we're looking for a week away in October half term or two weeks at Christmas.
One foodbank at Southchuch in Essex has seen such a surge in referrals over half term that it has run out of some items, according to the local press.
Just in time for half term, youth workers in London tomorrow launch a campaign to save playgrounds and youth clubs from closure.
Today: a family holiday in Portugal during half term.
It is busiest in February half term.
