It's time to think of booking that summer holiday.
However, it's not that easy. Remember the time when you picked a place you liked, someone told you how much it would cost, you'd pay up and enjoy two weeks in the sun getting sunburnt and not drinking the water.
As I have discovered finding somewhere and being told how much is just the start of the process.
Once you get past the initial cost you then get the flight supplement.
This is an ingenious ploy which tells you that although you were booked plane seats at the most economical rate, by some cruel twist of fate in the time it took to click on to the page of the website, they've all gone.
What rotten luck. So the new seats carry an extra charge of almost a £100 each.
Then you get the lovely baggage charge because, and I know this is an outrageous demand, the airlines now seem to be amazed that we want to take suitcases with us and what's even crazier is we expect the aeroplane to carry them for us.
I know it's ridiculous but apparently some people quite like clean clothes when they go away.
The problem is the more stuff we take the heavier the poor plane gets and the more petrol is uses. That means another polar bear falls off a melting ice cap. So it's a charge to help save the planet or as it's otherwise known "a nice little earner".
By the time you've been through all that you've doubled the cost and you can't afford to go anymore. Looks like it's another year at home with a good book