In his family they call them ‘bed biscuits’, the Tunnock’s Caramel Wafers Garry Batten still keeps in his caravan today.
From 1968 when his parents bought their first, a 10ft Bluebird too small for a toilet, his dad would always bring him a mug of tea and a wafer first thing, as he lay snuggled in his fold-out bunk.
In those days there was no heating safe to keep on overnight, so his dad would tiptoe out first, and boil a kettle to warm up the chilly van, making the drinks for six-year-old Garry, his little brother and their mum. A second kettle was for boiling water to wash in.
