He contradicts himself. In stories he says 4 or 5 calls from M. On grid he says a solitary call from M.
Yep, grid caption says "Apart from a solitary call from Marnie asking me to transfer her money, we didn't hear from the girls for a full 24 hours and it was glorious".
In the story he says "and yes, we got about five phone calls from Marnie with random questions".
I wonder if perhaps Clemmie wrote the caption and they didn't get their stories straight? Or maybe he's just used to making up any old thing to say and didn't even notice.
For all his making a song and dance about precious child-free time, it's not that long since they had time away for themselves. They were posting on HoH from a hotel stay in September 2021 and that's only five months (if they haven't been anywhere else in the meantime).