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So the wife says to me yesterday 'what do you want to do for Father's day?' Is this a day when father's get to do as them dam well please or should they spend it with the people for whom they are a father?
My first thought was yeaassss a whole day at Cannock please with pub for tea. Turns out this wasn't the same as what my wife thought it should be, namely family country walk, me mowing the lawn, then a 'family movie' this probably means Frozen again if my 3 year has anything to do with it, then tea out. Not a bad day but not as good as doing 2 laps of the monkey.
What have you got planned?
🙂
MrsMC is away camping with her Guide unit this weekend. I shall be ferrying two kids to various sporting activities. Having Sunday lunch at my parents to see my dad.
There will be no cycling or drinking for me this Fathers Day, which rules out two of my favourite activities. Not much chance of the "other" favourite either.
Well, mother's day = we usually make breakfast in bed for her and then do what she wants, which is normally a country walk and coffee somewhere with the kids.
On that assumption, i'll be doing what I want until the afternoon where we have a BBQ to go to. Anyone else for coke and hookers Sunday a.m?
Wife and I taking my 12 yo daughter and 11 yo step son on train to start of cycle path to Loch Lomond, 13 mile cycle to Balloch, meeting my mum and dad and then a big lunch when the two older daughters arrive on the train. Weather looks like it might hold out as well. Train all the way home as well so one or two pints to be had.
I've promised my kids we can go see Peppa Pig appearing in person at the racecourse. They are 17,14 and 12. That or they leave me alone to go out on the bike.
I'll be sleeping before nightshift.
No present from stepdaughter as she needs to find £900 to repay me the phone bill from her mobile, after allowing friends to piggyback her mobile data.
Stepson can't even be arsed with Mothering Sunday, so I doubt I'll even get a second thought.
I'll be woken up gently by the missus for some pre-breakfast nookie then breakfast in bed, the rest of the day will be spent riding my bike and generally doing as I please before coming home to a slap up meal and some fine wine, before dozing off contentedly in front of the telly.
In my frikkin' dreams. 3 kids under 5 means I'll probably get a lie in till 6.30, change a shitty nappy or 2 then argue with the 2 eldest about what they want for breakfast, followed by the daily battle of wills that is getting them dressed and out of the house to do whatever [b][u]THEY[/b][/u] want to do.
Love it 🙂
going to see How to train your dragon 2
to be honest I'm pretty excited about it as I loved the first one 🙂
Coke and hookers for the day, for me. Don't know what the kids and the missus are doing
Even now, when I hear them shout 'Dad' through the house, it still makes me smile.
I don't need a special day, being a dad is great.
Meh. Its ok, but coke and hookers is better 😀
Chomp, that's a grand idea!.
Fitting some downlights and an extractor fan in our current house project - the main bathroom refit.
Livin' The Dream, just Livin' The Dream...
nothing, its a pointless day just like mothers, valintines, easter and xmas days.
If a pointless day is enough excuse for me to get out on a bike ride before 7pm then I'm all for it, killjoy. 😉
My 91 old dad and I are being taken for tea by my two boys (15 & 17). 😀
When is it?
I see my kids all the time and they annoy me constantly. I'm out biking and expect a roast + all the trimmings when I get back.
This ^^^ will not happen.
My day so I choose. Drink coffee and read papers and tootle on the bike.
I probably ought to go and see my father, as I see very little of him these days (he leads two lives, and mine rarely intersects with either). But it's a 4=hour drive each way, so unlikely.
So, hopefully that means a day with Mrs North and my daughter. And, if it doesn't rain, we'll have lunch somewhere and then go and play on Ainsdale beach for a while in the afternoon.
I think I'll buy myself a kite....
nice one. looks like its when were on our jols!!
also means dont have to buy owt for my old man! double result
jekkyl - MemberIf a pointless day is enough excuse for me to get out on a bike ride before 7pm then I'm all for it, killjoy
I don't need an excuse 😉
According to my wife, father's day is a modern construct devised by the card companies, and hence will not be observed.
Mother's day, on the other hand, is centuries old and as such the whole breakfast in bed / pampering / flowers / meal out so she doesn't need to cook is compulsory.
I`ll be riding the last part of my devon coast to coast 🙂 .. okehampton to plymouth and then getting the train back to barnstaple
Whatever I'm told
Gonna be odd cause mine passed away in march and it still hasn't sunk in. Eldest daughter off to Canada thursday for the summer so me and the youngest will do something. Maybe an early ride up to the crem first on my own and then call in and check on mum on way back. LOVE your dads while you still have em. Oh and a couple of Talisker s in the evening to toast his memory
My parents have plans, the wife is working and me and the lad are helping Marshall cars with the scout group at a local open day.
I'll get the old man a gift and card etc, from my kids I won't receive anything but I wouldn't dare provide nothing on mothers day.
I've just been informed that I *can* have cycling time on sunday but only until 11, aren't I lucky! so probably just enough time for one lap of the monkey or a bigger local ride. Wouldn't swap being a father for anything though.
LOVE your dads while you still have em.
+1, mine passed in 99, our time here is fleeting.
Waking up sore after a day at BPW & looking forward to a day in the welsh hills 🙂
I shall be spending it with my two boys and wife. If the weather is good a family bike ride will probably feature with ice cream and pop.
If I have to watch a kid friendly film it had better be despicable me (1 or 2) or Madagascar and not planes.
I also hope to be eating barbecue food in the garden with cider.
Most probably going to wicksteed park for wicksteed at war.
Hopefully the weather will be fine so we can look at the tanks and stuff 🙂
Ideally it would be spent watching the last two Kurosawa DVDs I have left to watch with my daughter and generally relaxing.
More likely to be spent with the in laws though!
Was going to go for a long road ride then Mrs FH reminded me that I'm cooking a roast for her Father. Happy Fathers Day my arse.
My daughter's been dying to give me my present for about 3 months. Has so far managed not to tell me what it is though 🙂
We'll be going to Ludlow to see my Dad, but I'll make us stop at Starbucks on the way up 🙂
Since they've grown up, it means I do what the hell I choose, I might go for a ride, I might go for a sail, I might not, if it's raining I might watch some old black and white movie, like it's a wonderful life and contemplate how I got this far without topping myself.
If they bring down their city boy eurotrash boyfriends, I might not be able to resist calling them the Gee Eh? Why? word then I might make them go for a ride with me and watch them die up the first hill, then spend the rest of the day berating them for the mummies pussy boys that men are these days.
All in all I shall be as curmudgeonly as only old dads can be on fathers day and get away with it.
I can't wait.
Weekend away in Ambleside.
Just happens to be our 40th wedding anniversary on same day.
Kids will be 30mls away with their kids.
No biking Sat(off night shift+travelling)or Sun but Mon, Tues and Wed should see a few miles of the Lakes finest ridden 😆
Wife goes to majorca on friday with her folks,me oh sat dirtbike enduro day in wales on saturday beer after with the boys,watch england later that night then long mynd on sunday.
Ho hum. 😆
Telling him that he should sell the bloody house and buy a bloody Porsche because he has had a kind of shitty life and deserves to enjoy this early retirement business with the first woman he has ever truly loved.
And 7 pints and 7 bags of scampi fries.
Swimming and lunch as usual and then me/mrs/junior out in the arvo for a trip and tea 🙂
Ideally I'd be off out riding probably Kirroughtree as it's my fave trail.
what will happen though is I'll end up having a 'family day' doing something or other...
suppose you cant be a father without having family, so fathers day is more likely about that.
but still 😉
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghnamely family country walk, me mowing the lawn, then a 'family movie'
At the risk of sounding selfish, it'll be a pan-Cannock epic where there's nobody and nothing to fark it up
Isn't it just the same as mothers' day?
SWMBO chooses what the family do.
Hopefully me and my 14 yr old son will use Fathers Day as a reason/excuse to go to an uplift day at the reasonably newly opened bike park in Rostrevor. Already took my dad+mum out on Sunday as an advanced Father's Day do.
Might even be able to stretch my luck to pizza out with wife + daughter too when we get home.
Unless it lashes. Then I'll probably watch tele all day.