Father's Day: your top ideas and tips, please!

Anyone got any very last-minute ideas for a gift from DS (3 months old) for his Grandad!? Needs to be posted. Aaarrrggghhh, Photobox have let me down. Ordered lovely photo gift but still not arrived

Thanks will look at those. Not sure he needs wireless anyway and not sure they justify the price

Bose are good - don't know if they do wireless though

Was thinking some wireless headphones! More of a gift for me so I don't have to go to sleep listening to the football!! Anyone know which models are the best? Are they any good?

6 years ago I gave my h the best fathers day gift ever (ds!) - but easier gifts are photo mugs, lie in with cooked breakfast, pack him off to the pub with mates

He'll get a nice lie in, breakfast of his choice whenever he gets up and a card (or 3) from our ds's with a present that they have chosen (atm they want to get him a new shirt - I'm suggesting more exciting tings but not having any luck in changing their minds!).

In the afternoon, we'll probably go round to the in-laws to give FIL his cards and gift (which DH will organise).

I have forotton all about my Dad . Just off to put my thinking cap on!

What NOT to do: sod off the night before so you'll be on the piss ready for the London-Brighton bike ride. As my ex regularly did.

What TO do: A lie-in, cup of tea in bed (I'm not a fan of breakfast in bed), afternoon out as a family somewhere sunny.

Take the DC's out of the house as early as possible to give him a lie in. Leave something nice for him to eat and the papers in the kitchen for when he gets up. Get the kids to make him a card.

Reappear around 4ish for an FD tea party involving pass the parcel where he wins a very small present.

Have a glass of wine in the kitchen and make a nice supper whilst he has time with the kids and puts them to bed.

Have lovely supper and wear something special for pudding

Oh bugger. I had better do something for my father, hadn't I. IMHO DH can lump it with whatever the DC make at school/nursery since that is what I got for Mother's Day, but the DC will probably outvote me on that.

Do you think DH and my father would like a joint present of a promise to drop them off at, and pick them up from, their favourite pub's beer festival the following weekend? That is the most I am prepared to consider, since they both have birthdays shortly afterwards and neither is known for the modesty or affordability of their wish lists.

Heavy petting from the wife, something nice made by the kids, a long lie in, being woken by excited kids (after a LOOONG lie in) to play in bed, breakfast in bed (not too heavy, made by kids if possible). Watch some TV or go out in the garden for a while and then out for lunch.

Present. A toy. Remote control car or plane something like that. Or some graphic novels. If toys then after lunch playing with the new toy with the kids.

Kids to bed, nice dinner and then TV, some more heavy petting from the wife.

smoked salmon/muffins/scrambled eggs (not in bed, the kids will knock it all over!) with fresh coffee and juice, after a lie-in til about 9am (no longer as he hates wasting the day). The day is always either this to start, or early up and out for cooked breakfast before the rush at a nice cafe near the ferry to cornwall, then over to cornwall for a walk.

If there is footie, watch the footie with his son!

Bikerunski -glad its not just my dh !!I've never had anything decent except the odd card in 7 yrs now!

Lie in, bacon butties for breakfast and I'll do all chidldcare for the day, leaving him free to ride bike/watch boy telly/stay in bed.

EXCEPT - He did nothing for me, not even a card, on Mother's Day. Didn't actually acknowledge it, and he knows it was because DS "made" (he was 18 months old)a card for me at nursery and DH picked him up. So I am thinking of ignoring Father's Day too.

Planning to tell my ex to pull his finger out and make a bit more effort as a dad

Strongblackcoffee - tee hee!
I got a set of sparkplugs for Christmas once from xdp......
DH will probably get a lie-in, a seriously large bar of Galaxy from the dcs and maybe a day off from DIY.

On the first father's day (novelty has worn off now) I got a photo book printed of pics of DS and Daddy with captions. He quite liked that.

Have just checked the date in a panic that its next week but its AGES away

Just seen the date on the first post lol! typical.

When is Fathering Sunday

I like to get him something he can Do with DS (3).

Last year it was the 'My Dad' board book by Anthony Browne for them to read together.

This year he is being particularly lovely, so am considering splurging on a remote-controlled boat for them to scare the ducks with.

Oh, and DS will make a card.

He will quite possibly be getting a strip of pansies from Focus, similar to the one I received for my mother's day present

He gets a card made by the dcs (usually at toddlers so I don't have to mess around with glue and paint which they will spend 5 seconds on and take me 3 hours to clean up) and if he's lucky a bag of liquorice allsorts. For last Mothering Sunday Dh gave me the card that Ds had made at toddlers (which I take him to so I had helped to make the bloody thing) and that was it

bollocks!

every day is father's day

My DH will be in SA for the football...but at least I get out of having to faff around being wifely.

How rude. he he.