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

supergreen - he does realise it's not that sort of petting doesn't he?

We are taking DH to a lovely petting zoo and they are doing steak and ale that day in the restaurant.

For our Dads we are going to do compilation of all the videos we have taken of DD so far (6 months) and putting them on a CD for them. Maybe some chocs too.

I meticulously planned by DD's birth for that week
So my DH has the joy of assisting with a childs birthday party of 20 odd hyper 4 year olds!!

Option of ds to visit that weekend, or not as his choice, done discretely behind ds' back. Nice card. As ex's we have a small budget (~£5). i got a lovely plant from ds with card for mothers'd day. ex will probably get a voucher for i-tunes. I love gardening, he loves music. SImples.

Voucher for somthing they can chose to spend on the specific thing they want is good for those with expensive hobbies (golf, fishing, cycling....) One year a friend got her father one of those experiences things that you can get in smiths and other places. He loved it.

It's dp's stag night on the saturday before fathers day, so his treat will be paracetemol and water in bed followed by a fry up when he surfaces. Can't say fairer than that.

DH might get a steak if he's a good boy. DF doesn't do Father's Day! But may make the monsters make him a card.

Ignore it as the made up marketing ploy it is.

I make him his fave meal, renew his subscription to whatever Magazine he is into at the moment and let him have slob around if he wants to.

My Father gets a nice malt whiskey and that keeps him happy.

My don't is - don't book yourself on a girls netball weekend in Spain on fathers day weekend - it doesn't go down very well!

A lie in
Breakfast in bed
Lunch at a restaurant of his choice
Dinner of his choice with a nice cold beer

Fill a photoframe (one of those with various holes in to fill) with photo's just of dh/dp with the kids.

Photobox (and no doubt loads of other sites) print notebooks with pictures of your choice on the front and back.

Proper breakfast is good. When he feels like it.

Actually the best Father's Day present I had from DS and DD was a comic strip/collage thing which they had spent months putting together in a folder with DW's help.

I'm arranging a 'playdate' for him and his wee friends - at the pub

Just realised my DP will be visiting a close friend that weekend to make/listen to squonky music. That's about the best thing I could have offered him anyway. Job done!

Let him have a massive fuck-off lie-in. Don't try and make him "do" stuff.