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AIBU to take kids to the pub

63 replies

Onecurrantbun · 09/04/2015 16:26

Don't get me wrong we go to the pub loads. Considering taking them for a drink tonight in a lovely little pub with a beer garden. It is around 19'c at themoment. Its only April though so feels way to early in the year for loafing in beer gardens!

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Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2015 16:27

Do it. Grin

MaxPepsi · 09/04/2015 16:28

Do it!

Take a cardi for later and enjoy yourself over a glass of wine!

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 09/04/2015 16:29

Go, go, go! sounds lovely.

Ludways · 09/04/2015 16:29

I would. Enjoy!

Backtobedlam · 09/04/2015 16:30

It's only the same as taking them to the park, just with more seating and drinks on tap! xx

PiperIsTerrysChoclateOrange · 09/04/2015 16:31

Depends if your children are like mine and will run riot, or will happily sit nice.

1 pet hate of mine is unruly children when I'm trying to enjoy a beer garden :- DC don't come when I do.

farewellfigure · 09/04/2015 16:32

I wish there was a nice pub with a garden near here. And I wish DH wasn't coming home at 7.30 which is too late. Boo. Jealous! Go and enjoy.

Sirzy · 09/04/2015 16:33

Sounds good.

I am in the garden drinking cider while DS and his cousins play

Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2015 16:34

I want to go now. Envy but I have teenagers and a bottle of Coke with a straw and a bag of Golden Wonder doesn't cut it any more.

Original poster
Onecurrantbun · 09/04/2015 16:37

Piper they are boisterous but not naughty (even after a Fruit Shoot or two)

Sod it, we'll go. It's about a mile walk over open fields so we won't have time to stay long anyway. This could be all the summer we get and I'm ginger so hotter than this is too much for me

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irishamy89 · 09/04/2015 17:00

Sounds great, go! I'm jealous here as I'm pregnant and living it up with a fruit pastilles ice lolly! Grin

geekymommy · 09/04/2015 17:02

This American thought that was something you guys did in the UK.

FrenchJunebug · 09/04/2015 17:05

YANBU I infuriates me that in Britain you cannot take kids to pub after 6pm. I used to love going to cafes with my parents in the early evenings and feel very grown up.

PesoPenguin · 09/04/2015 17:13

YANBU I have lovely memories of playing in beer gardens on lovely sunny evenings as a child. Might do that ourselves when dh gets home tomorrow Smile

Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2015 17:15

geeky I was browsing in a bookshop in Washington and I looked at a book about going to the UK for a holiday. It said that we all go to the pub after work and play darts, then go to the Fish and Chip shop for dinner afterwards. Confused

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MrsFlannel · 09/04/2015 17:23

Geeky not in the evening unless it's a specifically family friendly pub. At night people want to be free to swear and things!

goodnessgraciousgouda · 09/04/2015 17:27

I live in the south of France and kids are in bistro's (the equivalent of a pub here) ALL THE TIME. Often til pretty late as well.

I find it weird that anyone would find it weird, if you know what I mean.

I didn't know children weren't allowed in pubs after 1800!! Then again, it's a bit of a different atmosphere in bistro's I guess - you can't just stand around like you can in a pub - it's a bit more like a café restaurant type thing, so it rarely gets super crowded, there's never crazy loud music, etc.

Have to say that the kids are always impeccably behaved though.

In summary - do it, and I find it strange that you would even need to ask!

TragicallyUnbeyachted · 09/04/2015 17:30

Geeky, yes in the day (e.g. at lunchtime) but it's more debatable in the evening. If there's a beer garden it's generally fine (though indoor smoking ban means that beer gardens trend to be occupied by smokers and small children, who don't form an obvious partnership). If the beer garden has play equipment then children are more-or-less expected.

bloodyteenagers · 09/04/2015 17:36

Not all pubs have the 6pm thing.
We go to a few that even have the open beer garden over lookng a park. Teens also come along. Younger one in the park. Older ones sun bathing or in the water bit. Us drinking.

MammaTJ · 09/04/2015 17:39

I would here. There is a fab pub locally with a huge play area. They allow kids till 9 or darkness, whichever is earlier.

RedToothBrush · 09/04/2015 17:51

I don't get why this would be unreasonable.

baffled

geekymommy · 09/04/2015 17:54

It said that we all go to the pub after work and play darts, then go to the Fish and Chip shop for dinner afterwards.

You don't?

Ah well, we don't eat at McDonald's for every meal, either. There are lots of us who have never owned a gun.

Is it up to each pub owner to decide if they want to allow children after 6pm, or is there a law saying they are allowed in some kinds of pubs and not others?

I wish we had pubs with slides and swings. (Hell, I wish I could get a drink at any kind of pub right now, but I'm 25 weeks pregnant.) I wish we had restaurants other than fast food ones with slides and such. You can take your kids to a restaurant with non-crap food, or you can take them to one with slides, but it seems like you can't do both Sad

milkysmum · 09/04/2015 17:58

Of course you are not unreasonable- strange you need to askGrin

Jacobsmum1972 · 09/04/2015 18:00

Do it while it lasts you never know the British weather.

Hopefully we will have a summer like last summer nearly every day was sunny.