Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Flip

1 2

Original poster

What did you Or wish you’d done for DH 40th

37 replies

Verity35 · 26/07/2020 16:28

Not an AIBU obviously but hoping for more answers please.

DH 40th coming up very soon and I’m really struggling to think of ideas. Please tell me what you did or plan to do or wish you had done.

I’m thinking of having a family party with extended family at home or in a small hall as this is what’s usually done in both our families. I don’t know tho!

OP posts:

MichonnesBBF · 26/07/2020 17:26

My husbands is coming up next week, i have organised an experience day (driving a super car) from me and the kids, lunch in our local country hotel with us and his parents, back to his parents for a socially distanced get together with a handful of friends and family for cake and champagne, this is were he will be presented with an acustic guitar and accessories everyone has chipped in with (wanted one for years)

Then back to the hotel just the 2 of us for massages, swim and an over night stay. Then the next day we are travelling to the lakes for 3 days away with the kids.

He knows nothing except the lakes trip.
Really looking forward to it.

Kittytheteapot · 26/07/2020 17:30

We were very impoverished for both our 40ths. Mine came first and we took our children to Paris for the weekend. Not as glamorous as it sounds, it was done on an absolute shoestring but it was fun to do something different.

For dh's, we were already on holiday in Cornwall. Instead of hanging out in our usual haunts, we went to St Ives for the day and had a pasty on the beach. As I say, we were impoverished. It is the small things that count.

IHeartHarryStyles · 26/07/2020 17:31

My husbands is in December. 3 days before Christmas. I’m taking him to Canada and doing Toronto and Niagara. I can’t wait 😂

It’s a surprise, he has no idea. Our kids will be 17 and 10 though so no little ones to think about.

radioband · 26/07/2020 17:34

I booked a skydive for my husband, it would of been on his 40th had the weather been suitable, we had to postpone and do it the following Saturday. We went out for a family meal on his actually 40th instead.

Drogonssmile · 26/07/2020 17:37

We had a large family lunch at a city centre smart restaurant/pub because there were kids to involve and we didn't want a late night thing and family clubbed together to get him a 1 1/2 flying lesson which he loved.

Xuli · 26/07/2020 17:43

DH's in next spring and I've booked two nights for us at l'Enclume in the Lakes. It's not cheap but it's not that expensive all in for two nights stay, tasting menu one night and dinner at another restaurant the next night. He loves food so it seemed a good idea.

Mintjulia · 26/07/2020 17:51

Organised him a party.

I asked repeatedly over the previous 6 months if he wanted a party or a city break or something else. He kept saying he didn’t want any fuss. So I took him to Copenhagen for the weekend.
He then moaned for years that I hadn’t organised him a party

Bebbanburger · 26/07/2020 17:52

For mine we went on a cruise with the kids. We had an extended family and best friends lunch then set off down to the port. It was lovely, felt very special.
My DH is a little younger than me so when his came.round we were comfortable about leaving the kids with my parents. We had a meal with his family and then we flew to Spain and did a mini 4 night tour of Andalusia

Iamclearlyamug · 26/07/2020 17:54

I took my ExH to a country pub supposedly for a quiet birthday lunch just me and him and our DD.

I’d arranged for his closest group of friends to surprise us there, sent them off together for a game of foot golf (exactly like it sounds, golf but with a football 😂😂) and a few beers. Later they came back to ours, I ordered them all a massive takeaway, then a 7 seater taxi picked them up and took them into town for a night out

He loved it and said it was the best birthday ever - shame he was actually a cheating shit and we’re divorced now 😂😂

CaptainMerica · 26/07/2020 18:08

How funny, I was thinking about this today too. I've got 2 months to work it out. Mine would hate a party.

All my shortlisted ideas seem so risky. Spas still don't have a date to open in Scotland, flights to Spain are out... following for ideas!

Onesailwait · 26/07/2020 18:20

I organized a golf day for my Dh. 10 friends (they all paid for themselves) 1 paid $300 to the drinks cart and that kept them in beer for the afternoon. Then all back to ours plus wives/partners & kids for a BBQ and a back yard camp out. It was a lot of fun.

Realitybites21 · 26/07/2020 22:53

Spitfire flying experience & a long weekend here......
www.scarlethotel.co.uk/

Flip

1 2