To take ds1 to a cheap and gribley pub for a birthday lunch?

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It has a ball pool, the menu is an absolute Nuggerama with Added Additives ... but it is cheap, and he will thoroughly enjoy it. He has a party next week, but I want to do something on his birthday.

Ok, I admit it, I don't care if you all come and tell me I am signing him up for a lifetime of fatty degeneration of the heart and diabetes, it's his birthday and I'm taking him anyway

Take him, he will love it and have a great time. It's nice to do something on their birthdays even if they are having a party later on.

Nuggerama with added additives is a must on a birthday

Yes a lifetime of fat and diabetes from one day of nuggets . If you can't treat your kids once in a while what is the point?
Hope he has a lovely time.
Have to confess I'd be more freaked about the ball pit!! I have a real fear of them. dd2 got stuck in the middle of one and I had to go get her out. I was literally shaking when I got out (she ran off onto something else quite unbothered).

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YOu know when your feet stick to the carpet, and there is a faint odour of something intangibly unpleasant, and you don't reall want to use the highchair without a discreet Dettol wipe?

That's gribley. Only mothers notice it.

Gribleys are also germs, tiny little insects, or specks of dirt.

OOO definetly go! I love gribley pubs...they are the best kind! LOL

Seriously though, noone in their right mind would think that one meal of chicken nuggets etc would cause harm to a child surely? I'm sure you feed him fab super foods every other day of the year! Have a great time and enjoy yourselves

It sounds utterly marvellous. Children need gribble.

a bit of gribble does wonders for the immune system.

Do it, early pub training is essential

I am taking him. he will love it. I shan't concern myself overly with the menu, because let's face it, it's not like he'll eat anything but the free icecream.

Gawd! If you can put up with it, I am certain he'll love it.

I love the word gribbly.

We had a 5th birthday party at a very Gribbly pub with soft play. dd2's choice. I spent the whole time neurotically apologising and explaining to everyone that we only had it there because we were moving house that day, and that the menu had NOTHING to do with me.

we went ... and god, they've had a refurb. It's been fitted with a wooden pirate ship style play area (but not big and scary for little ones - I let my titch two year old loose) and there is some dressing up, toys, ball pit, chalk boards, all spotless and I fed me and the kids, with drinks, for £7. the boys had a fantastic time and it's a 5 minute walk from my house. Now THAT is sometyhing worth spouting about!