I want to start an 'Inappropriate Days Out' Club

[donkeyderby]

I feel very restricted with places I can safely take DS but I often think it be fun to go to completely inappropriate places with a bunch of SN children with a range of socially unusual or unacceptable habits, just to be really annoying. Like...

Evensong at St Paul's Cathedral

The House of Commons gallery (obviously when they are not dossing all holidays

Glyndebourne

Dinner at The Ivy

Maybe the audience of 'Top Gear' would be good too

hmm im thinking some quiet art gallery, maybe the tate

RSC production at the National Theatre?

A small, hot, and busy art & crafts workshop (with lots of nt children sitting nicely painting plates) would be ideal to take my ds. Maybe I'll do it for the fun of it

ds would love to go in the audience of some tv shows, dancing on ice, deal or no deal etc but would no doubt start squawking excitedly at the quiet bits and get us flung out!

Ooh yes an art gallery would be good - especially if there was a no-touching sand-sculpture display.

Church Service, any Church Service...
The noise of the organ, people singing, crowds, the lights from the windows, the wooden seating, the books, the hymns with words such as "give me love in your heart" which usually gets ds kissing my chest and shouting his way through the hymm "I'm giving you love in your heart".. The Church also has biscuits and cakes for after the service which ds will keep trying to escape to try to help himself to during the service.

I specialised in this while organising a summer club. If someone said "but you can't take them there," then that was pretty much where we went.

Anywhere that echos makes DS shout, so church is a definite.

Front seats at Frankie Boyle's stand-up show

I'll book the table at the Ivy, Saintly

Any wedding. Doesn't matter where but as wasuup says Churches would be especially good.

Ha ha BigWeeHag. Last summer, I went with friends and SN kids to a really stuffy tea shoppe. We were appallingly inappropriate, like an SN version of 'Withnail and I'.

Antiques centres. Auctions

I love the idea of dinner at The Ivy but perhaps one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants. I'm sure he'd be mightily impressed with the way we would have to adapt the food.

I can imagine him roaring out of the kitchen as I produce a packet of Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps for DS at the table.

My boy loves art galleries and museums, it's a trip of choice. You can look and no one talks to you.
Likewise with cathedrals and abbeys.

Discos, anything involving close interaction with NT children like playgrounds, weddings (he's fine with funerals!), anything where there is a likelihood of someone laughing at him.

Posh restaurant, definitely a Bad Thing.

Oh God, I'm imagining taking DS to a funeral....

Mine fits right in, wearing black, serious expression, appreciates all the trimmings.
He's got a beautiful singing voice too.
Weddings people expect chat and frivolity and they mess you around. Especially if their is a Bridezilla and Mother of same.

I already made a start last year. Took ds round a stately home full of lovely swinging rope barriers and 'do not touch' signs. It's not actually something I'd like to do again as long as I live.

I've had some brilliant experiences. Like the boy I used to foster, waiting until the Sad Bit in the panto, then standing up and yelling "Ha Ha, f*ck you, Tinkerbell." Being chucked in the Diana fountain in Hyde Park while staff pointed/ laughed/ took photos. Took a group to that big posh new shopping centre in London when it first opened, and went into Pizza Express (not exactly posh, but the school default was usually McD's) the kids behaved very very well, but were a leeeeetle bit shocking for the poor staff (who actually coped really well.)

I think I am really lucky, I've been working with people with SN for so long that my embarrassment threshold is practically non-existent. Different priorities to people who live in a totally NT world.

Ds1 loves museums too, although we did have an incident where he wet himself in excitement when he saw a model of a Roman fort (his special interest) and we got thrown out the art part as he was too busy talking about the pictures .

The thought of taking him to a funeral is definitely .

Ha ha again BigWeeHag. It's much more mortifying if the child doing awful things in public is yours. It is also more mortifying if you are on your own with your child. I find it much easier to withstand public horror if I have other friends with SN kids with me, though only those with gallows humour.

LittleMiss, this thread is making me PMSL (weeing at sight of Roman Fort).

Donkey, absolutely - where the luck comes in is that DS1 is mild by comparison, and my "whatyoulookingat" stare is already well practised!

oh my I have been thinking of doing this recently.

Cinema

Love the idea of Top Gear - ds1 would have a whale.

If we went to a posh restaurant, ds1 would be looking for the microwave....

Joseph at the West End? Ds1 would love that. He's join in.

"Ha Ha, f*ck you, Tinkerbell." - Priceless. I would love to have been there.