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daddy daycare

  • 29-12-2014 3:40pm
    #1
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭


    Holiday boredom setting in..
    wife has asked me to get the kids out of the house for the day tomorrow..
    Im broke so looking for cheap or free ideas for something to do
    Based in Dublin.
    kids Are five and ten.
    bear in mind i will be hungover too...


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  • #2
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,138 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Park - Feed Ducks - Football kickabout - Watch the Deer. Nature walk.


    Done.


  • #3
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Foto Wildlife Park


  • #4
    Heroditas
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    Pirate Village up in Liffey Valley - €5 per kid but some of the extra stuff can cost more.


  • #5
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    Heroditas wrote: »
    Pirate Village up in Liffey Valley - €5 per kid but some of the extra stuff can cost more.

    how long do they get for a fiver..


  • #6
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Buy em a pint at the pub,


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  • #7
    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    Well Can you try your best not be hungover for tomorrow maybe. If you must drink tonight - maybe limit it so that you won't be hungover.

    As for activities to with the kids - yep - park, feeding ducks, playground. That would depend on the weather. Library maybe if it's raining.


  • #8
    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Foto Wildlife Park

    That's in Cork. Op is in Dublin.


  • #9
    Heroditas
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    well spoken man wrote: »
    how long do they get for a fiver..

    As long as you want!


  • #10
    Heroditas
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    In Lonesome Dove wrote: »
    That's in Cork. Op is in Dublin.


    Yeah but the drive there and back would kill at least 5 hours! :D


  • #11
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    In Lonesome Dove wrote: »
    Well Can you try your best not be hungover for tomorrow maybe. If you must drink tonight - maybe limit it so that you won't be hungover.

    As for activities to with the kids - yep - park, feeding ducks, playground. That would depend on the weather. Library maybe if it's raining.

    not going to. Bother drinking tonight....not worth it ....


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  • #12
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    In Lonesome Dove wrote: »
    Well Can you try your best not be hungover for tomorrow maybe. If you must drink tonight - maybe limit it so that you won't be hungover.

    As for activities to with the kids - yep - park, feeding ducks, playground. That would depend on the weather. Library maybe if it's raining.


    His wife?


  • #13
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,373 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    In Lonesome Dove wrote: »
    Well Can you try your best not be hungover for tomorrow maybe. If you must drink tonight - maybe limit it so that you won't be hungover.

    As for activities to with the kids - yep - park, feeding ducks, playground. That would depend on the weather. Library maybe if it's raining.
    In Lonesome Dove wrote: »
    That's in Cork. Op is in Dublin.

    Safe to say you're new to after hours :D


  • #14
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Don't drink and use the money you'll save to spend on the kids.....


    ......failing that - Phoenix Park with a football. They've also a decent playground near the visitors' centre. (St Anne's or Marlay Park is another option depending on your location.

    If you go to the Phoenix Park, park at the Papal Cross and tell them to have a race up and down the hill there......then get them to do it again.....and again.....and again :D

    Or a brisk walk / kickabout on the beach. See if you can get a kite and fly it there with them.

    The added bonus is that the fresh air will knock 'em out tomorrow night - and you too probably!


  • #15
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    In Lonesome Dove wrote: »
    That's in Cork. Op is in Dublin.

    Yeah but this is the Cork forum.


  • #16
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,138 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Yeah but this is the Cork forum.

    Eh, yes... it is...... ehh


  • #17
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    Are any museums open in town tomorrow??


  • #18
    Jawgap
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    well spoken man wrote: »
    Are any museums open in town tomorrow??

    Should be - take them to the 'Dead Zoo' - the Natural History Museum.


  • #19
    messrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    national history museum - free In and will take a while to get around. maybe get the dart to bray and walk up bray head - tire the kids out anyway
    are you near corkagh park in clondalkin - that park has a nice little pet farm that the kids may like
    go swimming?


  • #20
    PizzamanIRL
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    Just leave them at the local playground. Someone will pick them up.


  • #21
    Jawgap
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    For info - there's playgrounds in Stephens Green and Merrion Square, if you are heading to a museum.


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  • #22
    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    His wife?

    I'm not his wife. I'm not married and I don't have a husband or kids. Just hangovers are rotten and hangovers and work/kids is not a nice mix.


  • #23
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    In Lonesome Dove wrote: »
    I'm not his wife. I'm not married and I don't have a husband or kids. Just hangovers are rotten and hangovers and work/kids is not a nice mix.
    your spot on...gonna stay on the dry...not fair on the little ones having a grumpy dad for the day.... 😎


  • #24
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    Anyone ever head up to Ratfarnham DSPCA ...are u allowed to take one of the rescue dogs out walking?? This sounds like something the kids would enjoy...


  • #25
    Tearin It Up
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    Don't drink tonight, save your money.

    Take kids to the pub tomorrow.


  • #26
    El_Dangeroso
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    Why are you planning on being hungover, not to be a judgemental judy but maybe don't drink to excess as your plan for the evening?


  • #27
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    Why are you planning on being hungover, not to be a judgemental judy but maybe don't drink to excess as your plan for the evening?

    that was plan A.. Switched to plan B


  • #28
    anncoates
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    Bribe the ten year old to mind the 5 year old.

    Go to the pub.


  • #29
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    anncoates wrote: »
    Bribe the ten year old to mind the 5 year old.

    Go to the pub.

    sheer brilliance .


  • #30
    Annasopra
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    Dont drink tonight.

    Spend the money you would have spent on drink at funderland

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #31
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Walk/climb the Sugarloaf mountain


  • #32
    ALiasEX
    Registered Users Posts: 535 ✭✭✭ALiasEX


    Become black/fat and start a day care center. You'll have loads of money to spend on your kids for the day then.


  • #33
    namloc1980
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    In Lonesome Dove wrote: »
    That's in Cork. Op is in Dublin.

    It's not in Cork. Fota is in Cork, no idea where Foto is.


  • #34
    Baggy Trousers
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    Bring them to a long beach. Kids loves beaches at any time of the year. Running around, the wind, the rocks, rockpools, seaweed, sand and of course water. It can be rejuvenating even with a hangover.


  • #35
    blade1
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    namloc1980 wrote: »
    It's not in Cork. Fota is in Cork, no idea where Foto is.

    No need to get Snappy!:D


  • #36
    Breffnigolfer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Breffnigolfer


    well spoken man wrote: »
    Holiday boredom setting in..
    wife has asked me to get the kids out of the house for the day tomorrow..
    Im broke so looking for cheap or free ideas for something to do
    Based in Dublin.
    kids Are five and ten.
    bear in mind i will be hungover too...

    You could start by staying off the alcohol today. Whatever about the cost, your children deserve more respect from you than to deliberately get drunk in advance of being with them for the day. They will not relish a stinking slob for company.


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  • #37
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    Breffnigolfer wrote: »
    You could start by staying off the alcohol today. Whatever about the cost, your children deserve more respect from you than to deliberately get drunk in advance of being with them for the day. They will not relish a stinking slob for company.

    as i already said won't be drinking tonite ...still might be a stinking slob....


  • #38
    Robroy36
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 224 ✭✭Robroy36


    well spoken man wrote: »
    Holiday boredom setting in..
    wife has asked me to get the kids out of the house for the day tomorrow..
    Im broke so looking for cheap or free ideas for something to do
    Based in Dublin.
    kids Are five and ten.
    bear in mind i will be hungover too...

    Instead of getting pissed spend your money on your children like any decent father would.


  • #39
    Teyla Emmagan
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    well spoken man wrote: »
    Anyone ever head up to Ratfarnham DSPCA ...are u allowed to take one of the rescue dogs out walking?? This sounds like something the kids would enjoy...

    I don't know if you can take the dogs for walks, but they do encourage visitors. You can see all the animals (in their little cages), and they have an outside space with farm animals too. It's actually pretty interesting. You might bring home a dog though.


  • #40
    AboutaWeekAgo
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    Get some boxing gloves and watch them fight each other in the local park. Bring a few cans for yourself as well.


  • #41
    Sunnyisland
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    Get the bus and bring them into o Connell st and let them walk up and down the boardwalk.

    Where they will learn about the different medications that are on sale,it will help them in there future medical career in a few years.


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  • #42
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    Robroy36 wrote: »
    Instead of getting pissed spend your money on your children like any decent father would.

    making assumptions...


  • #43
    Robroy36
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 224 ✭✭Robroy36


    well spoken man wrote: »
    making assumptions...

    How's the head?


  • #44
    well spoken man
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭well spoken man


    Robroy36 wrote: »
    How's the head?

    had a great hangover free day spent in Donadea forest park..
    Mc Donalds for lunch....kids are happy and the wife has me on a promise....happy days....


  • #45
    Dravokivich
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    well spoken man wrote: »
    had a great hangover free day spent in Donadea forest park..
    Mc Donalds for lunch....kids are happy and the wife has me on a promise....happy days....

    You're well spoken for so man. :pac:


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