Jet set lifestyle....

Fathers Day plan:
Opened cards: 2 cards out of 5 offspring: about average.

Have cut the grass.
Sun is shining (amazingly)
Top down run to Derby to buy a Cabbage Patch doll for granddaughters birthday.
Visit our dads graves via winding lanes for Fathers Day. Place some roses from the garden.
We call it the Dead Dad run.

Country pub for late lunch/early tea. And beer. For me. Cranberry juice for the GM.
Chauffeured home by Ginger Midget Transport Services plc.
More beer sitting in the garden (rain permitting)

Works for me! Simple pleasures.

None of my 3 bothered to send a card... :nonod:

It's Father's Day? Really? Can't say I'd noticed.


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Been for a blast out this morning, youngest one came for the ride which was nice, eldest has just produced a copy of Senna DVD so well chuffed..Thanks boys youre the best.

Off to my favorite pub with my wife both of my daughters and my son-in-law for brunch.
Lots of Tequila and a bag of limes on hand for later when we will be remembering our own Dead Dads.
My birth father died in a road accident 10 days before I was born, June 16 is my late Step-Dad's birthday and also the date of my Father-in-Law's passing seven years ago so we will be having a drink to them all.

Guess I'm lucky. Tasha and her other half made the effort to come over even though they are on tour in Back to Broadway. And James and his inamorata took time off to come over as well. Fabulous meal for the 6 of us in the local Lebanese restaurant, wine and good company. Very happy day. Thanks kids.

Went to Bridlington with wife n twins ate some fish n chips, played on a few sluts.... oooops slots. Came back to the caravan then played with twins in the sun. Mrs Ben was beverage logistics quality control working at 2 cph (cans per hour)

Why is fathers day on a different date in Aust? early Sept here.

All 7 (5 natural, 2 step) of my kids either wished my happy fathers day or happy birthday or both by text or phone or facebook, 2 of them both send a card for each and one of them rang yesterday, the other today.

Davem wrote: Why is fathers day on a different date in Aust? early Sept here.

It goes back to the postage delay between Britain and Oz.
Originally both dates were the same.

It used to take about 15 months to sail to the Antipodes in the 18th century. Fact.
When the burglars, bread thieves, prostitutes and murderers wanted to send cards to their familial former cellmates who had already been transported to Oz, in order to establish the Australian Nation.....they would arrive late.
So the date was moved to September down under, so cards would arrive on the right day, but a year and a bit late.

Hope this helps.