Learner Dad: 'We had this weird notion that if our kids saw us drinking, they’d become alcoholics by the age of seven'

MY Inner puritan didn’t like one of the playgrounds at the new Center Parcs in Longford. (Just so you know, ourselves and the kids got a two-night stay for free, which is a bit of a laugh because I’m about as influential as Theresa May.)

When I saw the play area was next to the pub, I turned to my wife and said, “Handy isn’t it, the mom and dad can get half-cut while the kids run around”, in my best Inner Puritan Voice. Then we sat outside and skulled a bottle of wine while the kids got stuck into a climbing wall.