Learner Dad: A 20km limit would allow us to broaden our horizons with a trip to Kinsale

We did McDonald's and a bunch of other things to make up for a cancelled birthday party that our son didn’t want anyway

A view of the Marina and Yacht Club in Kinsale, Co Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

I’m glad our son decided he didn’t really want ‘a party’ for his birthday last week. (Happy birthday you magic little man.)

The ‘party’ is one that’s evolved during lockdown, where you bring a few party bags to the playground and hand them out to the birthday boy or girl’s friends once they’ve finished running around shooting each other with Nerf guns. It doesn’t involve any meet-ups that wouldn’t have happened anyway, it’s just the usual crowd of kids and parents that head to the playground across the road from the school for an hour after pick-up.