Scarred by his military father’s decision to disguise a reconnaissance trip searching for an IRA training camp as a father and son bonding experience, Patrick Freyne gets some of his own back for this exercise in ‘child induced counter terrorism’ in his hilarious, best-selling book of essays, OK Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea. In fairness the jokes (and they are truly excellent) are mostly on Patrick himself as he musters his self-deprecating style in an assault on some of the less blindingly brilliant ideas he has come up with in the course of ‘a life less ordinary’.
