Suggestions please for stuff to do alone

[Leesifer]

I'm now so fed up with myself for doing nothing most weekends, with the excuse that I've worked all week, so doing nothing is a good thing. It's not. It's very boring.

So, it's too late this weekend because for me Saturday is nearly over and it's Mother's Day tomorrow, so I'm at my parents.

My list so far:

Cinema
Restaurant (with Kindle because I get bored just staring around)
Art Gallery/Museum
Walk the Embankment with my camera because I do love London.

So, any suggestions are very welcome.

[slimshady2357]

Theatre
Bingo!

[Miisa]

Originally Posted by Leesifer

Restaurant (with Kindle because I get bored just staring around)

Oh, they will think you are a restaurant critic!

How about a weekend getaway to a major city? Oh, right.

If I lived in London I would be in the Natural History Museum a lot.

And I second cinema, is/as you can get to one easily (I can't).

[Leesifer]

Oh wait! Weekend breaks to European cities is also an option. Thanks Miisa.

This is since my recent trip for work, where I realised I can actually meet and get on with people I don't see every day and am quite happy on my own wandering around.

It's made me realise how much of a rut I was in.

[Vivisectus]

Look at google map for local wildlife parks and go exploring - for me that can be the most fun you can have with all my clothes on.

[livius drusus]

Victoria Revealed opens March 26 at Kensington Palace. It's supposed to be fairly salacious, as these things go.

[thedoc]

I would think there is a concert somewhere, and some may be free.

[Leesifer]

Wait!

Will you maybe expect some sort of update/photos for your History Blog?

show spoiler

Please say yes

ETA! @lmus

[LadyShea]

Play tourist and write reviews for us (or for public consumption). Pick a place to go to each weekend, take the tour and lots of nice photos and write a little article. You live in a magical place full of stuff to keep us history nerds adrool, and maybe you'll see something new even! I do this kind of thing (go see local stuff)myself when I start to take where I live for granted.

PS: all of my pictures from Hampton Court are on one of two borked harddrives, so that would be a welcome photo-review

Maybe liv will let you write a guest post even!

[livius drusus]

HELL. YES.

[ZEZOZE]

well...you could post at ff.

[Janet]

Theater is definitely my first choice, but I like the tourist reports idea, too. I'm a Wars of the Roses nerds, so any cool historical places related to that you could get pictures of would make me very happy.

Also, day trip to Brighton. The last time I spent a week in London I took the train to Brighton on the Saturday and loved it. Brighton is awesome.

[Ymir's blood]

So many replies and nothing dirty?

Forum... I am disappoint.

[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by Leesifer

Oh wait! Weekend breaks to European cities is also an option. Thanks Miisa.

Apartments and B&Bs in Rome, Florence, Venice, Paris, Barcelona, London, Lisbon & Istanbul

[Qingdai]

Shouldn't you be researching where you're going to take ES? Get on it Lees!

[Leesifer]

Oh please, I know exactly what to do with ES. And it will stay a secret just like our Vegas trip.

[Contrapposto]

I had a blast the other day visiting our Botanical Gardens. This is the season for conservatories to bring in butterflies from around the world and I imagine London has quite a few greenhouses in need of pollination.

Since England has no butterflies it would be a real treat.

ETA: This is a Demipost. I need to check my login. I wish my laptop would hurry home.

[Doctor X]

IMPOASTER!!1!!

--J.D.

[ceptimus]

Since England has no butterflies it would be a real treat.

Eh? We have loads of butterflies here, though it's a bit early in the year yet for most of them.

I don't know how you could think that. We don't have any hummingbirds here - maybe that is what confused you?

[ceptimus]

Oh - suggestions

How about going to watch and listen to an orchestra play? That can be pretty great - especially if it's something you've not done before.

[The Man]

Originally Posted by ceptimus

Eh? We have loads of butterflies here, though it's a bit early in the year yet for most of them.

I don't know how you could think that. We don't have any hummingbirds here - maybe that is what confused you?

In-joke at the expense of Sophiareign.

As for stuff to do alone - fuck knows. I'm still working on that myself. Mostly I've been playing games and ripping my vinyl collection to my computer lately.

[thedoc]

Originally Posted by Ymir's blood

So many replies and nothing dirty?

Forum... I am disappoint.

A do it yourself kit?

[freemonkey]

Architecture (castles, cathedrals, cottages) tours (to maybe kind of go along with the history tours).

beachcombing for cool, awesome ancient Roman stuff and liv can make you my Secret Santa so you can send it all to me.

Take a class doing something you never thought you would do.

Hike the moors and paint pictures of sheep and heather among the hedgerows.

[livius drusus]

Oh ya moors and hedgerows. You're English. You need to do that shit.

[LadyShea]

I was just reading the travel writings of Mary Kingsley, and found an essay about the unusual number of Victorian British female travel writers (considering the roles and expectations of women at the time).

You should write tourist spot reviews in Victorian