Does anyone enjoy sitting in the garden rather than going out on hot days?

My garden is a mess so not relaxing- hope to sort it out a bit tomorrow.

I live close to the beach and I go most days. I can travel light to beach - book, towel, water - and then retreat home for home comfort when I'm done. It's really life changing great to be able to do this.

What's the point in having a dog and barking yourself?

Garden all the way. Otherwise, just get a flat or house without one and go to a park etc enjoy nice weather - it will save yourself the bother and expense of the upkeep.

I love to sit on my patio reading with a cup of tea / glass of wine, depending on the time of day. Unfortunately my next door neighbours have two EXTREMELY NOISY BOYS (aged about 8 and 6) who yell and shout all the fricking time. And the parents yell at them too. The other day I was woken up to the sound of Dad shouting "just get in the fucking car!".

I love sitting in the garden, I miss the DC being little when they were happy to sit tipping water about or playing with cars outside.
Now they only really want to hoof a ball about and if they can't do that they go on screens.
I'm childfree this weekend so am relaxing in the shade enjoying the peace. The only thing spoiling it is the pong from whatever the farm has spread on the fields wafting about.

Pottering sounds way too much like housework but in the garden to me. I do not potter.
I prefer to be in the garden on hot sunny days - everywhere else is rammed, I don’t want to drive an hour to the beach to have to spend another hour queueing to park to then squeeze onto a crowded beach only
to not be able to swim in the sea cos it’s fucking freezing!
I love the beach when it’s cold, not so much in the U.K. sun.
Garden for me today but it’s being renovated and I’m injured so I’m just sitting with my book and the listening to the sounds around me, was going to move to the lounger but the clouds have arrived so I guess summer is over 😂

I like the idea of the garden but I'm currently listening to next door watching peppa pig on the iPad and having a FaceTime conversation, someone using an axle grinder, someone hammering, a jet washer, several lawnmowers and hedge strummers ... and the people who have gone out instead of potter have all left their dogs in the garden barking at all the above people. And I've just had to go in and close all the windows for the billowing smoke from garden fires as no one will pay the new garden bin tax.

I love pottering in my garden. All the plants I have chosen are bee/ pollinator friendly and many are scented.
I have a lovely seating area surrounded by these plants and to sit there with eyes closed on the lounger, breathing in the scent and listening to the distant buzz of hover flies and bees is unrivalled.
Prosecco or home made cocktail to hand !

2 adults....we've been to a local market town this morning...coffee and a mooch..then for a pint.
Now home about to sit out....having told next doors builders to pack it in 🤣

A bit of both.
But I can't sit and relax in my own garden without thinking of things that need doing. I'm on holiday today so we've been for a glorious walk this morning, and are now back at our accommodation to chill out for a bit. Well, DH is chilling on the bed, I'm basking in the sun!

3 small children and 100-% garden. All the toys, hose, paddling pool, suncream, changes of clothes, able to come immediately when hot, loos, snacks, drinks.

they don’t ever seem to tire of it either as it’s such a novelty to have it so beautiful in the UK. No need to go out at all and everyone has a great time.

I would love nothing more than to sit in garden, snooze I’m the hammock and go in when I am too hot.

but DH is currently putting together his new bike so we can all go for a “fun” family bike ride. And I’ve just had to go to Argos to get a pump for it and know that it is swarming with people out there and too hot for such things. But he’s been at the bike an hour so I can’t really say that 🙄

I am not of the mind set that i have to be out every weekend doing something. I love being in my home or garden with just the sound of the waves, the birds and the coo's and sheep.

Was happily pottering until the local farmer decided to have a huge bonfire. Git. Had to go inside and close all the windows. Really quite grumpy tbh.

One of my neighbours has been out with a mower and a strimmer

Since 11.30. I've come inside now as the noise is annoying even with earplugs

That sounds perfect !

@MadKittenWoman has my day mapped out! Husband returned from errands to post office and shop with a bonus couple of beers🍻 and snacks to me after I've done three loads of washing, bed changed and grass mown... (before the comments start, he had open heart surgery last year, and I love our petrol lawnmower, you just hang on tight and point it in the right direction...😂)

Blissfully pottering now for the rest of the day/evening.

Home and garden on a hot day. Love it. Water the plants, put the umbrella up, get a beer and read the paper. It would be amazing if one of my neighbours hadn't been either jetwashing or using a wood chipper for bloody hours.

I go nowhere unless necessary when it is hot. I have always hated the heat, I get prickly heat and burn easily, so it is probably just as well I live in Scotland.

We have a north facing living room with patio doors out to the north facing garden so we get shade most of the day.

Only time we go out when it is really hot is if we are going somewhere indoors or when we had the dog we would walk in dense woods where it is cool.

Absolutely adore a hot day and putting in plants, 🌴🌵🌱🌿🍀🌾 Having an Aperol, ice cream and nibbles whenever I want! Perfection 👌🍀😜💕🌴🥂😁

My garden always, my artwork of flowers, selection of tasty veg (possibly) and battlefield with slugs, caterpillars, sun,rain and frost and the best shade under my leafing tree.

Home and garden everytime. All I can hear atm are birds and cows. It’s bliss. I don’t want to see or hear other people or their dogs and children when it’s nice weather.

Sounds divine

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Hanging in my garden this beautiful weekend! 😁

Bit of gardening, bit of sunbathing, bit of drinking, more gardening, more sunbathing, more drinking, on repeat until barbecue for dinner.