12 new things to do in 2022

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I'm looking for something new to try each month next year. They don't have to be big things but I need to do something for me after a very difficult break up. Any ideas gratefully received.

I'm going to go rollerskating, and also to an Ice Hockey match if that helps?

I'm going to join the WI!

Birdwatching.

I'm going to learn how to eat with chopsticks. Properly.

Good idea. So far I've got:
Join the WI
Take up tap dancing!
Volunteering
Join a book group
Learn to knit and / or crochet
Research my family tree

Snowboarding

Thought of another one;
Learn to cook a few more 'go to' recipes to stop me sticking to the usual trusted ones - maybe work my way through a new vegetarian / vegan cook book.

Bake/cook a favourite dish?
A certain diy job that you haven’t done before and needs doing?
Watercolours?

Also, see an Opera, and Ballet.
(At the cinema, most do one off showings of them).

what a lovely idea!

-Going to a concert? (I’ve never heard Four seasons live before and thought it would push me to try different things)

• a virtual reality experience (they do some in Camden/battersea)
• climb a mountain (snowden/scaffell pike)
• cookery/baking course
• pottery class
• learning to knit and donating hats for neonatal units
• read a classic book (I’ve just downloaded middlemarch)

Anything that makes you smile.. just do it! I hope the new year brings you hope and happiness 😊

Learn some basic sign language

• Join a 'just for fun' community choir / dance class / amdram group / Toastmasters etc
• buy a cookbook and cook your way through it, share with friends / neighbours / family
• cross stitch / felting / life drawing
• do a tourist attraction / tour in your own area
• personal stylist appt at department store / dramatic change in hair
• 6 sessions of therapy or coaching
• volunteer at a food bank
• something pampery you don't regularly do (nails? Massage? Professional make up?)

Geocaching

A week where you only eat vegan, or maybe vegetarian if you’re a big meat eater currently

Dry ski slope beginners lesson

Cook something from scratch you usually but or have never cooked. I was pleased with myself when I made a Bakewell tart!

Cook something from a cuisine you don’t usually. Eg Jewish, Mexican, Russian etc etc

Make sushi

Do a YouTube exercise class. Loads and loads for free.

Yoga with Adrianne is often recommended on here (on YouTube too).

Download a stargazing app and do some stargazing. You can get ones which as you move around your device it show you exactly what you should be looking at

Join a beach clean-up.
Start a blog.
Repair a bike puncture.
Wild swim.
Indoor sky dive.
Attend a public lecture.
Join a political party.

This was my 2020 New Years resolution. Do something exciting and new every month. It didn’t work out as I’d hoped....

Fire walking/ other hippie shite.
Festival
Glamping or wild camping or other overnight adventure (maybe by canoe/big walk-in-walk-out).
Water ski/ sailing/ white water rafting / abseiling/ climbing wall/ ice skating/ etc lesson(s)
Fly fishing or birdwatching or something quiet and “in nature”
Solo canoe or kayak trip or longer distance walk somewhere a bit wilder.
Craft - eg knit a jumper or felt a picture or embroider something or pottery or learn to arrange flowers or whatever.
Run a 5k / 10k/ marathon.
Something to improve your living space - eg redo part of garden, or grow a pot or window box from seed, or repaint a room, or insulate the loft of whatever.
Keep a diary
Learn a musical instrument (ukelele? Something straightforward and not too expensive).
Learn to cook a new cuisine or bake or whatever.

Have a holiday in a day-visit a town close to you,visit it’s museums etc,eat at a nice restaurant buy a souvenir-pretend you are abroad!

Great thread

Go for a meal somewhere you've always wanted to try, on your own.

Learn to read music
Learn to play a musical instrument eg recorder
Learn to swim, or learn to dive
Eat food from a different country for a weekend, try Polish or Swedish
Learn to juggle

Axe throwing

Ds and I are trying vegetarianism for January. Veganuary doesn't appeal but a month of no meat (or less meat) seems doable.

Go to the theatre alone. It's great!

Cook a new type of cuisine eg Thai or Moroccan

I'm buying a bike. Haven't had one for 20 years

Brilliant ideas, thank you all!