What do you do with your friends?

[Thatsajokeright]

After a decade of being in the trenches of small-child-care and poor health I'd like to start being more social again.

I've lost friendships over the last few years because I just didn't have the capacity to keep them up.

Anyway, I have a few 'mum' friends but I'd like to move out of that sphere a little bit but I've no idea what I could suggest I do with my friends!

All I can think of is going to a book club together or the pub but I'm not keen on the pub...

Drinking and running mainly

Excercise classes, eating out, dog walks, cinema, campervanning and going to the pub.

I’m not a big drinker either and I don’t have any Mum friends, especially with kiddos off to uni soon. With my friends, we go to dinner or brunch, go to see bands, do a weekly bar trivia (pub quiz) with DPs. One friend and I go to pottery and craft workshops together, visit at each other’s houses and sit in the backyard with drinks and snacks. I live in a major city though, so there’s always something going on to do.

Meals out, coffee, going to talks, art exhibitions, exercise classes, cinema, theatre, day trips, holidays.

We go to brunch or dinner but the last time I pulled out as it's always to the same place and I don't get the obsession with it, think the food is boring, mediocre and expensive.

Others I go to lunch or for a drink with.

I actually miss having the one friend (it's complicated and not sure me and him were just friends) that I used to meet for coffee at a local park, and go to the cinema with. It was nice to do something like that.

I don't have many local friends that I can just pop round to, most live at least an hour away. I work 2 hours away too. Not sure how to meet anyone either.

Hiking, going out for dinner, game with online mates, coffees and scrabble.

Mostly coffee/tea in a cafe, or a walk if weather is nice. Occasionally a restaurant or theatre. Very occasionally a trip away.

Have done bike rides together in the past but it’s not that sociable if biking on roads as single file. Exercise same, I can’t chat while running or working out!

Exhibitions, concerts, films, festivals, climbing or hiking. I have one friend who shares my enthusiasm for finding out of the way holy wells, and some others I tend to do literary pilgrimages with (that sounds more glamorous than it is — it’s often a matter of trying to find a grave in an overgrown cemetery, or identifying a house). I have several artist friends and sometimes get involved in research or making things if what they’re doing interests me too — one is interested in traditional practices, and we did a lot of trying out using plants to make dyes together, which was fascinating, if messy.

Meals out, brunches, lunches and dinners.

Coffees out.

Walks or the gym.

Sometimes I host a group.

We have two couples we play board games with occassionally.

My friends like to go to events, but I don't. Anyway that's another option that doesn't involve drinking.

Lunch, dinner or coffee.

Book club - so essentially just meeting up for a drink/coffee but with a 'focus' so conversation doesn't stray into children.

Pub quiz.

Exercise classes.

Poetry evening - painfully cringe but absolutely hilarious.

Adult craft nights and workshops.

Concerts.

Dog walks - for those with dogs obviously.

Theatre, Walks, go shopping.

Weekend lunch, walks, gallery visit, birdwatching, depending which friends

Exercise I do with friends: walking, swimming, kayaking, yoga, cycling, weight training, jogging/training for a 5k or 5 mile run locally

Visits: theatre, cinema, art and museum exhibitions, gigs, comedy clubs, flower shows, talks and book readings/signings

Activities: crafting workshops; cooking demos; acting lessons

Catch ups: coffees, drinks, lunches, dinners at our or out together.

I'm not very sporty or very crafty but have enjoyed all of this with friends. I'd far rather be on a walk or lifting weights with a mate than sitting slugging back booze and moaning about life.

Pub, board games, cards in the winter. When the weather is good we sometimes go for bike rides, hikes, barbecues and occasional camping weekend (with lots of booze).

Lunch, dog walk at park and coffee, meet up at petting zoo type of place with DGC.

Concerts
Shows
Meals out
Bbq at ours
We take turns cooking meals at our houses

Other friends, play tennis, coffee out, walk dogs, WI

I'm not much help. All I do with my friends is meet in various coffee shops. An occasional lunch in a pub.

What is this strange word "friends" that you speak of? 😕

I see (a small number of friends!) at yoga, the gym, coffee/the occasional lunch, and dog walks together.

Boozing and eating, as I've got older a Sunday lunch with wine has replaced Friday nights out

Cinema or walks. Love do a concert but find people dont commit. Its hard. So I forget about it then.

Pubs (even though some don't drink), coffee shops, brunch, dog walks (I don't have a dog but goes with those that do), pub quiz, cinema, theatre, meals out, meet up at eg NT places, exercise classes and chat after. Also I do some volunteering and that is quite sociable, I am also in a book club.

My friend and I once spent ages trying to find Karl Marx and then discovered we were in the wrong cemetery (this is v early days of internet so were going on hearsay as to where he was).

I don't much like the pub (I don't drink and there's only so many lime and sodas I can drink!), but a particular group of my friends often meets there, so I do go along sometimes. We often play dominos; I know, it's a bit rock 'n' roll

Otherwise, with a smaller group or one on one, I'll go to dinner/lunch/brunch, have coffee and cake, go to the cinema/theatre/exhibitions. Walks sometimes, or the park with a picnic or coffee. And I'll have people over to dinner or for cake/go to theirs for same, rather than going out, sometimes.

In the past a group of us used to do 'day trips' to NT places, gardens, beaches etc, but that's pretty much gone by the wayside in recent years. I think a combo of Covid, people getting into relationships and/or moving away, and people's health has done for it. Which is a pity.

Meals, coffees, shopping, cinema, occasional days out with one of friend’s DHC, occasional day in London.

I try and alternate between a low cost activity and a more expensive one such as a meal out.