Saturday afternoons

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What do you do on a Saturday afternoon if you're in your 50s, older kids (so no running kids about).

I've spent today reading the papers and doing a tiny bit of housework and half watching some TV but it just seems so boring!

Walked the dog, wandered to the shops for a paper, lay on the settee under a blanket and had a snooze...

53 but have a dc 10 so still doing the running around!!

Today it was a wander to our local italian for a nice late lunch and bottle of red

Shopping and housework in the morning

Pub and a nice meal in the afternoon and evening

Those all sound lovely! Mine was nice but I feel I should be doing "stuff" not sitting about!

Depends on the weather.
A beautiful autumnal sunny day here - I'd have loved to have had a 10+ mile walk and then pint of ale and maybe some food in a country pub. Maybe a bit of reading after.

With a heavy toddler who can't walk very far and a 5 Yold.d who can manage only a few miles (working on this!) we had a very short walk and had to work around naps and fussy eating requirements!

I am occasionally still running older teen DC around but other than that shopping, gardening, jobs around the house, allotment, errands, go to the football, day trip out somewhere, visit parents. Parkrun in the morning.

Reading this feeling very envious as a parent of a 2 year old 😂

For the first half of my 50s I'd be going with teenage dd to do watersports most Saturdays May till early October.
Winter (and all year since she went to uni/left home) usually some sort of walk or visit somewhere if weather is ok, followed by gardening. Bad weather cooking, catch up on housework, work through some of the ironing pile while listening to the radio

53 here. Had a builder here, again, this morning doing stuff. I did some crafting (I volunteer for a charity and that's what the crafty bits are for).

After the builder had gone, I had a 30m nap on the settee and then did some batch cooking and tidying up.

35 weeks pregnant with a 2 and 4 year old
We all pottered in the garden / cut the grass , went to the park which is very close the. Walked into town for early
Pizza express for tea :)

55 - went into town with a friend for a mooch and coffee. That's a fairly usual Saturday afternoon.

Listen to Radio 2 with Mark Goodier then Ryland.

Saturdays now are for dog walks, workouts, maybe a pub lunch, gardening, reading, pottering, little snooze. Both DCs are now at uni so it's a big change, trying to turn the empty-nestness into positive stuff. Last weekend was a big gig on the Sat and Radio 2 party in the park on the Sunday. Time for me/us again!

I'm 52. Today I've done a supermarket shop, done some work (at home) and been to my village beer festival!

Dapme it’s “ Rylan” - love his radio show!

58 with DD15 (she tells us all the time that she’s moving out at 16). I work some Saturdays. On my free days, I like going to places like Farmers Markets & carboots.

DS has gone to a uni open day with DH. Dd went to a 3 hour drama class so I spent some time at the gym and did a bit of gardening. Then we looked at some holiday options.

@Spenditlikebeckham Me too! Feel like I’m getting life wrong, somehow!

Shopping
stuff to do in the house or garden
going for a walk or some NT/EH place
DH has his model train
I read
having naps

And - spending hours on the motorway to look at university open days with DD, doing a joint hobby with DD every couple of weeks.

Well, today was Heritage Day so loads to see and do.

Some weeks I go and watch football.

Sometimes I'll go for a bit of a hike.

Sometimes I'll catch up with admin for my volunteering.

Today we had a slowish start (for us) awake at 8.15 and then I made homemade waffles with maple syrup and bacon for breakfast. Food delivery arrived then DS and DH went off to a country show with grandma and grandad and I went to get my nails done. I got some nice sushi from Waitrose and ate it sitting in the garden, then hoovered the house and made a lemon drizzle cake. Realised that the bloody washing machine had broken, had to order another one to collect tomorrow as both DH and I are working every day next week, have no time to book a repairman/get one delivered until next weekend and DS needs uniform clean for Monday and all the bedding needs doing 🤣 they got home, I watched a couple of episodes of something then we all had dinner. Tomorrow I’ve got a rehearsal all afternoon so was nice to potter at home. I’m a teacher and my ‘new term resolution’ is to only book things to do on one day of the weekend each week. I am completely unable to cope otherwise!

DCs both went to friends' houses for the afternoon, which is very unusual. DH and I spent it gardening. Lovely early evening drinks in the sun, then dinner with one DC and the other is now home too. Perfect afternoon - considering I've sent plenty of time with the DC this week, it was nice to have a grown up afternoon.

Oh really? So I've got little ones at home and I'm reading this thinking it's all going so fast. That I had decades before them and will have decades after to have a lie in, pub lunch and potter about every Saturday afternoon.

Saturday morning is always spent watching DS2 play football. Apart from that, it's mainly dog walking, going to the gym, and gardening. Sometimes a day out with friends.