To ask what you and your OH love to do together.....just the two of you?

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Just wondering how other couples spend quality time together. What do you do?

Our kids are older now and he and I love to go on long rambles with our dogs. We explore public footpaths in surrounding villages with flasks and all weather picnics. We love spotting wildlife, particularly birds of prey. We're gone hours!

Also, our work allows us the odd weekday hour to go back to bed! In the middle of the day!

We're so rock and roll!

We go to David Lloyd in the spa, watch crap tv (big brother/im a celeb) out to play pool and for yummy food.

Perfect Saturday (and what I spent my honeymoon doing!): wake up in a lovely hotel with lovely breakfast, wander round in robe and go for a swim, out for nandos, put some football bets on and watch the scores come in, read trashy magazines drink prosecco and get ready for the night, go to Nottingham greyhound stadium and win a heap of cash, go to Nottingham casino and lose said heap of cash, come back to hotel with a Burger King

This is a lovely thread.

Couple time is very thin on the ground these days.

We go on bike rides. Or wild swimming.

Just started doing YouTube yoga videos after kiddie-bedtime. (Not sure how often we'll have the energy for this. Autumn is approaching)

When tired (often) we share a beer in front of a Walter Presents box set.

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Only a week to go this year but it's every year July-Sep, a different concert every night. Mostly classical but also stuff like swing and jazz nights and this year they did a performance of Oklahoma (sung though not acted, it's not set up to be a theatre really).

You have to stand up or sit on the floor for the cheap tickets but that's part of the fun. it's worth it just to be in the Albert Hall.

Decant your wine into a flask though, they won't let you in if they can see alcohol in the bag search and it's £££ from the Albert Hall bars

We're currently reading Alan Partridge books to each other at bedtime and doing the funny voices.

We always an American political type drama on the go.

Nights away in cheap seaside towns. Coffee and hot donuts on the beach for breakfast.

We also talk about work a lot as we work together. Endless speculation about colleagues is always fun!

Bathing together. So lovely.

I read a lot and DH is endlessly patient while I tell him all about them.

These are really heartwarming to read

We lay next to each other in bed and play angry birds on our phones

We talk a lot. Can spend hours talking about anything and everything. Love going to new places with him. He's great to travel with. And sex. We still have fun there too. We did it over the workbench in the garage last week.

If we're DS free, there's nothing we love more than walking to our fab, small-ish local, parking our arses at the corner of the bar and chewing the fat. We have a long running "issue" and have been (and still going through) testing times-that takes the bulk of our conversation usually. But we also people watch and put far too much money in the juke box

We don't have much time alone and only on rare occasions do we have childcare outside of school times, but on weekend evenings, we watch tv, have a few drinks (well, one of us does, I'm pregnant at the moment) and have dinner together. On those rare days we can get a babysitter, we go to our local pub for drinks and dinner. That's about as exciting as it gets. Pre-kids though, we did a lot of rambling as well, food festivals, weekends away, etc. I suspect one day we'll be able to leave the house alone again more regularly.

We like going on long walks to places of interest with our dogs and usually end up in either a cafe or pub.
We also have favourite indie shops which is rather an exciting day out - a Chocolatier and a brilliant butcher/baker for example.
Watch box sets.
Go to gigs and beer festivals.
Gym or swimming followed by sauna and steam.
Spend most weekends or at least overnight at our holiday cottage.
We ask each other quiz questions.

Mostly it involves music. We both love rock and metal so gigs, going to the pub to watch covers bands, watching YouTube videos until stupidly late and drinking too much. We are working through NCIS box sets and our guilty pleasure is watching Coronation Street. When we can we go on days out to castles and National Trust places or the Zoo.

We eat duck and pancakes and baked Camembert cheese and watch box sets under blankets. It usually ends with me falling asleep while we cuddle on the sofa. Best sleep ever

We used to go to the theatre once or twice a week but then we bought a house and I got pregnant so that's rather slowed down! But we still like to go as often as we can. Also board games, walks on the beach, watch cookery shows / history documentaries, road trips, cinema, pub visits, swimming, home interiors, anything even vaguely Christmassy and a whole bunch of endless nattering on the sofa / in the car / in bed. Our ideal weekend day is breakfast in bed with an episode of a nice warm comedy (Parks and Recreation at the moment), sex, a walk or a swim, coffee out, an afternoon classic movie and then a night on the sofa with a bottle of Prosecco or two and old music videos - but I suspect that will change just a tad once the baby arrives...!

Also in the 5 years we've been together we've moved house three times, got married, moved countries, got 4 new jobs between us, bought a house, got pregnant, lost a baby, and got pregnant again - so we've always had a project of some kind to work on!

Oh and we play video games but only together - so either multi-player or DH plays and I help while doing sewing / crochet.

We go to karaoke bars and sing. This will put me.

OUT me.

We get drunk and watch shit reality tv, dp is going to be so confused next time when I bring out the connect 4. Go to the park and people watch, we take it in turns to cook breakfast in bed every couple of weeks.

We travel up and down the country and abroad Northern Souling!

@Ansumpasty Love that.

We take Wednesdays off and go for long walks, usually on the beach, with our dogs.
We're very partial to a National Trust property especially if we can have tea and share a scone with clotted cream.
We've recently discovered that we both love going to see an opera.
We love Masterchef.
We're ace at pub quizzes.
We love driving about the countryside looking for a garden to visit.

We like to lie in bed and flick through the vintage music channels and challenge each other to name the song/artist/year of release.

We go for a quick drink in our favourite when I pick him up from work if there's time before DS' afterschool club finishes.

I stay in the kitchen and talk to him while he's cooking.

We go away together to gigs and things overnight a fair bit but lying in bed with the music channels beats that hands down!

We take long RV trips. We take long 'Sunday drives', not always on a Sunday. We watch 'true crime' shows and try to solve the crime together. We attend anti-Trump rallies and support our local Democratic Party activities.

All I can think of is going for brunch, going to the cinema, and watching Netflix. Reading everyone else's replies...I feel sad. We don't talk a lot, and we're both on our phones too much. It's not great, is it?

Not much time alone. Occassionally might have a sneaky day off together, while DC at school, do lunch out and go to the cinema. Bliss

I am feeling left out but maybe only people who do nice couple things have posted! Have all your children left home or do you have very accommodating grand parents? I am looking forward to doing lots of these in the future( could probably manage the shit faced connect four sooner!!)

We walk
We swim in the sea and rivers/lakes
We go to cinema and have meals out
We garden a little
We have European city breaks a few times a year
We go to concerts
We go to church