What is your favourite FREE thing to do in summer?

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Mine was walking to the shop barefoot and pretending I was going to fetch supplies for my family in the scorching heat in the desert. The old chewing gum used to melt and turn squishy is it was hot enough and I used to squish it with my toes.

Another was going to the river and jumping from one side to the other.

There was a broken tree which all the neighbour kids used to 'live' on and we would go to 'eachothers houses' on the different branches.

basically living in the shallow river.

Going to the coast and going for a walk. Living in Kent, we have a lot of beaches to choose from.

That would be lovely. We are about 2 hours away from nearest beach so never ever go.
River Bank served as a beach for us

Beach days, lucky to live on the coast and have quiet beaches.

Sit in the garden with a book and wine and pretend that I'm on holiday somewhere sunny.

Going to the beach, or taking a picnic lunch to the moor, spending all day there lying in the sun and exploring all the streams and patches of gorse, and any prehistoric stuff, like ruins of roundhouse, stone circles, burials that might be around.

Crabbing. (Not 100% free because you need a crab line). It is one of my fondest memories of childhood.

Ooh, crabbing! We used to do it with a safety pin tied to string/cotton. (after DB got the hook from a real line stuck in his leg)

Love going crabbing and also lucky enough to live by the coast, so beach days were/are always lovely.
When my children were younger, we used to pack up a picnic and get on a train to London (kids went for £1 and with a friends and family railcard, it cost me about £20 all in, so not free but a fairly cheap day out) and we'd sit on the South bank and watch the street entertainers or hop on the tube and wander around Covent Garden, Borough Market, Camden lock etc. Used to love our London days out.

Just pottering around the garden snaffling ripe berries with DD, or letting her water everything. Or going to a park nearby that has fountains/water. Not totally free but the sheer joy of an ice cream, any ice cream, is another with young kids.

We used to have a pond locally with a rope swing over it that we used to splash about in.

I also remember going to a local pub with a beer garden that had a grassy bank - all the kids used to roll down it repeatedly (and get in trouble if we had white clothes on)

Caravan holidays with the grandparents were good fun too...out in the sun all day, back for a shower then out to "the embassy club" on the caravan site for the evening cabaret.

not me but me with the kids when they were younger.....geocaching.....would take us for miles, end up scratched, nettle skins,filthy....but got to get those caches!!

addictive and they still ask for us to go now in their twenties!! dp also enjoys it and our toddler (back then) used to get involved

www.geocaching.com

*stings

@gardeninggirl68 oh yes we used to do that but found all of the local ones