Please can you all tell me what you do with your evenings being single?

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Also weekends?
I need some inspiration.
My dcs are teens and like to do their own thing most of the time.
I would love to hear what you do that makes you happy to be single.

My life has become a bit boring as I started a new, very demanding job so I've cut down on going out. But on a week evening I might meet a friend for a local walk. On Friday I might go to the pub it a bar with a friend for early evening drinks and on a Saturday I might go to the cinema with a friend or in my own. I also like to meet friends in the centre of town for dinner who don't live local to me. I'm a big fan of long walks and galleries so that's also something I do at the weekend. I'm also thinking of joining a choir - I was in one for a while and loved it.

I sleep in (and diagonally :) )

I netflix binge. I go to the movies/for cocktails with friends. I read. I teach myself new things like foreign languages (or chess atm). I've also retaken up video games this past three years or so and can't fathom why I ever stopped. I suppose it's like reading though, you go through phases of reading a ton and then you might not pick up a book for 6 months lol.

Also trying to write my own book atm.

If I had a garden I'd probably spend a lot of time out there I'd imagine. Ditto if there was a beach nearby.

Place marking . I always imagine everyone else having a wonderful time while I sit alone with the tv and a glass of wine .
I just can't motivate myself though . I don't have many friends as I moved house and area . I would like to take something up to get me out but don't know what plus shift work makes anything difficult to commit to . I had been trying online dating but it's making me feel sadder and lonlier.

Been different since Covid. Rarely go out for the evening ( but I live very rural so have to travel miles to anything)
Weekends might go to a garden centre or occasional boot sale. Gardening, Sometimes go to an art/ craft workshop. Look around antique shops if I’ve driven to nearest town.
Evenings are TV, internet, knitting. Chatting with distant friends on F/time.

Watch crap tv without anyone complaining.

Crochet.

Read.
Crochet.

Sometimes I Crochet.

Yoga, swimming, aquafit, language class, housework and laundry, gardening, museums and art galleries, walks, the beach, hair cut, car clean, catch up with friends, watch TV, read, MN, Tinder. I guess I could do dating, if anyone ever agreed to meet.

Nice! Thankyou!
I have moved house/area too. Still commute to dcs school.
I don't have any friends. I have a couple I keep in touch via messaging. One, I meet up with everyone couple of months for coffee.
I do like my own company. I need to find things fulfilling. I don't want to date any time soon (I rememberhow horribleit was). Newly single after realising it wasn't meant to be. Not that I saw him a great deal.
Anyone have the meet up app? I have just downloaded it but nothing in my area. I like the thought of it but I'm not confident enough to actually join anyway. I wish I was.

I meant *close friends as such.

Swinging and casual sex via Fabswingers website, always plenty of offers to choose from!

Gym 3/4 times a week, going for walks, reading, mindless tv/ interneting. On payday I get a takeaway or sometimes go for dinner. The odd date.

It’s fine and I’m usually busy but tbh it is lonely. MeetUp etc is my idea of hell- I don’t like small talk.

Play video game, read, write (and go to classes etc related to that), see friends, odd date, Meetup, Netflix, annoy the cats, gardening

Whatever I want. Drink gin on the sofa. Watch TV. Go to the cinema or out for meals with friends.

I love it with teens and being single. Coming up to 5 months now. On a weekday evening I sometimes watch netflix (but I love love love not being stuck in front of a telly every night now ex has gone), watch a film with my teens, go to bed early and MN, read books, go for sunset walks with an audio book.

Me and one set of friends sometimes do a come dine with me and go to each others, but we're all a bit shit at keeping the commitment up.

Sometimes go to the local pub with a friend.

Sometimes go to another friends house with small dc that have an early bedtime. We fake tan each other and drink tea and complain about the world.

I've started watching a lot of youtube. I never did before but I'm on a bit of a healing journey so watch lots of trauma based things. It's good for me personally and professionally. Talks from leaders in the field of brain development ect.

I also meditate, do yoga for bad back poses, write in my journal.

I have a lovely garden. When it's warmer I'll be in it most evenings. Currently led on my chavvy garden sofa under my pergola and couldn't give a flying fuck that garden sofas and pergolas are deemed as naff on MN.

Some weekends I get up at 4 30/5 and go climb a hill near me and watch the sunrise. Sunrise is my favourite time of day. I do wish I lived near a beach. I would walk on it most days for a sunrise or a sunset.

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Swinging and casual sex via Fabswingers website, always plenty of offers to choose from!

Yaaas!! Such fun, 1 party down, another tonight!

Book club. Work (night owl writer). Dog walking (a lot). Meet friends. Gardening (a LOT). Visit elderly DF. TV and MN. Enjoy my freedom and good health.

Anything I want ✊

CrochetBug haha, lots of crochet
DragonOverTheMoon sounds lovely. I love a sunset. That's a lovely idea.
Lots of gardening. I have moved and for the first time have a lovely garden so I'm new to it but enjoy it. Any tips on keeping tulips/lillies straight? Mine flop.
I enjoy dog walking too.
I'm all tv'd out! I have run out of things to watch.
I also have a bad back, I have been thinking about pilates.
I have been Google books. I then thought of a book club. Anyone joined one and how?

I watch tv. Read occasionally. But. Mostly I crochet 😁

My lillies just work sorry OP. Each year they come back, but I bought them as lillies rather than growing them from bulb. I am growing lavender from seed this year. I'm better with veggies, the flowers I have are mostly perennials and don't need a lot of looking after other than a cut back twice a year and a smidge of weeding. Maybe replant them deeper?

If you have a bad back work on your core strength. Wish I had sorted mine out.

There are book clubs on meet up. Give it a go! I do some meet ups. Went for a full moon walk last month.

Lego

Mess about on my phone

Learning the ukulele and a one evening a week Zoom class

Watch sport on TV

Netflix

Family history research

My life is pretty dull but hopefully I'll be able to get out and about a bit more bow the weather is getting better and the evenings lighter.

Netflix/Prime.

Get angry as I have neighbours from hell on both sides of my tiny terrace. They are driving me insane. I roam rightmove, dreaming of finding somewhere with NO FARKIN NEIGHBOURS.

I do want I want to do ! I was out twice last week- gig on my own one night, theatre with friends the other. Fairly typical week.
I'm at the allotment at the moment- again typical for the summer.
Gym at the weekends. Over the next few weeks I have concerts, theatre, exhibitions - again some on my own, one with friends, one with my son.

DragonOverTheMoon yes, I was thinking about re planting them deeper. Thankyou. I fancy a moonlight walk. Were you nervous not knowing anyone?

Oh yes, the lighter nights and warmer weather lifts us a little bit.

Quatrophoenix oh no! I have new neighbours too. Moved in a couple of months ago. They're obviously redecorating as I have heard lots of banging. Haven't heard any in a couple of weeks. Then today, sat in the garden, some neighbour has decided it was a good idea to buy their dc a drum kit. I too want to live in the country side with no neighbours.

All sounds lovely. I wish I was brave enough to do some of these things alone.