Looking for ideas for half term

[mumblechum]

Hi, my ds is going to be off for a total of 11 days from Wed, inc. inset days and weekends.

He's 13 and so far have got 3 of those days booked up with friends either coming here or he's being taken out (cinema etc).

We're in a small village, his friends live between 5 and 12 miles away so it's not exactly a "go out and knock on someone's door" situ.

I'm planning to take him out to London for one day and prob a long bike ride and lunch for another, but really at this age they like to be with their mates.

Short of the usual cinema or swimming pool options, what else?

What are your teens doing?

Are there any Bowling Centres near you. My teenagers love bowling and it is somewhere they can have fun with thier mates.

Thanks, that's a good idea... will arrange it for 4 or so of them to make it last longer!

Not that much
DS1 (13) has four days of school rugby tour to start with, he'll probably spend monday in bed recovering while I take DS2 (12) to district rugby trials. A couple of days at my mums, one day is his birthday, although he's not doing anything apparently - recently dumped by girlfriend and he doesn't want a party, then i'm away for three days so DH wil be looking after them so I expect just chilling and a bit of rugby training.

DS (16) will have turned night into day by Monday morning and will be spending every day in bed until at least 2pm.

I'm taking ds (just turned 14) to an art gallery, he went with school to a small one. So I offered to take him to a bigger one.
We're going to the Tate for a day and then for a meal, I am, of course, making the most of it because, who knows, by next year he may not want to know me

Screaming, I know what you mean.

Will your ds make his own arrangements to see his mates?

I often feel that I'm my ds's social secretary, if I didn't phone their mums and organise stuff, they'd all individually be kicking around at home bored, rather than get together round the PS2 or whatever.

Yes, we live in a small town, so most of his mates are only a bike ride away. One of his mates lives in a small village and he will get the bus over once or twice in the week to see him.
I expect he will probably go to the cinema one afternoon and spend the rest of the time doing his bowling practise (for cricket).
So he'll probably have to make time in his diary to squeeze our gallery trip in.
I have to say the going out with his mates regulary is a fairly recent thing, he's always been fairly happy to hang around with a book.