Last was in May this year and the next - probably just camping - will be in September.

I am very fortunate in having a friend with a holiday chalet. A group of us go down to open in up and stay for a week or two most years. The only cost is the fuel to get there.

My SO and I usually aim to get another week away - maybe camping, maybe a holiday cottage - later in the year too.

We are in the UK and always go to other location in the UK for holidays. Neither of us have flown since the '90s and have no intention of doing so again.

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Personally, I always used to carry a paperback with me and would read in the odd moments that this writer seems to recall as being so dull and soul destroying. I still do carry e-books on my phone of course and use them in exactly the same way - but also with the option of doomscrolling, of course.

As for TV, I was never one for TV - or radio - as background noise. With fiends, I had a bit of reputation of going round and turning such things off when I entered the room, so that we could talk without distraction. I would ask them first, of course.

A regular weekly schedule would look something like:

• Practical volunteering with a local wildlife organisation.
• Studying something, maybe with the OU.
• Working on the house and garden
• Reading
• A decent length hike
• Working on a particular project: woodworking, writing, painting, coding, maybe putting whatever I have learnt recently into practice.
• Visiting somewhere.

A week.

I was in my teens and had no commitments at the time and just spontaneously decided not to eat or sleep for a few days - which I later decided would be a week. At the time, I had no idea of the world record for this or I probably would have tried for that - although, obviously, I was not supervised or anything.

The afternoons from the second day onwards were the worst - when I felt pretty lousy - but otherwise I was running on serotonin and was pretty much on a natural high for most the duration.

At the end, I cycled 12 miles during which one of my feet cramped and left me jabbing at the pedal as it went past, but I did it ok.

I slept extremely well when I finally did, but I took some while to get back into the whole eating thing again.

There is no way in hell that I could do anything like that now.

Ahh - ok. I had not met that bug before. I certainly did intend to post there.

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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

You can’t get a lot cooler than that.

I have three "!subscribe pending"s in my list after a session of joining a few days back. For me, they are showing up in my sidebar and I can post to them as usual, it seems. It is just that they don’t change from ‘pending’.

There is https://beehaw.org/c/creative which seems to be fairly active and certainly includes some knitters.

!map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz looks interesting.

!ukcasual@lemmy.world might become a pleasant UK based one

Museums - particularly local/folk museums.

As a kid my dad would drag me around them. I was born fairly late in his life, so he would be reminiscing about various things on display but I had no context for them and so no real interest. Maybe I would find a couple of the large items something to play with or on etc.

Later they started to be come more interesting, once I developed an interest in history and then they started to have a value as a resource on low/intermediate tech solutions to actual things I was doing. And then I started to notice items in the displays that my grandparents and then parents actually owned and used…

These days I am starting to find things on display that I used myself at the start of my working life.

A quick search brings these up:

!creativecooking@lemmy.burger.rodeo

!food@slrpnk.net

!recipes@lemmy.ml

I am rather surprised and disappointed with Waldinger’s conflation of introversion and ‘being shy’ here. It does not inspire me to seek out his book.

Not exactly active and not on Beehaw itself, but there is !horror@lemmy.ml.

For my own tastes, I am happy with media discussion and art and the like, but not so much with memes (seldom if ever do I actively want memes) or true crime etc

UK. Rural East Anglia in fact. If you have seen the tv show Detectorists you will have seen several locations that I travel past regularly.

I have occasionally hiked 20+ miles in a day. Have really enjoyed it every time, but that is quite enough thank you. My feet are in no condition to go further the following day.

10-12 miles is more common for me if I am out for the day for a hike.

The forum on TheEnvironmentSite.org 20 odd years back was really good. A lot of very informative and intelligent discussion and debate of subjects and some really friendly and supportive regulars there too.

I don’t think that I can pick out one particular incident or anything, but I do have very fond memories of the conversations altogether.