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Ideas
By subject
52 ideas in 13 subjects
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Travel
Places worth the effort of getting to.
27 ideas
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Nature
Weather, animals, dark skies and cold water.
4 ideas
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Skills
Things you can learn to do with your hands or head.
1 idea
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Making things
Build, bake, sew, write or grow something that did not exist before.
1 idea
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Body
What your body can do if you ask it properly.
13 ideas
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Money
Small, specific things to do with money, once.
Being written
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Food
Meals, markets and one very long cooking project.
1 idea
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The small everyday
Ideas that fit into an ordinary Tuesday.
1 idea
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People
Things that are better done with someone, or for them.
1 idea
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The strange
Odd, specific and slightly hard to explain at dinner.
1 idea
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Home
Where you live, and how.
Being written
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Work
Things to do with the hours you are paid for.
Being written
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Giving
Time, money or blood, given on purpose.
2 ideas
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Body
Race the Dragon's Back across Wales
Your socks are wet before breakfast, soaked through in the first bog on the Rhinogydd, and they stay that way for five days.
Best time:Held biennially in September
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Travel
Wait for the train at the Slam Dunk crossing in Kamakura
What you remember afterwards isn't the train, small and green, already leaving, but the waiting: the barrier bell, the specific hush of thirty strangers holding phones still — and behind it all, the sea doing nothing dramatic.
Best time:Any season; clearest skies October–March, avoid the June rainy season
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Travel
Cross Abbey Road on the white stripes like the Beatles
A black cab slows behind you, the driver's face unreadable, while you and four strangers from Ohio try to walk in step across the white stripes without looking like you're trying.
Best time:Any time of year, but early morning any day works best