April 9, 2020
In case you have not had time to think about the best way to spend the weekend with your family, we thought we would suggest some ideas!
From embracing your creative flair and learning how to become a mixologist, to devising a virtual pub quiz for your friends and family to enjoy, there’s some joy to be found in quarantine yet.
Get Creative
- Perfect your baking skills: click here to learn how to bake your own bread.
- Pasta Making: click here to perfect the art of making pasta.
- Belt your heart out with at-home karaoke: click here
- Digital Easter Egg Hunt: click here
- Improve your Calligraphy Skills: click here to join an online calligraphy course.
- Workout! click here if you can’t wait till next week’s exercise class.
- Isolation Art School: click here to learn from famous artists from around the world.
Adults
- Virtual Pub Quiz: click here for tips on how to host a virtual pub quiz with your friends.
- Tour a vineyard in Champagne: click here
- Cocktail Making: click here to learn how to create delicious cocktails at home.
Get Cultural
- An exclusive museum visit: click here to take a tour of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Get up close with Shakespeare’s Globe: click here to take a 360 degree tour of the Globe Theatre.
- Watch a live performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: click here
- Join a virtual online Jack the Ripper Tour: Click here to visit real-life crime scenes of the Jack the Ripper murders in east London’s Whitechapel in 1888, and then investigate them with photographic evidence, suspect cards and true stories.
Best box sets to binge-watch
- Big Little Lies (Sky)
- Billions (Sky)
- Boardwalk Empire (Sky)
- Catch 22 (Channel 4)
- Formula 1: Drive to Survive (Netflix)
- Fresh Meat (Netflix)
- Greatest Events of World War II in Colour (Netflix)
- Hunters (Amazon)
- Noughts and Crosses (BBC1) [based on Malorie Blackman’s book]
- Oasis – Supersonic (Netflix)
- Ozark (Netflix)
- Peaky Blinders (Sky/ Netflix/ Amazon)
- Race Across the World (BBC 2)
- Sex Education (Netflix)
- Sopranos (Now TV)
- Stranger Things (Netflix)
- The Split (BBC iPlayer)
- The Wire (Now TV)
- Tiger King (Netflix)
- Top Boy (Netflix)
- True Detective Season 1 (Amazon)
- Westworld (Now TV)
- You (Netflix)
Podcasts
- The Bugle presents the last post with Alice Fraser – editors picks from the economist.
- More or Less: Behind the Stats – breaks down/ explains statistics from the weeks news.
- You’re dead to me – BBC History podcast light-hearted view of history.
- The High Low – Elizabeth day recent podcast.
- Helena Morrissey – Desert island disks.
Books
- Bernie Gunther series – Philip Kerr’s
- Rebel Thinking – Matthew Syaed
- Where the poor dad’s sing – Delia Owens
- Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney
- Blitzed – Norman Ohler
- Endurance – Alfred Lansing
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brow
- The Jack Reacher Series – Lee Child
- Orphan X Series – Gregg Hurwitz
- Papillon – Henri Charriere
- Red Sparrow – Jason Matthews
- First Light – Geoffrey Wellum
- The Marsh Arabs – Wilfred Thesiger
- A Week in December – Sebastian Faulks
- The Corporation – T. J English
- The Jokes Over: Memories of Hunter S Thompson – Ralph Steadman
- Scar Tissue – Larry Sloman
- Queenies – Candice Carty-Williams
- Normal People – Sally Rooney
- An America Marriage – Tayari Jones
- It was the night before Christmas – Adam Kay
We hope you manage to find something you like on the list above and have a great Easter weekend!