Long weekend: What do you enjoy doing on a bank holiday?
Monday 28th August will mark the final bank holiday of the year for England, Wales and Northern Ireland until Christmas! So we want to know what you're going to be getting up to. Come rain or shine - here's what some of you lot are going to be spending your days doing over the course of the long weekend.
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00:00 What do you normally do on a bank holiday? Is there anything you like to do?
00:04 I normally go out with my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.
00:06 Spend as much time with them as possible.
00:09 Oh fab. Is there any favourite place you like to go on a bank holiday?
00:12 We like to go to Beamish or just to the park. Just spend quality time.
00:17 It depends if we get organised really. If we can have some friends over and do something fun.
00:21 It's just a case of keeping the kids mildly entertained.
00:24 Or survival mode if you've not slept well.
00:28 This weekend, nothing special. Maybe walking. I'll be walking around if the weather's OK.
00:35 I love a cheeky bank holiday.
00:36 I love a bank holiday.
00:37 I'm down to have a full pamper day and then go out and get mashed up.
00:41 Go out, have a drink.
00:42 Go get Botox, get a face done.
00:44 It's our age generation.
00:46 Yeah, and then go absolutely crazy I think.
00:49 Will Brits be following the trends of bank holidays earlier in the year this time around?
00:53 Back in May, a survey found Brits wish they could spend less cash over the long weekends
00:58 with 23% cutting costs by either reading or listening to music,
01:02 12% going to a free local event and 10% exercising in their outdoor area.
01:08 Hosting or attending a barbecue or getting stuck in with some gardening were also popular pursuits.
01:14 But here's what some of you lots are planning.
01:16 Depending on the weather, I like to spend my time in the garden because there's always lots to do.
01:21 I like to go to Primark.
01:23 Spend time with friends and family I guess. Chill out if I'm not working.
01:28 That's it really.
01:29 I think it's a lazy day.
01:30 I think it really depends on the weather because you can't really count on it.
01:33 You might plan this great walk and then it's pouring with rain and so you end up sort of thinking,
01:39 "Oh, let's go to the pub or do something else."
01:41 But relaxing, spending time with my family, that's the best thing.
01:44 I have time with my family.
01:47 I play with my kids.
01:48 I have time for my wife.
01:50 You know, we can go out for shopping.
01:53 And then basically just to relax, cool down my brain and enjoy myself.
02:00 I like to find somewhere local, go for a nice walk, take the dog, go and visit a stately home.
02:06 Somewhere local really and just relax and enjoy time with the family.
02:10 For this one, I'll be going back to see my family in Carlisle.
02:16 So yeah, it would just be just see more family in that sense.
02:19 But I think a lot of times, depending on the job I would be working at the time,
02:23 I might just work it or whatever.
02:24 So they're not that special for me in that sense.
02:27 They're just a normal day, another Sunday as it were.
02:30 So yeah.
02:31 Visit my friends sometimes and walking on the street.
02:38 I usually like to go out with the kids and we go places like Martin Mear Wildlife Sanctuary.
02:45 I do actually avoid places on bank holidays though sometimes
02:49 because I don't like places when they're too busy.
02:52 Lazy day at home usually.
02:55 We call it a week from the weekend.
02:56 It's usually an extra day, extra night out, so an extra day to recover.
03:00 That's usually what I do on a bank holiday, recover.
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