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a walk up to 10 pin bowling
Gone - it's a Travelodge and gym now.
I hear their doing a 2 for 1 at the balls shop.
Drive out to Stif cycles for a mooch only 10 miles away in Summerbridge
Sounds like hell, the whole weekend
Nip over to Bolton Abbey and try to jump the Strid.
Borrow bikes, go for a ride.
Edit: and go for a beer tour
😀Brimham Rocks still has it for me.
I know nothing else about the area!
Stopped off there on a ride round the country when I was 20.
Visited friends in Leeds 15 years later in Leeds, looking for an interesting walk without much mileage (injury). Back to Brimham rocks. Great spot. Special visits both times.
Go watch a footie match on the stray or pay a few quid and watch harrogate town or railway.
If not already suggested, Spa Cycles. Tough on the non cyclists, but that's the price of being a weirdo I guess.
British Bulldogs
Hide and seek
Knock a door runaway
Wrestling
Make a swing
Build a dam
Sniff some glue
Sport - either play or watch
There must be something somewhere you can watch in person or on TV
You could try to go and play something - golf, snooker, pool, darts, go karting
A thought - why not just lend the four without bikes one each of yours?
You do have at least 5 yes?
If not your Mrs should accept that you need to procure a few more in order to allow the people [b] she's invited[/b] to [b]her birthday party[/b] to borrow one each so you can all go for a ride as [b]she wouldn't want her guests not to enjoy her birthday[/b]. So it's easy go buy enough extra bikes so everyone can ride one then go for a bike ride. Obviously these additional bikes should be in a size and of a format which suits you so they aren't then left going dusty in the garage as that would be an indulgence too far for her birthday (and everyone can manage the wrong size bike for one ride).
She said you can't go to the pub? She didn't specifically say no drinking though?
Go and sit on a park bench, drink loads and loads and loads of cider, then shout at buses, and piss yourself
Issue each chap with a deerstalker and pipe and go and find out what happened to mastiles fanylion. If you don't like the Victorian look try luxurious black moustaches and suffix all your names with P.I.
Starter for 10 - he's got twins.
http://www.stagweb.co.uk/stag-weekends/harrogateactivities.asp
You're basically after the stag do 'activity' in the daytime, before boozing gets hardcore
Well Harrogate still has a Debenhams (IIRC) across the road from Jamies, so I'll add another to my list..
Lunchtime shepherds pie, peas and chips and tea then head into the depths of the Womens Underwear section..
bikebouy - Member
Fancy a ride one day?
Are you local (to Harrogate) then?
binners wins! 😆
The paintball place near the A1 is a good about, you can easy pass the time there and have a laugh.
Go and sit on a park bench, drink loads and loads and loads of cider, then shout at buses, and piss yourself
😀
Starter for 10 - he's got twins.
So do I! 😯
(To be fair, there are three sets of twins in our girls' year at school and another two sets in the year below – they are almost as common as Range Rover Vogues in Harrogate).
Re-reading the OP I have a better idea. Go card shopping for with deepest sympathy cards or similar. Write "Sorry for getting pissed" and, for your mates, "Sorry for getting pissed, you're driving home".
Go to the pub.
Present said cards to ladies upon arrival at the restaurant, circa 8-9pm.
Go home and watch the telly?
Actually, just pay for her to get a cab there. Then you can go for a ride instead
for your mates, "Sorry for getting pissed, you're driving home".
All well and good until you find out that "pamper afternoon" was code for sitting in a luke warm bath where no one can tell you're breaking wind and drinking champagne all afternoon and the specific reason there is to be no drinking in the male group is the ladies will be half cut by 7pm and their respective other halves have been collectively volunteered for driving duty.
Could you not stand around in the foyer of the health spa with your coats folded over your arms, huffing occasionally?
All go to a charity shop and buy a "special"outfit for the evening.
Wear it to the park with the cider.
dangeourbrain - Member
bikebouy - Member
Fancy a ride one day?
Are you local (to Harrogate) then?
We've two family Farms just up the road from the OP, I get up there very often and ride a lot up over the Moors (CXer or Roadie) hence my Q..
Great area, shame it gets cold in the winter.. 😀
If you do head to stif/brimham rocks you could pay a visit to howstean gorge further up the valley. not sure if they still do it but used to have a via ferratta course.
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find out where my work colleague lives (clue - somewhere in harrogate) and then burn their house down, with them in it.
It has not been a good week.
PS, I'll vouch that i saw you in the park drinking cider and pissing yourselves at the time the fire started
dangeourbrain - Member
Take them to the pump room museum, make them drink the water
This is part of what my suggestion was going to be.
That takes up ten minutes of your time. spend the next five hours fifty minutes on the crapper. that stuff is minging
I get up there very often
Ah now it explains the south downs bit in your profile!
I do keep thinking that we should try organising something like the mnpr for those on the enlightened side of the hill. Though likely it would just end up being MNP, and just me, maybe with a book or a paper copy of ST and a (borrowed) whippet