209 - 100 Ways to Spend Your Summer 💯

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Looking for ways to spend your summer? We’ve updated our annual guide with a slew of suggestions to keep you busy!

So bust out the sunscreen and throw on your shades: your next two months are looking bright.

1. Pucker Up

2. Enjoy a “Big Slice®” al fresco after midnight

3. Visit The C*ves

4. Tour London’s outdoor sculptures

5. Circumnavigate “Lake Fanshawe”

6. Discover the Banana Kingdom

7. Explore a neighbouring neighbourhood

8. Watch for new murals

9. Play some Summer Festival Bingo with us!

10. Build a fort in Kelly Park

11. Catch a ballgame/make a difference

12. Think of the children

13. Walk the TVP

14. Ride the TVP

15. Eat local!

16. Staycation with a global vacation energy (see #50)

17. Spice it up with some herbs from the Old South Herb Box Project

18. Enjoy a night out at the movies.

19. Set up a lawn chair (and sun-brella) and marvel at all the construction

20. Play some Lawn Games

21. Go fish

22. Support London’s Black-owned businesses

23. Plant a community garden plot

24. Tour all the other community gardens

25. Subscribe to the London’s Pretty Cool podcast

26. Write your councillor

27. Feed the fish at the Civic Gardens’ fish pond

28. Ride the bus

29. Cover the sidewalks with chalk-art

30. Make every day International Burger Day.

31. Join your neighbourhood community association

32. Start your neighbourhood’s community association

33. Canoe!

34. Plant a secret time capsule in a park somewhere

35. Explore ALL the library has to offer

36. Take the family and a hibachi to Springbank Park for a picnic

37. Hang with all the cool cats

38. Meet Me at the OA(SIS)

39. Learn your neighbours’ favourite food

40. Start your weekends at the new Westmount Farmers Market and/or Covent Garden Market and/or The Market at the Western Fair District.

41. Watch out for the carnivorous plants at Sifton Bog

42. Show your Pride!

43. Get offline

44. Take a hike in Komoka and cool off in the river

45. Day Trip!

46. Call the Office

47. Return to London's punk roots

48. Play in the street!

49. Woof!

50. Spend your staycation travelling the world

51. Pump the adrenaline at Boler Mountain’s Treetop Adventure

52. Spread out a blanket and enjoy a bottle of w*ne in ______ Park

53. Start birding

54. Phone a friend

55. Support the London Food Bank

56. Write your councillor, again.

57. Check out some of the city’s best neon.

58. Make an obstacle course for your neighbours

59. Tell your friends ________.

60. Celebrate the small things

61. Check out the Mushkeeki Gitigan (Medicine Garden) located inside the Carolinian Food Forest at South Branch Park. 

62. Write a letter to someone in a nursing home

63. Salsa!

64. Volunteer

65. Visit the Farm

66. Create a backyard water park

67. Make something

68. Wave to the “friendly duck(s)” at Storybook Gardens

69. Stargaze with the kids

70. Savor local strawberries while they’re in season

71. Hit the patio(s)

72. And the breweries (also, also)

73. Enjoy Ryan Gosling as Local Beers (Round 1, Round 2)

74. Find a food truck

75. Bring back the Rolling Stones

76. Brighten someone’s day with flowers

77. Get empathetic

78. Enjoy some yoga amidst the flowers

79. Start a Pollinator Garden

80. Re-watch #17’s best dunks of 2023

81. Listen to your elders

82. Get Downtown

83. Try somesing beddar!

84. Take out a book (or three) from the Library’s Spotlight on Indigenous Reads list.

85. Share some nachos with friends

86. Take a hike

87. Re-read all of our lists 💯

88. “Hang out” with Jeff and Liam at Reg Cooper Square 

89. Shoot some hoops at the Our London Family basketball courts in West Lions Park

90. Tune in to Radio Western and The X regularly

91. Get Sidetracked 

92. Dream of winter

93. Get ready for more from The Forest City Pizza Lovers 😉

94. Drive-In for a movie under the stars.

95. Create a “monument” tour that includes a Rhinoceros, Engine 86, Sasquatch... 

96. Follow the Dumpling Trail

97. Read Greg Curnoe’s Deeds/Abstracts 

98. Roast more s’mores

99. Send us suggestions for next summer’s list

100. Make your own list (and share it with friends)! 👏

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