20 Things To Do This Weekend When It’s Lashing Rain

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20 Things To Do This Weekend When It’s Lashing Rain

1. Get the fuck under the duvet and watch one of these great documentaries on Netflix

2. Get food delivered to your front door with Deliveroo

3. Think about cleaning your house for a second, then return to Netflix never to have that thought again

4. Lie on your bed reading Facebook on your phone and keep telling yourself you’ll get up and do something ‘in a minute’

5. Head to Dundrum and blow all your cash

6. While in Dundrum go to the Rainforest Adventure Golf

7. Go see 'Phantom Thread' in the cinema

8. Pretend it’s December and make mulled wine

9. Download Tinder just for the lols

10. Have an Affogato inside in Murphy's Ice Cream on Wicklow Street

11. Make a blanket fort

12. Play lava floor

13. Do a Harry Potter movie marathon

14. Host a wine and cheese night

15. Procrastibake

16. Suffer a sugar comedown riddled by food regret

17. Decide you need to get fit and go for a jog in the rain

18. Return from the jog starving and eat more crap

19. Use this tool on the Ryanair website to find the cheapest flight out of here

20. Head to your favourite pub, preferably one that has a fireplace, and shoot the breeze over a few pints with your pals

1. Get the fuck under the duvet and watch one of these great documentaries on Netflix

2. Get food delivered to your front door with Deliveroo

3. Think about cleaning your house for a second, then return to Netflix never to have that thought again

4. Lie on your bed reading Facebook on your phone and keep telling yourself you’ll get up and do something ‘in a minute’

5. Head to Dundrum and blow all your cash

6. While in Dundrum go to the Rainforest Adventure Golf

7. Go see 'Phantom Thread' in the cinema

8. Pretend it’s December and make mulled wine

9. Download Tinder just for the lols

10. Have an Affogato inside in Murphy's Ice Cream on Wicklow Street

11. Make a blanket fort

12. Play lava floor

13. Do a Harry Potter movie marathon

14. Host a wine and cheese night

15. Procrastibake

16. Suffer a sugar comedown riddled by food regret

17. Decide you need to get fit and go for a jog in the rain

18. Return from the jog starving and eat more crap

19. Use this tool on the Ryanair website to find the cheapest flight out of here

20. Head to your favourite pub, preferably one that has a fireplace, and shoot the breeze over a few pints with your pals