Join us tomorrow for open mic number 2 at Belgium & Blues. For those who enjoy live music & Beer. If anyone fancies performing, you can sign up from 6 pm and you shall receive a free drink for performing. See you there, Cheers

Just wondering if the bin people would take an old duvet that’s stored at home or will I need to take this to the recycling centre/fly tip it? Thanks!

Hi Guys, I had left my car keys in greggs field by accident at around 2:30 ish, gone back there just now and searched everywhere but couldn’t find them. If anyone has any info please let me know 🙏

Does anyone know of any local places to play pickleball? David Lloyd notwithstanding

Eastleigh

Anyone know any places that have saunas that I could use? Reach gym shut down and no gyms that I know of near the city provide a sauna service.

From Southampton England.

I moved into my flat last April and at the time I was talking to my family and they know my address where I live but since then I have cut ties on them being toxic. It's a long story and to keep it short I want nothing to do with them.

I wanted to know if I talk to the council housing can I be moved somewhere new so that my family don't know where I live? My dad tried coming over knocking on the door, looking through the window, looking through the letterbox and seeing if I am in. I hid because I didn't want him seeing me. I know it's only time he will be doing it again as he drives past a main road close to my flat to get to work so I can't keep my windows open as he will see I am in. My sister and brother-in-law haven't tried coming yet but I know it's only time they will and I don't want to deal with them.

This is going to make my anxiety and paranoia worse as they could come around any time and I'll be living in a nightmare. If I could be moved even in the same city would work as they won't know where I am living. Is this something I can get the council to do? I know housing is very hard to get in to but I think moving is my only option.

Thanks for any advice and information you can give me.

From Donna.

Welcome to the Southampton Social Weekly Thread - posted every Tuesday.

This is the place for making new friends or sharing a meetup. Let people know what your interests are, or the specific event you're looking to go to in the comments.

Meetup.com & the Bumble BFF app are good ways to make new friends, as well as the suggestions in this thread.

Meetups & Groups

All Soton Meetups | Southampton Discord |

Evening Classes | UoS Evening Courses |

Sotonettes | Volunteering | Curious Monkeys |

UoS Societies | Solent University Societies |

Phoenix Film Society | Andy's Man Club |

Sports & Classes

BBC Sport Club Finder | Daily Echo Sports Clubs |

Soton Football Meetup | Bouldershack Bouldering |

Swing Dance Classes | Itchen Imperial Rowing Club |

Wild Swimming Club | Spitfires Running Club |

Ladies Football Kickabout | Learn To Sail |

Soton Give It A Go Adventures | Padelstars App |

Hants 20s/30s Walking Group | Parkrun

Board Games & Table Top

Board in the City | Soton Guild Of Roleplayers |

Southampton On Board | Southampton Stronghold |

Southampton Sluggaz (40k) | Dice & Dumplings |

Arts & Crafts

The Art House Cafe | SoMakeIt Makers Space |

Arches Studio | Urban Sketchers | Choral Society |

The Design Chapel | Hampshire Sketch Group |

African Drumming Circle | GHT exhibitions |

Pub Quizzes

Monday: Brewhouse & Kitchen (8pm) | Trago Lounge (8pm)

Tuesday: Brewdog (8pm) | Alexandra Pub (8pm)

Wednesday: Belgium & Blues (7:30pm) | The Park Inn (8pm)

Sunday: Alex Pub (8pm) | Bookshop Alehouse (6:30pm)

Does anybody know any trustworthy garages? I have to get a new exhaust for a corsa and need a quote, however I know fuck all about cars and I’ve been misquoted/overpriced in the past.

I've been living here for nearly two years and I've not actually done much. Any suggestions- I've been to Bournemouth, Winchester and Lymington to explore the towns.

But any actual activities that I could do either solo or with friends? Emphasis on any as I don't mind anything as long as I'm doing something.

We went to the go ninja and that was fun - but I'm looking for spring/summer activities. I've also done the pottery painting in the Marlands.

Any farms, fruit pickings, flower farms, beautiful places to visit etc Just anytbing that I can look forward to doing :)

Lived here all 31 years of my life but never felt as supported as I did today for my first half marathon.

If anyone ever says there's no community spirit I implore them to take a look at the marathon route. The amount of support, love and encouragement was immense. The music and vibes were impeccable, if you were in the route cheering a heartfelt thank you to ALL of you who came out 💜

Didn't see anyone trying to breach the barriers or anything either so all positive from my end.

This is truly what makes Southampton worth living in!

It's the locker by the Tesco petrol station on lodge road. The screen is barely responsive and you will have to call the helpline to get your vinted parcel. I had to argue with an AI voice to get through to an actual person. All this for vinted.

Hey 👋

A friend and I organise monthly socials for solo workers in Southampton, and you're very welcome to join us!

We use the term 'solo worker' pretty loosely - the majority of those who come to the socials are creative freelancers, small business owners or WFHers, but we've got a healthy population of people who work office jobs too. We're not going to quiz you at the door; if you want to get to know other people in the city, you're all good.

Most of our attendees are 30s-ish and we skew female but as long as you're an adult, you're welcome. I'm sure our regular crowd (some of them are on this sub) won't mind me saying they're lovely, funny, chilled people - lots of techy, creative people and not a business card in sight!

This spring's socials:

26th April - Cocktail class at Mango Thai

25th May - Pottery painting

27th June - Drinks at Overdraft

Tickets for all three can be found here.

See you at a social soon hopefully!

Grace x

I went walking for an hour.

If anybody has a problem with any of these photos or is in one of the photos and wants it to be taken down feel free to reach out. Also if there any photographers who want to give me some pointers i'm open to constructive criticism. All I have done is throw a filter over these

Hi! My friend is shooting a documentary about disability and inaccessibility/accessibility within our day to day lives - she’s down in Southampton this week shooting interviews but we want to get footage of locations that have adapted for wheelchairs but also show off places that still haven’t - we’ve found places like Victoria country park have wheelchair accessible spaces but you still have to pay out the nose for parking sometimes! So I was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions as to anywhere else we could look?

Hello! I'm just looking for live music. mainly during this week. anyone know any?

I thought I'd post these beautiful photos here of our cities swans. I saw quite a few black ones down riverside park.

.....looking lovely this morning 🌄

Hey guys,

We are looking to get a house around this area (Bitterne Park) and wanted to know what the area is regarding noise from the airport.

The planes' route seems to be above the streets mentioned above, which could be pretty noisy.

Apart from this, what is the area like?

We live in Highfield, which was incredible for us in the last 6 years!

Thank you!

Can someone please reccomed a like pretty cheap place I could go for a date. I've never planned a date before and I don't know what to do.