Doing it alone?

Actually it is called BIG SCREAM when children are allowed with parents etc. sorry for error

Love Silver Screen, must give a go sometime. Just a funny aside, a few years ago I took my friends baby 12 months old, to Silver Scream where babies are allowed in with grannies or parents. The film was Broke Back Mountain, when it came to a particularly raunchy love scene between the two guys the baby woke up. I quickly turned his pram around so as not to traumatise the poor child. It was only after I had done it that I realised what a daft thing to do [laugh]

shysal - that's a useful link - thank you.

shysal Thank you for info on Silver Screen, I've not heard about it in Oxford. gracesmum what you say in your last sentence does ring true. So, it's off to the Silver Screen next week on my own, and the week after that - who knows where?

goose, just looked up Silver screen, and the Odeon in George St., Oxford does it. Here is a list of all participating cinemas.
www.odeon.co.uk/fanatic/senior-screen/
Thanks flower, I might give it a try, although I don't drink tea or coffee.

Goose, at our local cinema we have SILVER SCREEN days where once a week Senior Citizens can go to the cinema (in the mornings to see one of the current movies) the cost is reduced and we used get a free drink. If its not in your area suggest it to the cinema. It is usually a good turnout. We also have SILVER SCREAM - for parents and babies up to 36 months. They even turn the sound down a little if too loud for sleeping babies. Worth a try

True, vegasmags, I have been known to get lost in the Lowry car park, but usually am very careful to park close to an identifiable spot, like a lift or an exit.

Anno I really admire you! Every time I park at the Lowry, I get completely disorientated and take ages to find the car again. I can't wait for my local spur of the tram to open this summer so I can do the whole journey painlessly!

I'm happy to go to the opera or theatre on my own, especially if it's at the Lowry in Salford where I can park easily and don't have to worry about finding a parking space or having to get a train home late at night. I notice that plenty of people go to the opera on their own.

Hello Goose dont be nervious just go along and enjoy the film. Maybe buy yourself some lovely popcorn.

I think you may have something there gracesmum in that cinema seats used to be quite cramped so it was very difficult to avoid some physical proximity. I happily go along to the local multiplex, where the seats are capacious and I always book an aisle seat in advance, mostly because I have long legs that I like to stretch out when the film starts, but also because it means you only have one neighbour. Modern cinemas also have security staff patrolling - on the look out for secret recordings - but this also deters bad behaviour.

When DH was working away form home in Bournemouth he used to have to eat out alone (if he wanted to eat out - a good book helped) He felt awkward going to the cinema alone though but found consolation in going to BSO concerts at The Lighthouse .It is not unusual for a music lover to go alone, their partner may have different tastes or just not like music. The theatre is also possible, but is it the image of men in macs in cinemas that makes a person feel uncomforable?

I have been to the theatre and cinema a few times in the last year on my own as my wife passed away. I have daughters but I have seen the odd thing which they were not interested in.
I do tell them I am going as I have had the odd surprise. A few months ago I went to 60's evening and they wanted to come. This was unexpected as they were born in the 80's.
I have never been on holidays on my own as I tend to go with friends, daughters and grandchildren.
Saying that I have travelled to the destination on my own and met them there as they have been from different area's.


Frank

Thank you everyone that's replied to this thread so far. I have to do 'things on my own' all the time and sometimes I find it hard, and then I feel I'm being 'weak'. It's uplifting to feel I'm not on my own after all...:-)

I've twice spent a few days in Paris on my own. For me that's the best way to visit a city because I can go at my own pace and see what I want to see. Sounds selfish? Why not? I've been twice with my sister which was OK as we have the same tastes and interests, but maybe not quite the same pace.

I'm quite happy to go to a cinema or theatre on my own. I will eat in a resturant alone too. As greatnan says 'who cares what other people think. I'm not anti social and enjoy outings with friends and family too. Sometimes I like to just get in the car and take myself somewhere. It can be nice just to do your own thing. Haven't been on holiday on my own yet but i don't think I would have a problem with doing it .

I think many of you will know that I take a lot of holidays alone - not just out of necessity but because not many women of my age want to do the kind of things I do on holiday, like snorkeling on coral, white water rafting, or tramping for miles up isolated mountains. (Juragran is an exception, of course, and a perfect holiday companion, with a very understanding husband!)
I have no qualms about going into pubs/restaurants/cafes alone either, but I don't go to the cinema because I, too, am rather claustrophobic and I would need to sit on the end of a row very near an emergency exit! Oddly enough, the one situation in which I am trapped for up to 13 hours in a confined space - flying - does not bother me at all.
I think it is better not to think that other people are looking at you and thinking you are a 'Billy no mates'. Most people are not even interested in why you are on your own anyway. Anyway, who cares what strangers think? I wouldn't let it stop me doing anything I want.

Goose - I admire you enormously - I'd never have the confidence to holiday alone, so I think you're brilliant. I've never been to the cinema on my own either but the cinema that Tegan mentions sounds great - what a good idea. I wonder if other cinemas would be interested if it was proposed to them.

I never go to the cinema now, I find the volume is too loud and also get annoyed with the sweet wrapper rustlers and mobile phones. If you watch a film on DVD you can rewind it if you miss something.

I know I go on about my wonderful cinema [The Quad] but I'm quite happy to go there on my own. They have special screenings for people that are alone where they see the film and then have a discussion about it afterwards. They also have several themed weekends [Dr Who and sci fi this year] where people go along on their own [along with knitting and crochet afternoons, art classes, photography classes etc]. The one drawback with going to see a film on your own is not having someone to discuss it with afterwards [an important part of the experience imo] but that problem has been solved with access to the internet. Not sure that I'd go to a multiplex cinema though. And possibly not the theatre; not sure why; perhaps I look on the theatre as more of a 'get dressed up' occasion.

Love film. Going off to Poitiers tomorrow to see Searching for Sugar Man. 1.30pm showing. Taking sandwiches and choc. bisc. Might even take a flask.
Will try not to snore or spill tea. .

It's thirty years since I went to a cinema (I dislike the modern ones) but often took myself to the movies years ago - in part, I suppose, because I worked in the evenings, when most people went to the cinema - I went during the afternoons.

Oh yes, I saw many a flick to the accompaniment of snoring pensioners!

As a teenager I often went to the cinema alone (my tastes were different to that of my friends who seemed to prefer the shoot-em-up violent or horror films).

Since being widowed I have been on holiday and travelled alone but I think I would now think twice about going to the cinema alone (and I would never go into a pub alone).

Films have always been a passion of mine and if there is something I've wanted to see badly enough I'll make the trek, theater too.

I can't say I love it on my own but my need to see a particular film or show has an override function that propels me forward.

The first time is the worst, for me I was just seventeen (you know what I mean) and I wanted to see The Exorcist and no one would come with so I bit the bullet.

I often go the cinema alone and I never think twice about it. Sometimes I go with a friend, but as I have a fairly minority interest in films, preferring the art house type to the popular, not many of my friends would want to accompany me. It has never crossed my mind until reading dorsetpennt that others might regard me as a billy no mates - and if they do, so what?

I have lived alone for many years and whilst I am always glad of companionship I have learned to overcome my inhibitions, otherwise I would have spent a lot of time in front of the TV instead of travelling the world.