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  • Illustration by Gwendal Le Bec

    If you do one thing this month … go urban hiking

    Who needs mountains when you’ve got steps, walls and streets?
  • Conkers illustration for DO SOMETHING

    If you do one thing this month ... win at conkers

    We’re not saying you have to go so far as to make a pig swallow your conker to toughen it up, but ...
  • Ai Weiwei's sock puppets.

    Make an Ai Weiwei sock puppet

    The artist’s handmade ‘caonimas’ are a symbol of defiance against censorship in China – show solidarity by sewing your own
  • Cumberstitch Benedict Cumberbatch cross stitch

    If you do one thing this month … perfect your Cumberstitch

    Indulge your Benedict Cumberbatch fantasies and make cross-stitch patterns of the hunky Hamlet
  • Illustration of fossil collecting by Gwendal Le Bec

    If you do one thing this month … go fossil hunting

    Jurassic World has rekindled our passion for the prehistoric, so head to the beach in search of ammonites, belemnites – and maybe even a sauropod or two
  • Aidan Turner

    If you do one thing this month … scythe like Poldark

    Scything is seeing a jump in popularity, thanks to Poldark star Aiden Turner’s famous scene. It’s not too difficult to get to grips with weeding with a scythe – best keep your shirt on though
  • The 150m-year-old Stegosaurus on display at the Natural History Museum, London.

    If you do one thing this month … spend the night in a museum

    You might find a date among the dinosaur skeletons
  • Trapeze training can be a great form of exercise.

    If you do one thing this month … try trapeze fitness

    Trapfit is the latest craze from California, but aerial fitness and circus skills classes are already held all over the UK
  • Wooden ukulele

    If you do one thing this month … learn to play the ukulele

    Master just three chords, and you can impress your friends with a spontaneous burst of song
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