Bank Holiday Monday is now Boxset Monday

HOW will you be spending your Bank Holiday Monday tomorrow? Tootling to the seaside with the family, kids clutching their buckets and spades in the back seat in anticipation of a classic family get-away?

If so, you’re probably in the minority in Scotland, because most of us will be lolling on the couch in our pants watching Game Of Thrones, Broadchurch or Line Of Duty.

Given that bank holidays only come around nine times a year, you’d hope Scots would be a bit adventurous with their days off, but seemingly not. If we aren’t watching TV tomorrow, we’ll be doing DIY or maybe going for a pint.

A new survey has found that a majority of us plans to spend an average of just six hours and 14 minutes outdoors. One-third (32 per cent) said the long weekend was an opportunity to catch up on television series and box-sets.

One in four (28 per cent) plans to get the tools out and do DIY, while 26 per cent plan to tend to their garden or outdoor space. A more social 23 per cent plan to spend time outdoors in a beer garden or bar terrace, while 17 per cent aim to attempt a country walk.

Things look equally bleak when it comes to how the average Scot sees summer. It’s taps aff in town centres, fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, sunburn at the seaside, and running for cover during an inevitable rain shower, according to separate research by YouGov. Some 53 per cent of us associate summer with men baring their chests as soon as the sun comes out.

Also featured is finding sand in your bag, hair and clothes after a day at the seaside (51 per cent) and going out on the first day of sun and getting sunburned (50 per cent). For the majority of us, classic fish and chips (55 per cent) and strawberries and cream (51 per cent) mean summer is served. Eating outside doesn’t put us off either, with almost half of Scots (49 per cent) saying having lunch al fresco – even if half of it gets blown away by the wind – epitomises summer in Scotland.