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Time In Couchbound No. #12 | Issue No. #2580 My Preferences | View Online Help us help London’s local businesses Imagine how bummed out you’d be if your favourite Ethiopian restaurant closed. Now imagine how much sadder you’d feel if your favourite cactus store closed too. Okay, now imagine what would happen if all the independent local restaurants, pubs, shops, cinemas and theatres in London closed. We’re determined to prevent such a nightmarish future from occurring and have launched our Love Local campaign, to help small businesses get through this disastrous period. They make this city what it is. We owe them their survival. Find out more Fingers on buzzers ‘Square Dance’, ‘Round the Houses’ and ‘London Pride’ were working titles for which TV programme? Incoming: today’s streaming highlights Noon Gaze into the infinite cosmos Something a bit different for you today. It can’t all be pub quizzes and blockbuster theatre. Why not break up Tuesday with a bit of actual science, courtesy of our buddies at the Natural History Museum? Join scientist Zach Dickeson for an interactive talk on the future of our interplanetary neighbour Mars. You can ask questions and everything. Just don’t embarrass yourself by mentioning aliens or anything. The best of the rest All day The London Symphony Orchestra has just released its 2013 Barbican performance of Berlioz’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. 7.30pm Tune into Bar Wotever’s online drag cabaret spectacular. 10pm Caitlin Moran chats about her autobiographical film ‘How to Build a Girl’. Check out our full list of virtual highlights, updated every day. Blissful pixel pushing Videogames used to be (sort of) relaxing. Not any more. These days most gaming is a nerve-shredding, emotionally brutal ordeal, usually involving fiddly controls and convoluted plots that make ‘Game of Thrones’ look like CBeebies. That’s not what any of us need right now, is it? How about slowly pushing some coloured blocks around a screen, accompanied by ambient music? That’s a bit more like it. Check out our list of minimalist phone games you can download for free. Mmm, zen. More quality for your quarantine Time for trivia Our pick of the finest virtual quizzes to test your mind mettle More here Carnivore diary We challenged a lifelong veggie to try all the meats. He accepted More here Do some stories We’re helping judge a writing contest for really short stories. Why not enter? More here Pushing through Advice from an injured army veteran on dealing with lockdown More here ‘Could you guys maybe take your conversation outside and stop blocking the fucking vegetable aisle, please?’ @Bob__DM Overheard something weird and wonderful? Tweet us and you might see it next week! Feelgood links to ease the pain Hours and hours of relaxing, high-def drone-cam footage of glorious nature YouTube Get your fave BBC shows into your Zoom chats with these official background images BBC How to kill time (and blow minds) in a furniture superstore during lockdown Reddit Two penguins from an Oregon zoo went for an actual hike in the woods Twitter London lad recreates his local pub (and friends) in virtual reality Wired Hey London, share the love! Forward to a friend Time Out has become Time In while our wonderful city is on lockdown. We are still dedicated to bringing you the best of London, even while London itself sits indoors for a while. Wherever you are in the city, if there's something happening, Time In will let you know about it. Contact Us Terms Of Use My Preferences Unsubscribe Me 77 Wicklow St London, UK, WC1X 9JY, GB