Hi and welcome to the forums .... 🌷
Here are a few suggestions ..... I hope the list is not overwhelming .... my intent is to provide a bit of a menu in dot point form just to twig something with you that appeals .
Contact a local community centre and join a group class, like poetry writing or painting classes for beginners ....
If you have a swim centre you can access, join the water aerobics class.
Take a regular seat in a local coffee shop and chat a little to the people behind the counter, the person who brings your coffee, smile at other people, complement someone on their baby .... just learn to be casually social without bonding. Across time you will start to feel like a local. Do a crossword there or read a book and people-watch.
Volunteer to help in a local school or hospital.
See if you can join a ten-pin bowling class, or lawn bowls if that's your preference ....
If there are tourism services in your town, offer to be a guide. Same for a local zoo.
Look up church groups in your area.
Volunteer your services on charity run days handing out water, putting up signs or tape and things.
Its really about stepping out again into the streams of life around you. Some of it will just be general socialisation, but friendships develop from such things as these .... but you have to put yourself out tgere a bit first.
