I don't have a bucket list. I've done quite a few of the things I wanted to do, like gallop on a beach (did that in Ireland with my daughter), holiday in Corsica, visit the Beth Chatto garden and Bressingham Gardens, go to Venice with a man I love, ditto Tuscany and Florence. I've been to New York and seen the man I love singing with his choir in Carnegie Hall and then we saw Impressionist paintings in the New York Met art gallery and walked in Central Park.
I would have liked to move back to England, but my children and grandchildren all live in France so we have done the next best thing and bought a little cottage in Norfolk and spend time in France and England.
The main thing is good health and a happy life for me and my family.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Busy Lizzy NAKED "yikes" No I will be as the photo on the mantle my cleaning lady admires as she dusts it, WO1 best uniform every crease in place and master of all I survey. My bucket list was empty years ago it now contains one wish to never leave this beautiful Country ever again. Seen it done it, had highs many, lows a few, had excitement, too much at times boredom sometimes. In other words I am happy with my lot. My Daughter loves going on cruises and has begged me to go with them, I did many and we called them Troop Ships plus many North sea crossings to the Hook, Hamburg, and even once in the Black Sea, I am cruised out.
A good crop of Tomato's, seeing my Peony's bloom, travelling around our wonderful area Yorkshire Derbyshire Durham Northumberland and the lakes all within a days travel and back to my own warm bed, that is me.
"Err" was that travelling with one love or is there a story to it?
I don’t have a bucket list nor do I want one. I just want to live long enough to see both my boys settled and happy then my maker can have me.
Before my husband died we had all sorts of plans for our retirement and the all seem so trivial now. The Nile cruise we were going to have, the trip back to the hotel where we met and the lazy days sunning ourselves on a hot beach mean nothing to me now.
i am happy in my garden and home with my cats and boys. I hope to one day watch my boys fall in love and marry. It would be nice to live long enough to see a grandchild or two but if that is not what they want I am ok with that too. As long as they are happy with their life choices.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
""Err" was that travelling with one love or is there a story to it?" - Frank asked on previous page. Answer, the travelling was with 2nd OH. I've had 2 loves, but first one died when I was 47, otherwise the trip to Venice might have been with him. We were too busy bringing up our 4 children then, more family holidays than romantic ones. I was devastated when I lost him but years later I met my 2nd love.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Busy Lizzie, Sorry I was just being nosy, my love of many years passed away seven years ago next month, not a day goes past without I think of her and the wonderful romantic times and places we saw together.
Joan was a ten day girl, ten days anywhere and she was ready for home. Flying home from a month with my Daughter and Grandchildren in California we had a very bad flight. I was used to it having had some scary military flights and slept most of the way for which I got my ears burned, "How could you sleep in that etc." Landing at Heath Row after having to go round again she told me that was it she would never fly again. problem we had to fly to Teesside. I offered to cancel the flight and we would get the train but she hid her fears and we flew home in a small plane where all was peace and calm but that was it, never again meant exactly that.
I did have a bucket list having been to Lands End many times I had never been to John O Groats, my Daughter knowing this planned and took me on Holiday to Inverness where we did the battlefields and J.O.G then down the Great Glen Ben Nevis and on to Loch Lomond, The Sun shone on us all every day and it was one of the best Holidays apart from Joan not being with me. I would go back.
Sussex Sun I do know how you feel and having been down the Nile can tell you it is not the place we see on the pictures, Luxor is purely tourist even back then, flies stink beggars and danger, we were armed but tourists are not a disappointment best to live with your dreams.
No bucket list as such. There are plenty of things I'd like to do and if they happen they happen. If they don't they don't. No point in getting wound up about things.
We had always 'planned' in the losest sense to go to New Zealand for a month around my 60th birthday. That was scuppered when the banks crashed and took our savings with them. I'd worked for RBS for many years and the vast majority of our savings were in the Share Save scheme.
The dates we had pencilled in, had the trip happened, would have put us in Christchurch on the day of the massive earthquake, so maybe fate took a hand.
I've seen too many friends make plans for the long term only to see them shattered for one reason or another, to do more than live for the now.
Frank my husband and I holidayed in Egypt many times. We saw the pyramids,went to the Egyptian museum in Cairo, crossed the Nile on a rowing boat ( and yes it does smell and you can see dead animals floating by) went to the temple in Luxor. In fact my youngest sons claim to fame is that he has thrown up at every major site in Egypt. He was never a good traveler. I am lucky we had these good times but Paul’s dream was to do the cruise and see the lesser visited sites. I could still go on my own or with my boys buy know I never will. I don’t think I will ever visit Egypt again as that was our family place ( plus the current polital situation is hardly ideal as a tourist)
You are right sometimes things are best left as dreams.
KT53 life has taught me that nothing is guaranteed so the best you can do is make the most of the now. Life is far to short to make lists so if it is important to you do it now as no one gets a guaranteed tomorrow
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
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One of the things I want to do is learn to ice skate backwards. I need to do it before my hips give out.
I can go forwards and stop easy enough, or at least I used to be able to.
Not everything needs to be expensive, just do it while you still can.
I want my best suit cleaned and ironed, I am not going to the great Parade ground in the sky scruffy.
Frank.
How do you know we won't be naked, Frank?
I don't have a bucket list. I've done quite a few of the things I wanted to do, like gallop on a beach (did that in Ireland with my daughter), holiday in Corsica, visit the Beth Chatto garden and Bressingham Gardens, go to Venice with a man I love, ditto Tuscany and Florence. I've been to New York and seen the man I love singing with his choir in Carnegie Hall and then we saw Impressionist paintings in the New York Met art gallery and walked in Central Park.
I would have liked to move back to England, but my children and grandchildren all live in France so we have done the next best thing and bought a little cottage in Norfolk and spend time in France and England.
The main thing is good health and a happy life for me and my family.
Busy Lizzy
NAKED "yikes" No I will be as the photo on the mantle my cleaning lady admires as she dusts it, WO1 best uniform every crease in place and master of all I survey. My bucket list was empty years ago it now contains one wish to never leave this beautiful Country ever again. Seen it done it, had highs many, lows a few, had excitement, too much at times boredom sometimes. In other words I am happy with my lot. My Daughter loves going on cruises and has begged me to go with them, I did many and we called them Troop Ships plus many North sea crossings to the Hook, Hamburg, and even once in the Black Sea, I am cruised out.
A good crop of Tomato's, seeing my Peony's bloom, travelling around our wonderful area Yorkshire Derbyshire Durham Northumberland and the lakes all within a days travel and back to my own warm bed, that is me.
"Err" was that travelling with one love or is there a story to it?
Frank.
I don’t have a bucket list nor do I want one. I just want to live long enough to see both my boys settled and happy then my maker can have me.
Before my husband died we had all sorts of plans for our retirement and the all seem so trivial now. The Nile cruise we were going to have, the trip back to the hotel where we met and the lazy days sunning ourselves on a hot beach mean nothing to me now.
i am happy in my garden and home with my cats and boys. I hope to one day watch my boys fall in love and marry. It would be nice to live long enough to see a grandchild or two but if that is not what they want I am ok with that too. As long as they are happy with their life choices.
""Err" was that travelling with one love or is there a story to it?" - Frank asked on previous page. Answer, the travelling was with 2nd OH. I've had 2 loves, but first one died when I was 47, otherwise the trip to Venice might have been with him. We were too busy bringing up our 4 children then, more family holidays than romantic ones. I was devastated when I lost him but years later I met my 2nd love.
Busy Lizzie, Sorry I was just being nosy, my love of many years passed away seven years ago next month, not a day goes past without I think of her and the wonderful romantic times and places we saw together.
Joan was a ten day girl, ten days anywhere and she was ready for home. Flying home from a month with my Daughter and Grandchildren in California we had a very bad flight. I was used to it having had some scary military flights and slept most of the way for which I got my ears burned, "How could you sleep in that etc." Landing at Heath Row after having to go round again she told me that was it she would never fly again. problem we had to fly to Teesside. I offered to cancel the flight and we would get the train but she hid her fears and we flew home in a small plane where all was peace and calm but that was it, never again meant exactly that.
I did have a bucket list having been to Lands End many times I had never been to John O Groats, my Daughter knowing this planned and took me on Holiday to Inverness where we did the battlefields and J.O.G then down the Great Glen Ben Nevis and on to Loch Lomond, The Sun shone on us all every day and it was one of the best Holidays apart from Joan not being with me. I would go back.
Sussex Sun I do know how you feel and having been down the Nile can tell you it is not the place we see on the pictures, Luxor is purely tourist even back then, flies stink beggars and danger, we were armed but tourists are not a disappointment best to live with your dreams.
Frank.
No bucket list as such. There are plenty of things I'd like to do and if they happen they happen. If they don't they don't. No point in getting wound up about things.
We had always 'planned' in the losest sense to go to New Zealand for a month around my 60th birthday. That was scuppered when the banks crashed and took our savings with them. I'd worked for RBS for many years and the vast majority of our savings were in the Share Save scheme.
The dates we had pencilled in, had the trip happened, would have put us in Christchurch on the day of the massive earthquake, so maybe fate took a hand.
I've seen too many friends make plans for the long term only to see them shattered for one reason or another, to do more than live for the now.
Frank my husband and I holidayed in Egypt many times. We saw the pyramids,went to the Egyptian museum in Cairo, crossed the Nile on a rowing boat ( and yes it does smell and you can see dead animals floating by) went to the temple in Luxor. In fact my youngest sons claim to fame is that he has thrown up at every major site in Egypt. He was never a good traveler. I am lucky we had these good times but Paul’s dream was to do the cruise and see the lesser visited sites. I could still go on my own or with my boys buy know I never will. I don’t think I will ever visit Egypt again as that was our family place ( plus the current polital situation is hardly ideal as a tourist)
You are right sometimes things are best left as dreams.
KT53 life has taught me that nothing is guaranteed so the best you can do is make the most of the now. Life is far to short to make lists so if it is important to you do it now as no one gets a guaranteed tomorrow
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