Bucket List…..

I close my eyes to bucket lists because I just want to enjoy what I have for as long as I have.

Every bit of fun and achievement is a blessing. Bucket lists are just added pressure.

I'm going to America as part of my Bucket List. Haven't really had much in the way of holidays for the past few years and have realised how nice it is planning for something. I've just done Newmarket and Ely Cathedral [Ely being very much on my list]. Next year will hopefully be the 2,000gns and The Derby. I've never been to Lambourn [the home of NH racing] so that's on the list. I want to go to Birmingham to look at all my old haunts, although I've realised that, being Birmingham, most of it has been pulled down. Cornwall, has been calling to me for a while now. Saltair. And Mr Salts House at Wakefield[or is it Worksop?].Thankfully I live very cheaply to pay for all the things I want to do. I think my list included finishing The Mill on the Floss, but life's too short for that.

So far only got 'ride a horse' on mine.

Just take life as it comes. If you get chance to do anything that for you is amazing, grab the chance - if you want to. But don't dwell on what you haven't done, or why.

No stress man. Peace and love. Enjoy today. Don't bother about seizing it.

It is not something I think about, just muddle merrily through - but I do have an ambition to see the Norther Lights - not likely to be achieved and the world will still keep turning anyway!

Bucket lists don't have to be amazing, they can include little things which you somehow have missed doing. Mine includes going to the Thursday morning coffee morning at the church down the road which we still haven't done in 5 years.

I have ticked some off, balloon ride, seeing youngest child happily married, going back to Cornwall and the microlight flight is booked.

Still have some major things to do and as I tick things off others get added.

Doesn't make me feel pressured because I am a list writer anyway. I don't feel ready to just settle for what comes along so it is good to plan.

Just want to get some of the more physical things over before DH gets any more decrepit!

Reading this makes me think I must get going!

Au revoir.

I agree with jings, I'm just glad to be happy with my life, and not to be living in a cardboard box at the side of the road! (That's always been my greatest fear since I left my first ex)

To go onto the Indian Railway to Simla, same railway journey in Chile to Patagonia. I love to travel, if I was filthy rich I'd never be at home. I'd take long trips, city breaks ,cruises etc all in comfortable style of course. I'm fussy about where I sleep and go to the loo.

I think I must have done my bucket list in my youth. Can't really think of anything else I desperately want to do.

World cruise on Cunard. As I like the grills class I think it would cost £40,000 therefore not a hope unless I win the lottery or pools, neither of which I do!

I only have two things left on my wish list: to see the Northern Lights and to see the Ice Festival at Harbin.

It looks like my eldest granddaughter, my son and I will be off to Tromso this winter to see if we can catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights - although solar activity was supposed to peak in 2013, it is thought that there is a double peak so we might be lucky!

Holly DS has been to Norway and Iceland but the best sighting of the aurora was near his home in County Durham. There is a photo on pictures.
Did I really say Italy was on my bucket list ? no I haven't been yet but there again I haven't been anywhere very much since GC started school.

It's fun to have a bucket list, even if we know most of the things on it are unrealistic. Anyway, it gives us something to aim at.
And I agree with Nonnie, they don't have to be all big things.
I am now going to make 2 bucket lists... One for big almost unachievable things (but you never know!) and one for small things which I think I can achieve before I turn up my toes.

No, I haven't made it to the Chelsea Flower Show yet Boheminan! I can't remember what else was on my then list but I am desperate to get to Glyndebourne before it's too late, to do a few solo trips in Oz the next time I visit DD. I would also like to visit St. Petersburg and southern Italy. I have absolutely no desire to launch myself from an airplane, ascend in a balloon or jump off a cliff into raging waters . I think my biggest aim in life is to actually finish to satisfaction, something which I have started, however small - story of my life........

I have long ago come to terms that there are things I'll never do or see. It doesn't bother me. Unexpected pleasures sometimes arise and there are wonderful things to see in this country. For example, I have seen most of the English cathedrals but recently went to visit Winchester for the first time. What other cathedral can rival that roof? People rave about the pretty villages and fantastic churches they 'discover' in Tuscany or the Dordogne. I will probably have to settle for Britain. And why not?

Visiting the lovely places on the East coast of England, amongst other places. Visiting NT places - not many near us unfortunately!

I want to make all the quilts I have planned and use up all my stash of material. I'm doing my gap year in reverse in stages. I still would like to get to Malaysia and Hawaii . DH is not enthusiastic about those two.

dorset not so sure you should go by train, we did that in India and it was supposed to be first class, it was not nice. Of course if you can make the Maharaja Express I'm sure that is very nice!

Marmight we did St Petersburg in a February and it was wonderful. Very cold of course but that was part of the charm and they built an ice house outside the Hermitage. Hermitage was disappointing so I wouldn't bother with that.

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I don't think that has copied bit the mention of Simla made me think of it; one of my favourite poems.

Reading through this thread leaves me with a feeling of comfort.

I agree, life's too short to sit around making lists, or to quote John Lennon 'Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans' but for me personally there's a feeling of achievement if I do something out of the ordinary I've always wanted to do, but haven't had the courage to do (like being a fairy for a day!) I do remember a long time ago a dying aunt of mine expressing her annoyance that she never did 'get round to horse riding across Exmoor'.

I'm glad y ou got to be a fairy for a day.

Even if my mind does slightly boogle at the fact.

'boggle'! not 'boogle'

Well I've been to Venice, I've been to the Monaco Grand Prix, I've seen the mask of Tutankhamun, I've hugged Gino Di Campo and today I met Bob The Street Cat!!! I think that's most of my boxes ticked