I have never.....!

I havent been into our loftwe have lived here for five years, but you access this loft you have to go outside and get a ladder, then climb up it outside no matter what the weather,I must add we live in Sweden, so it is not only dangerous its flipping cold, but I hold the ladder, with gloves on, so that my Husband can climb the ladder then climb into the loft, the circus is when he has to climb down backwards,now you all know why I dont attempt it. It may be a bit too dangerous for a lady of mature years and not so elegant either!

I've never known all the words to the national anthem.

Having been left on my own with a big house and a 6 year old, I dredged up lost skills from living in my own flat alone ..plugs, spiders, juggling a full time job and money (ex was a compulsive gambler ..I have NEVER gambled and wouldn't want to ! can't even bear to buy a lottery ticket ) (although I have, because you never know !) Then met and married a super DIY enthusiast who never let me do anything because 'youwon't do it right'...now he has a disabling illness so I have again dredged up my skills and do most thing ...look after the car (BUT hee hee I have found a lovely young man at the garage who will check my tyre pressures, oil, etc etc for a tip ...sadly because of arthritis in myhands I am totally unable to undo the little plugs to check the air)......I no longer mow the lawn as I have found again, another lovely young man to come along ...only takes him half an hour with his sit on mower, used to take me 3 hours ! he also trims all the trees and bushes ...of course I pay him the going rate, and all he ever wants is a bottle of water bless him ! Finding someone to renew some broken tiling around the house is however proving difficult ...if I could bend down, I would do it ...and lightbulbs my husband insisted on down lights in every room and fancy on the ceiling glass shade things ...I simply CANNOT change those ...but again, when the firemen were round selling their calendar I asked them to come in and replace the batteries in my smoke alarms which they did !! I hate having to ask people to do things I used to do ....when we moved to a bungalow I suggested to my husband (who was then 73) that we make it EASY to live ..i.e. no enormous trees in the garden (it was new then) SO we have 12 trees and a huge willow tree ...hedges all round rock gardens, shrubs, flowers, a wooden pergola shed, and they all need so much maintenance ...my neighbours were all sensible and most have a path round the garden and a lawn, with a few flower tubs .....simples ! I am enviously eyeing up a retirement flat .......bliss

Well, that's a relief.
One less thing to do..

MissAdventure - you’ve missed nothing by not reading The DaVinci Code. One of the worst books I’ve ever read.

I have a friend who went on a very steep learning curve when her marriage broke down- she didn’t know how to put fuel in her car! I have never pulled a pint and have no intention of learning

Avoid chocolate fountains like the plague! The only way to make chocolate flow like that is to mix it with copious amounts of oil and having been shown just how much oil to chocolate I would never touch one again.

I have never driven on a motorway.
I have never been up in our loft, but have peeked through the hatch - too scary, if I did manage the courage to get up there I would never get down again....
I have never swum in the deep end of the pool.

I never learned to ice skate or roller skate and it's too late now.

I can put up shelves but don't. If DH dies before I do, I shall sell the house and move to something smaller, probably a flat or sheltered accommodation and will look for somewhere where there is a janitor cum handyman to do the things I can't.

I find cats preferably to mouse-traps, but I have once fished a dead mouse out of a bath-tub! Using the coal tongs and a piece of newspaper, I may say.

I've never played any form of sport.

And looking at those "oldies" of my acquaintance who always boasted about how sport made them healthier than me, I'm amused to see that they are now full of arthritis and I'm not.

I regret this hugely but I never learned to ice-skate.

Sorry, I went off piste there (another thing I never want to do!).

One ordinary, everyday thing I've never done is worm a pet. Thank goodness.

Grandma70s - not even Father Christmas?

When my Dad died in 1992, my brother and I were very concerned about my Mum as she 'had never' done much to be honest - run a bank account, paid a bill, even had a chequebook! But she did manage in the end and is still managing now well into her 80's bless her, she is fitter than I am to be honest ...... !

Or you may just find that unblocking a drain or emptying a mouse trap isn't what it's cracked up to be, Orelse.....

If you've got so far without doing these things, just count your blessings! My lovely bucket list contains things I really want to do, not those I (or other people) think I should.

I have never warn a pair of jeans!

Never bungee jumped - thought about it once and chickened out

Never Skydived

Never taken illegal drugs

Never emptied a mouse trap either - thankfully never had to, never want to

Never had a tattoo

I have never smoked weed or knowingly smelt it. I wonder what it smells like. Friends tell me I must have smelt it some time not knowing what it was.

Right everyone ! Make your " haven't done " list ( not too extreme) and this year DO IT ! You may find a treasure in the loft , or find you were a boffin at cars or electric things , you may join a Rock Choir ( this I would recommend as great fun , ) or do something outlandish .... but this year DO I T !
Happy new year everyone

I have never set or emptied a mouse trap. As we live in an old farm house it does need done at times. But I have bordering on a phobia about mice and don’t start me on rats. I have to lock myself in the bathroom if a mouse trap is being emptied!

Never voted Labour
Never been on death defying rides at Theme Parks
Never been on a long haul flight
Never absailed
Never done a bungee jump
Never been potholing
Never done a skydive
Never been diving/snorkelling
Never used electric/petrol hedge trimmers
Never climbed a mountain
Never taken drugs alcohol yes

Lastly I had never put petrol in a car until after DH died but can check oil.water & screen wash, however I can't check tyre pressures

Never eaten guacamole
Never taken drugs
Never dived with sharks.... met a few though!
Never made a souffle
Never voted Labour
Never properly learned to crochet

I’ve never voted Tory, had a hangover, or learnt to swim. I had the opportunity to learn to swim, but didn’t want to. No regrets about that.

By the way hubby and I went on our very first skiing trip when he was 64 and I was 63. We both learned to ski but not beyond beginner level. Since he died I have been on a lot of adventure holidays, such as Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, (where I snorkled for the first time and climbed a volcano), Vietnam, and Brazil, As I am now 77 my advice to anyone wanting to do these things is go with a well known travel company which runs escorted holidays. I have various disabilities and everybody running these trips are all so kind and helpful.
I have never been to a music festival and on opening my latest Sago brochure I see they actually do a trip which includes one. Their guests get put up in glamping tents with loos. So I might yet go.

I have never used an automated car wash. I'm afraid I won't stop in the right place, or I'll stop too close to the brushes.