Things I have not done....

Riden a horse. My balance ain't so good now so wouldn't like to risk it, but in my dreams I'm galloping along a beach through the surf.

DH and I would love to go to Italy to see an opera, need to do it soon before bum and legs get too old for sitting on stone.

Yes proud as a retirement present to ourselves Mr A booked us an all-inclusive holiday in Barbados.
We had never had a beach holiday before. It was fabulous and I had never felt so relaxed and contented.

Sorry deviating from the topic.
Things I haven't done and now won't, include ski-ing and learning to ride a motorbike

Go proud don't wait, plan and make it happen. I could suggest several!

I have not written a novel.

I have lots of notes and quite a few pages. it's just the joining bits that are missing.

Life keeps getting in the way.

I just want to sit for an entire day, doing absolutely nothing, on an empty white sand beach with turquoise sea.

Not much to ask, is it?

I wrote a bucket list soon after we retired and have done quite a lot of it already. It should include easy to do things too. One of the ones I have so far failed on is the coffee morning down the road on Thursday mornings. will get there one day when I have time!

Big things include China and parts of South America which are still waiting to be done. I will get there though.

I don't think I want to write a bucket list. Suppose I manage to do everything on it and I'm still standing. Would life lose its meaning for me? Would I have to think of more things that I don't want to do so much to put on a B-grade bucket list? And then suppose I complete all those and have to write a list of things I really don't want to do at all – eat jellied eels, read Fifty Shade of Grey, ride a roller coaster, give up wine – to make a C-grade bucket list …

Visit :
Chelsea Flower Show - next year I will go
Eire
Scandinavia to visit an old friend of my parents - better hurry up she's 87 now
John O'Groats
Skye
Glyndebourne- I was offered a job there in 1970 but refused - silly me
Russia

Sail just one leg on a tall ship (left or right? )
Learn to knit properly (I'll save that for my dotage)
Overcome my fear of heights
Lose weight once and for all

Granny 23 , you have been a very busy girl !

Funnily enough we were talking about bucket lists today. DD2, who is approaching the big 40, is working through her '40 things to do' list and today she (accompanied) by DD1 successfully tackled the 3000+ hill at the back of our house. I have climbed it umpteen times so I did the childminding. Set me thinking though about all the things I have managed to cross off my informal list since I retired - been to Edinburgh Tattoo, also the end of festival fireworks, a luxury spa, the World Pipe Band Championships, the Tall Ships Race, saw the Simon Bolivar Orchestra live, been a 'crowd artist' (film extra), been on a luxury cruise, travelled across Canada and there saw Niagara Falls, flew in a seaplane and bathed in a hot spring pool in the snow. I have visited Venice and Istanbul (both disappoining) and sadly crossed Mardi Gras in Rio off my list as no longer do-able. Am currently plotting to fulfil a recent addition to the list - to attend an open air Andre Rieu concert - indoors in the UK would be a poor substitute. I've STILL never been across the sea to Ireland......and a few more still to do.

My bucket list includes:
white water rafting
going to Stonehenge
seeing the Northern Lights
whale watching
dancing at the Tower Ballroom (but not stay overnight in Blackpool)
riding a motorbike
driving a fast car around a circuit
riding a horse
stroking a lion, a tiger and a wolf......could be the last thing I on my list lol

Seeing Fjiordland and Mt. Cook. Cross country skiing. Parascending. White water rafting again. Roller dancing again. (Proper dances, not disco).
Visiting Rome, Heidelberg, Berlin, Granada and Seville (again), Barceona (going in three weeks), snorkeling on various Pacific islands.
Hugging my daughter and her children.