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If you could experience something for a day

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travelsafar Fri 05-Nov-21 22:20:57

If you could have the above what would it be. I would like to experience being young, fit ,slender and beautiful just to know how that feels. Oh yes with long blonde hair too.smile

Witzend Sat 06-Nov-21 13:26:38

I’d like to go back in time, too, but billions of generations, back in a direct maternal line to when my multi-billion-times maternal ancestor was a fish.

Yes, I know I’m weird, but wouldn’t it be interesting? Especially if I could stop off en route to see the intervening ape, small mammal, reptile, amphibian.

FarNorth Sat 06-Nov-21 13:18:09

Albatross would be wonderful too, tho.

FarNorth Sat 06-Nov-21 13:17:32

muse what dedication to GN, to spend your day doing that!

As you've got that sorted, I'd be a professional dancer (not ballet) on a day when we have three shows to do (and I do already know what I'm doing in them).

NotTooOld Sat 06-Nov-21 13:04:07

I'd go back to my teaching job for a day, just to remind myself how I loved it.

muse Sat 06-Nov-21 12:54:45

Jaxjacky has given me a light bulb moment.

I'd like to be a GN moderator for the day. I'd need the full 24 hours to sort out a few things. No tea or dinner breaks!

The main task would be to instigate the long list of GN changes that were suggested by posters months ago. There would certainly be a tightening up on the "General Ps and Qs" Talk Guidelines and as for deletions ...

Jaxjacky Sat 06-Nov-21 12:16:27

I’d like to speak my mind all day, with no repercussions afterwards.

Larsonsmum Sat 06-Nov-21 12:08:26

Illness and pain free

PollyTickle Sat 06-Nov-21 12:06:08

Just for a day and not a minute more I’d like to be Richard Branson and see how it feels to run a huge business empire.

Doodledog Sat 06-Nov-21 11:48:11

I'd borrow TerriBull's time machine, and when I'd finished chatting to my ancestors as far back as I could go, I'd go for a look around Stonehenge when it was being used for whatever it was meant for, and if there was time I'd go to see a performance of King Lear at The Globe during its first run. I'm guessing that with the use of a time machine I could make the day stretch a bit longer than 24 hours grin.

GrannyMacawell Sat 06-Nov-21 11:37:00

real poverty.

Daisend1 Sat 06-Nov-21 11:09:30

To experience for a day what it must be like when you are HRH QE 11.

Shinamae Sat 06-Nov-21 11:01:21

I would like a day with my late father and brother and aunt May..

LilacChaser Sat 06-Nov-21 11:00:42

A day of being free of worrying about the future, financially.

muse Sat 06-Nov-21 10:57:55

Contentment please and I’d share it with my two AC who need some too.

Juliet27 Sat 06-Nov-21 10:57:01

I’d like another day with my children when they were 5 and 3

nanna8 Sat 06-Nov-21 10:51:00

A bird, preferably a big one with talons to protect me. Wedge tail would do it and I could have a nice feed of frogs and rabbits.

Scones Sat 06-Nov-21 10:17:52

Please tell us more about being an albatross Hetty58. I'm fascinated.

TerriBull Sat 06-Nov-21 09:53:38

As it's a very hypothetical question what I'd really like to be able to do, which is impossible, would be to time travel back to meet some of my ancestors and ask them "why did you do that? what happened then?, how did that come about " So many questions since I embarked on genealogy I'd like answers to. Of course I may well get a "don't be so impertinent, none of your business" answer given these people were of their time and far less candid than we are today shock

Scones Sat 06-Nov-21 09:44:23

I'd like to be able to travel through time. I'd especially like to go back to one of the houses I've lived in and see what it was like there just after it was built in the 1730s - who was living there, what were they wearing and eating, how was it decorated, what everything smelled like.

Lucca Sat 06-Nov-21 09:30:07

MissAdventure

Would any of you women want to come to dinner with a handsome, bearded man, when you've finished flamenco dancing and horse riding? grin

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FindingNemo15 Sat 06-Nov-21 09:27:11

Same as Kate1949 - oh to feel happy!

AGAA4 Sat 06-Nov-21 08:46:35

I would be an expert surfer and for that I would have to be young and fit for the day.

Chestnut Fri 05-Nov-21 23:40:09

I'm with travelsafar in wanting a day being young and fit again with no aches and pains. Although how awful when the day was over!

Kate1949 Fri 05-Nov-21 23:33:39

Being happy

MissAdventure Fri 05-Nov-21 23:29:05

Would any of you women want to come to dinner with a handsome, bearded man, when you've finished flamenco dancing and horse riding? grin