Looking forward to the next few months?

Love all these positive posts
Looking forward to a friend’s birthday weekend
I also look forward to looking after my granddaughter on a Friday
I take her to toddler ballet and I forget that I am much older than all the mums there

Looking forward to seeing several live operas , seeing all my sons and family and the family camping hol , going to stay with friends in Germany , going to see son and partner in Romania , going to our house in France , getting our new settee after many years of sitting on an old one with sunken springs I re -upholstered myself over 3 years ( never doing that again ) -various gigs and festival stuff - quite a lot really so am lucky

Looking forward to milder weather and to exploring more of the footpaths in our local area. There are hundreds!

MooM00

Bankhurst, I know how you feel my husband died in November. It would have been his 70th Birthday in February. Family still want to celebrate but I don’t think I can.

See my post *MooMoo, we did, and actually it was great and would have been what she wanted x

Bankhurst

Not looking forward to very much, I’m afraid. My husband died unexpectedly in November, and all our plans just disappeared. His 80th birthday celebrations, holidays, theatre visits, days out. I hope that my interest in them will return one day but for now I don’t want to go alone and going with someone else feels worse.
Best wishes to all those of you who have happier prospects.

I'm am sorry - I lost my daughter unexpectedly in November too and am where you are at plus I have no money, and you can't have much of a life without it.

I was looking forward to my garden, it is up some steps which are to be honest too much for me and have been very slippery as I seem to be in a bit of a frost pocket and nothing thawed out until very recently. We laid my daughter's ashes to rest on Friday, (a robin stayed very close to us and even hopped into the hole with her), and Saturday it would have been her 30th birthday so we went to put flowers for her, sang Happy Birthday n the cemetery and the robin was there again, in fact someone actually managed to touch it. I did my own arrangement with flowers from Tescos, and had to go up the garden for some foliage ... the whole thing, that I had spent money on, looked dead. I didn't manage to cut back anything because I just couldn't manage it, and it looks just awful. Everything got very heavily frosted and it looks as though I have lost rather a lot of it. It was a hard weekend, but, as everyone was here we actually had a party for her. Her personality was always very 'big' with extremes of happiness or desperate sadness - so it was loud! We played all her favourite show tunes as she loved musical theatre and had a damned good sing-a-long and dance ... she would have loved it.

Now everyone has gone though and Ii am left alone with my thoughts, and generally disbelief about the whole thing, there's not much to look forward to at all. Sending hugs ...

When I first retired, I volunteered to help 5 and 6 year old's with their reading. I was also asked to assist on school trips. It was lovely.

Startingover61

Inspired by 100-year-old Mr Peter Davies, I’m also applying to volunteer to listen to primary school children reading.
I agree with previous posters about life being too short to be bored.

This is something I have been doing for one morning a week since I retired. It really lifts my spirits. The kids (7/8) are lovely and teachers always very appreciative. Hope you enjoy.

Enjoying this post. It's good to hear what everyone is looking forward to. Sorry if my previous post was rather negative.

Bankhurst, I know how you feel my husband died in November. It would have been his 70th Birthday in February. Family still want to celebrate but I don’t think I can.

Like Kate1949 I have found this thread has really encouraged me to be optimistic, which is difficult sometimes. So thank you Henetha.

It must be exciting for those looking forward to travel. I hope it is all you wish for.

My own big ambition is to get to England from NI. I can't do very much nowadays but I am mostly content and thankful for all I have done in the past, and the many lovely holidays and memories I have.

I know many are sad and not looking forward to what this year will bring, and many are missing loved ones. And I send loving hugs to you, and wish you peace. 💐

Bankhurst my sympathies for your loss. My husband died 2 years ago on Wednesday. Take your bereavement a day at a time. I find there are days when it hits a lot harder than you are expecting even after two years. I hope you have support from friends and family.

I'm starting a pilates class. I did a few classes many years ago but can't even remember why I stopped going. Probably something to do with it clashing with another hobby. This time its in the morning so wont clash with anything else. Also I'm going to look at booking another cruise having done my first last November and enjoyed it.

I’m so sorry, Bankhurst. What a cruel blow. I hope your interest will return before too long, helped perhaps by brighter and warmer days and the flowers coming back again. 💐

I couldn’t think of anything then the Bee Gees ‘Stayin’ Alive’ jumped into my head and now I can’t get rid of it. Staying alive for Spring.

Bankhurst best wishes to you too - I was typing my post while your sad one was landing on GN. I am sorry to hear of your sudden and shocking loss. xx

Spring! And getting some work done in my gardens, back and front. I have all sorts of plans, and live in hope for some days out with the AC and DGC.
Lucca I send you my warmest wishes for a happy few days with your son - may they be peaceful and rewarding. xx

Not looking forward to very much, I’m afraid. My husband died unexpectedly in November, and all our plans just disappeared. His 80th birthday celebrations, holidays, theatre visits, days out. I hope that my interest in them will return one day but for now I don’t want to go alone and going with someone else feels worse.
Best wishes to all those of you who have happier prospects.

I'm looking forward to getting out in the garden. I have plans to move some plants and extend it further so that the lad in the next door flat can see the flowers too. He's very ill and hardly ever goes out. They'll be nicer to look at than the old fence.

We also have 3 short breaks booked for March, May and September and we're hoping to get some camping in this summer. We also have some days out planned to stately homes, YWT and RSPB sites.

We start with Burton Agnes snowdrops in February so not long to wait now.

I’m so looking forward to Spring! Flowers,trees,birds singing. There are signs already and it cheers my soul and lightens my step.

Another thing that is great about your thread Henetha, is how many new and rarely seen names there are here.
You must have the magic touch! 😺

Lovely thread, henetha, looking forward to Spring flowers, Summer blossoms, Autumn fruit and red Winter berries.

So lovely to read about all the things everyone is planning. But so sad that there are people who feel life has nothing left to offer or who cannot afford to so all the things others are doing. to you all.

Yesterday we did the Big Garden Birdwatch, as we always do. I'd forgotten all about it until MrA got the forms out. Sat in the warm doing nothing but watching birds for an hour with a mug of coffee and a cake and a pair of binoculars. Have to say it's a mystery to me why we see less birds on the day of the Birdwatch than we see most days of the year nut never mind, it was a blissful hour .

We are going to Karneval in Germany. We’ve done this for the past 30 years with Town Twinning - it’s tremendous fun, colourful and upbeat and just what you need during the cold grey Winter days. A chance to go crazy and let off steam! Despite the dreaded B….t, we always get a wonderful warm welcome and I wouldn’t miss it for anything. Have a look on Google.

NB. Also looking forward, I hope, to the Gransnet page loading properly. For weeks it has been disappearing, reloading, disappearing again, telling me that there is a problem with the page......it's driving me mad. Is it just my problem, or is anyone else suffering too?

Going to visit my family in Australia very soon. Coming back to find that Spring has arrived and my garden is full of flowers (I hope) Getting back to singing with my choir and trying to catch up with what they've learned in my absence.