Looking forward to the next few months?

They are supposed to be quite helpful, Lindaa4. So, fingers crossed it helps you.
You’re right about the grey, cold, damp weather - it certainly affects my mood.

I’m really looking forward to seeing my dad on Sunday! 🥰

I have been feeling down in the dumps, I think it’s the weather, not being able to get out so much. I have just bought a daylight therapy lamp to see if that helps

I really appreciate this thread Henetha. .it is both sobering and interesting to read about people's different circumstances.. I have become, after a dark winter, more proactive in contacting people and made a few arrangements to meet up with them. and inspired by all the amazing trips and activities that you are all planning.. and yesterday I booked 2 three day landscape painting courses.

I am looking forward to seeing the Peaky Blinders musical with Ballet Rambert involved in the production. Also a holiday in Padstow (love Cornwall) followed by another family holiday. Trying very hard to get tickets for a heavily subscribed Fisherman's Friends concert and won't give up just yet.

I'm looking forward to year where I no longer have to have any correspondence/contact with my ex husband and to meeting a decent man with a zest for life to grow old disgracefully with. Also more holidays in the sun 🌞

Please don’t feel unsettled about starting this thread henetha. It’s a lovely idea.
Yes, I would imagine for the vast majority of us there have been times when things have been hard, with seemingly little to look forward to, and it’s very true that there are many who feel that right now, and that shouldn’t be ignored or dis-regarded; but I think that it’s also true to say that every single one us appreciates reading and hearing about positive things happening in peoples lives, and that reading/hearing these things can give us all a little lift and perhaps even some hope in what can sometimes seem a very dark world. So henetha thank you for starting this thread. 😊

I’m looking forward to my coming trip to England this March….such a treat to enjoy an English Spring! Canada is still in the depths of winter at that time of the year.

I am looking forward to this new hip getting stronger, getting back into my car and then being able to pick up the threads of my life again, which ground to a halt last year when DH died. But now is the time to look forward to getting back in the saddle and finding new things to give me hope for the future.
And I’m looking forward to seeing my only grandchild turn 16 in a couple of weeks time. He’s a lovely young man!

Abso-bloody-nothing sadly, unless I get get a free ticket to the Cheltenham Gold cup in March, and can find someone to take me.

I haven't even got the money to go out and have a coffee and a bun, as that would use up a third of my weekly food money. Without money, you cannot have any sort of life at all ....

Looking forward to the bulbs coming out,the forsythia,and the succession of lovely blooms and raspberries! Re designing part of the garden to include seating to sit in the late afternoon sun.
Not decided on hols yet.

I’m looking forward to feeling better in this bereavement stage of my life after my husband died after taking his own life in November. Also when probate is all done and every horrid feelings that go with it. My retirement has been snatched away. I hope as the year moves on to the Summer I will have a clearer view of a new chapter and I am looking forward to that whatever it may bring.

Looking forward to seeing GS and family. Also holiday to Canadian Rockies and Alaska . then Galapgos

Kandinsky

I don’t look forward to much anymore tbh.
I feel ( at 59 ) that the best is over.
And that’s not me being morbid or unhappy, I just don’t feel the same about life as I did when I was younger.
My children are all adults now with their own lives. I used to love planning for them, ( us ) now it’s just me & dh it’s quite often boring.
life is good, but there’s no hunger to achieve anything if you know what I mean.
We’ve done it all.
But I am looking forward to warmer weather 😊

I know what you mean (though I'm 70, so older) as we don't live the most exciting of lives so I don't look forward to things in the same way. However I'm happy and very content with the life that we have. We downsized and moved to be near two of my children and grandchildren two years ago and have finished our renovation so live a very comfortable life now.
I don't feel the neccessity to plan exciting things in the way we used to as I am very happy just living my life.
I agree with you about the weather, we love to eat outside on our balcony overlooking the river as soon as the weather warms up.

Looking forward to Girl From the North Country and an evening with Neighbours cast.
Looking forward to a trip to see a friend in the Lake District, whom I haven't seen for 3 years, and on to my son in Lancashire, with or without husband. I hope M.E. allows me.

More importantly as Gundy says an end to Ukraine invasion and getting rid of Putin.

Im looking forward to my cruise in 4 weeks and hopefully Spring is round the corner here when I’m back home . I love seeing the daffodils and tulips flower

70th Birthday in March. Not relishing that one and don’t want a party or a lot of fuss. Very grateful to have reached it however after a couple of illnesses over recent years. Busy year ahead then as Bruce Springsteen touring and we are packing our cases and our passports and following him to a few gigs. Also taking adored grandog to the coast for a week in summer. Just me him and daughter. Cant wait

We are off to Cape Verde on Thursday for a 2 week sunshine break. Then in March we have tickets to see Graham Gouldman (10cc) and then Shirley Valentine with Sheridan Smith in London on our 54th Wedding Anniversary in April. Hopefully we are also going to see my middle son in Australia for Xmas. Can’t wait for all these things although don’t want to wish my life away. It’s going quick enough as it is

• An end to the Ukraine war, with a victory would be nice
• Not my birthday (I hate MY birthday), but I love celebrating yours!
• An election outcome on my state’s Supreme Court contest tipping the balance to a liberal majority preserving women’s rights!
• My youngest (33 yr old) Niece’s wedding
• A coup in the Kremlin
Cheers!
USA Gundy

We are looking forward to DH finally qualifying for his pension this summer. Our government has increased pension age so much for those born after 1952 like DH that he has had to wait six years longer for his pension than we had planned for.

Crossing our fingers that they don't sabotage his pension once again. If it goes through we intend to get an estimate for having the loft over the main house insulated, which should make a great difference to our heating bills.

New windows and outer doors will probably need to wait til next year, but should be possible then.

I dream of having the front garden paved, and finding a garderner to mow grass and cut hedges in the back garden.

And we both long to go away for a holiday.

I feel it is unlikely that we will be able to do it all, but there is no harm in hoping or getting estimates, is there?

warm weather this winter i have been on blood thinners due to heart problem and they have made me really feel the cold cannot bear feeling cold all the time even when the heating is on i am often cold

Going to see my niece at a local theatre as she has the lead female role in Kinky Boots ...with the local stage society .

Im looking forward to my 70th birthday next month and a trip to Edinburgh with my lovely daughter who has arranged it all and paid for it ..family get together and a great girlie afternoon with all my female family and friends .

We are having our thrice postponed trip to Vietnam and Cambodia in March. We should have gone the week the first lockdown was announced but luckily our lovely travel agent was able to sort things after a colleague's clients ended up in quarantine in Hanoi or Saigon!!!

I am looking forward to going to Palma with 3 girl friends in April for 5 nights. I am leaving hubby behind