Anything planned yet for 2025 ?

The first hurdle to overcome is the emigration of grand daughters with their parents next week to Brisbane ! Then we can recover and make plans

We're going away tomorrow. Only for a weekend but it will be a nice change. We have no idea where we're going because it's a coach mystery tour but at £49 each for a coach trip, BBED in a hotel and visits to somewhere, we couldn't resist.

After beating cancer in 2024, looking forward to a fortnight in Spring cruising around the Med and to Greece and already booked our third World Cruise for Jan 2026. Could do with renovating the too-large house we are in or preferably downsizing if I can get DH to agree. Or at least decluttering this place as it is in a mess.

Hope that my youngest DD is successful on their third attempt at IVF.

Need to consider selling the touring caravan and getting a second-hand motorhome (smallish) for UK trips cos towing is getting too much for us.

Yes we are lucky with our finances, easy to say we earned it all but not everyone is able to do that. So hope that those of you wish reduced incomes are able to find plenty to enjoy too.

Three very significant birthdays to celebrate in 2025, though no idea how yet. And an exhibition we are involved in, in the summer. Calendar already beginning to fill up.

We have had rotten year so the stuff we have planned is much needed.

Canaries in a couple of weeks and a med one for the summer. will do a short one in Feb as well. I like short hols.

heavenlyheath

Gosh you all seem to be spending a lot of money on expensive trips

My thoughts exactly, heavenly,

It seems that many are planning holidays. What FUN!! I have no plans to travel for vacation, but do plan a trip to see my first great grandson again, when he turns one in June.

I read the following the other day:

So, as we start a new year, what are you packing in your suitcase for 2025?

Patience, optimism, hope, resilience, acceptance, and serenity, or are you full of frustration, annoyance, resistance, fear, bitterness, irritation, impatience, and anger?

Your experience will be determined by what you pack and how prepared you are, not by anything or anyone else.

Hopefully I am going to an old college friend’s 70th birthday party in February. Hopefully a few more old friends will be there. Then I have booked a cottage in Northumberland for a week in April. I love the Northumberland coast and I am looking forward to visiting the bookshop in Alnwick, Barter Books. Hopefully the books I buy will fit in the car!

We never plan ahead really, we just go as we fancy. Just as well really because my husband is still in hospital after a haemorrhagic stroke 5 weeks ago.

As often happens when people decide to finally retire something terrible happens. He was still working part time at 71 not knowing what was round the corner. He used to come home regularly with tales of people we know who retire one day and then drop dead or suffer a stroke or heart attack the next.

So, no plans for 2025.

heavenlyheath

Gosh you all seem to be spending a lot of money on expensive trips

I thought that! Why not if you’ve got spare disposable income & I dare say at our age some might have been given an inheritance. My 70y old friend is just planning what to splurge hers on this year. She said “definitely a fancy cruise and perhaps a big new hybrid car”.

South African safari for my 65th birthday in May, top of my bucket list, can't wait 😃

I've been signed up by my boss to do a specific qualification. I wasn't asked first. So my year will be juggling two jobs and completing that. I was actually thinking of leaving this particular job as it's exceedingly stressful and requires a 24hour shift every week which, frankly, is becoming a bit too much nowadays especially when the bulk of the work happens when I'm supposed to be off shift and sleeping (ie between midnight and 7am). By the time I've finished the qualification, I'll have just over a year until I'm due to retire and it's not one I can use post retirement. It seems a bit daft to me.

If all goes to plan, we have 3 holidays booked so far this year. The first for a week to Porto in March, then 2 weeks to Zakynthos in July, followed by 10 days in Kefalonia in September. Our 13 year old granddaughter plays football for Swansea City, so we'll probably stay a night or two when they have away games. hubby is 70 in October, so finances allowing we might squeeze in a few days somewhere then.

Nanna8. I've been to the Hermitage a wonderful museum especially the gold room. We went on a cruise to enable us to visit more easily. That way we had a very early morning booking and avoided the crowds and were also allowed into rooms that were otherwise closed to most visitors. When we left the place was heaving. We did think of going on our own but even the visa appln was offputting, no way could we remember dates and even countries we'd visited in the previous 10 yrs, (don't get passport stamps in all places) and I was very wary of guessing dates and places and maybe getting into trouble if incorrect.

Off to Costa Rica in the spring and planning a trip to Oz and NZ in the autumn plus other little trips in between. So many places to see and time is running out!

Yes, unfortunately it is - no sign of Lewy bodies. It’s possibly caused by some brain damage, also she is very deaf now (which came on around ten years’ ago). She responded well to antipsychotic meds whilst in hospital (she has been sectioned twice - can you imagine, at age 94….??!). Going away may possible trigger it off again as she also has anosognosia (an inability to know that you are ill). She has no signs of dementia. So there we are…….

No, as yet I have no definate plans for this year.

I would like to go away for a while in the late summer, but that will depend upon whether I can find a boarding kennel for my two cats within a reasonable distance of my home, and whether the municipality starts the new drainage and sewage system, seperating rainwater from sewage that they were supposed to have done in 2024.

The point about this is that householders have to pay for the new drains on their property, and as no-one seems to know how much work will be needed, where the existing drains are (unbelievable but true!) estimates vary wildly, and if I have to pay the highest estimate, then holidays will just not be possible.

I spent most of the past year redecorating the house and painting the outsides of the window frames. This year if the weather is warm and dry in May or June (some hope!) I ought to do the last five window-frames and renew the front garden fence.

Obviously any holiday will need to be cheap.

First winning a million with my bonds. Hoping to go and see my son in Gibraltar in May with one daughter and a week in Wales with my other daughter and while there visit my sister near Tenby. I plan on moving house too all these plans will take place assuming my ŕeally bad back pain at the moment improves.

Try to get back into yoga, which I let slide last year. Maybe get out my long put-aside acrylic paints and canvases and produce a couple of abstract masterpieces!

Getting ready for DS2’s wedding in Barcelona April 2026. So some serious dieting hopefully followed by some clothes shopping as we’re all staying at the villa for a week.

We have booked to see Joseph, the holiday show, Shirley Valentine and have booked a week in Yorkshire Dale's for four of us in March. Not looked further than that yet, but will be doing so soon.

A Bruce Springstein and an Ed Sheeran concert. Weekend in Paris to see Notre Dame. A wedding in Canada and main holiday will be Japan in autumn. And retirement !

Not a great deal planned at the moment in way of holidays. 3 Springsteen UK gigs booked and greatly anticipated and may venture to some of the European dates ❤️. 3 granddaughters recently moved to UK so ending our frequent Asia trips but will hopefully spend extensive time with them here. Things have the habit of just turning up. Bring it on

Charleygirl5

Staying alive!

Me too