Just imagine in a few days ….

2025 wasn't a great year for me in some respects but good in others. Mum died and I had a fight with a train and a platform leading to damage to my leg. However I had cataract surgery and can see so much better. My son got back in touch with us and is coming for Christmas and I continue to have good friends and family.
I'm hoping for better health for me and happiness for my family. I wish for peace in the world.

Three months into doing up our project house. I hope that Spring will bring planning permission for a relocated kitchen, and Autumn for changing the location of our off road parking and that we go into next Chirstmas, with a house in order with curtains and decorated.

Like Grandmabatty 2025 had some lows for me.

I was critically ill in the summer due to a misdiagnosis by GP.My niece took her own life and two people close to us died.At the moment my mum is unwell and we are unable to visit due to a flu outbreak in the care home.

On the plus side I have my husband and lovely family and my health is improving.

For 2025 I wish for continued improvement in my health and that of all who I know who are struggling and for happiness for our family and friends, well for everyone really.Peace on earth would be good too🙏🏻

We had a good but busy and at times stressful 2025.
We moved house but it all seems a distant memory now!

I hope 2026 brings us continued health.

Ups and downs through this year as always.

I guess next year will be similar, though we have some landmarks coming along - DGS1 has GCSEs in the summer and DGD2 will start school in September.

I always start the new year with optimism and am fortunate that things generally turn out ok in the end, if not quite how I envisaged them!
My wish for 2026 is for peace, both globally and for each individual. I hope it brings more ups than downs for all of us, and the strength to deal with both.

We too had ups and downs in 2025. I don't like odd numbers so always feel more positive when the year is even. Mind you 2020 was even and look how that turned out. I HATE January so much I can barely function until the 1st February. Every day is torture and drags on. January feels longer than all the other months together.

I sort of don't want to think what 2026 might hold. I suppose I'll just have to go with the flow as usual and hope for the best but, as usual, will expect the worst. I'm very good at worrying.

I just want some light evenings so I do not feel so trapped. Can't wait to be able to go out to everything in the evenings without having to steel myself.

I live in the middle of nowhere with no street (well lane really!) lighting and it is black as pitch.

I have pre-ordered my summer plants - Tidal wave Petunia, Osteospermum, Fuschia, also late Tulip bulbs as recommended by Monty. I look forward to spring and summer in the garden.

I just want more of the same next year, please.

I want world peace for 2026.
Good health and happiness for all Gransnetters too

I want warmth and lightness
I want Reform to disappear down a tunnel I want racism and far right stuff to disappear with it and England to get back to acceptance and welcome as we were before
I want the world to learn acceptance and care and stop fighting each other and I want Trump to disappear up his own trouser leg

well cant say 2025 was brilliant for me one way and another, however I do always try to start the new year in an optomistic way , and look forward to things I enjoy even if ,practically speaking ,I expect to see pigs flying overhead before I manage to do some of my wishes.

So the most important one of course is I plan to keep breathing, to allow me to do the other things!! So I am hoping to still do some travelling, whether that is just a short journey somewhere reasonably local or maybe still travel abroad if funds and health allow, I now have my new travelling buggy, which I hope is going to keep me independant for as long as possible and still have the Yellow Peril to go around locally. So I plan to be reasonably sensible and in the next few weeks, check car - already had MOT ok, and buggies are all working fine and ready for me to go travelling on. Hope to get to the coast and enjoy seeing the sea, if I cant get on to the sea. Maybe I shall have chance to at least do a little sailing in the Lakes if not out at sea, I do miss it very much , it is so wonderful when you are actually sailing at the best angle possible and the yacht is creaming through the water with the lovely sound of the wind and the waves.

I still hope to improve on physical health and am making plans to ensure that I do at least do a bit of walking when I can, so I am thinking now of where there is a park or pleasant area to walk in, and work out whether I need to get there by yellow peril or by car and other buggy. It seems to me that wanting to visit a garden or go up the dales somewhere will keep me making the effort to keep mobile. , rather than spending time walking on ordinary pavements in towns etc, keep the walking for the parks or gardens , so must make sure my locks are good for the buggies too.

Another area which has rather tailed off is swimming, so I might see another swimming costume in the sales and buy it. Having spent money on a new costume , will definitely add to the impetus to get swimming again. I have already signed up for a short course in the new year to ensure that I am up to date in safety things online and I really need to get to grips with Zoom as I will need to use that to do the Talking Newspaper, and I should really make more of an effort to keep up to date. I also equally plan to do LESS of boring things, things that I dont enjoy as much or at all any more , and still hope to enjoy something I know nothing about at the moment. No idea what it will be, I will know when I see it! I shall continue to ignore fashion, soap operas , bake offs and sewing bees etc etc and be grateful for the wonderful music I can still hear for free on radio 3. Long may it last. Well am practising breathing well at the moment in preparation for next year!

I’m with you totally. Fingers crossed that two of us wanting it makes it happen.

2025 was not good for us, as our beloved son-in-law died in March, after a 5 year battle with cancer.

He has left our daughter and two teenage children.

My chronic kidney disease worsened, which makes me very tired most of the time.

I also have IBS which often results in embarrassing and messy accidents.

But, I have my adored husband, two daughters and three grandchildren. I can still do things sometimes. Lots to be very thankful for.

I feel very grateful for my life and relatively good health plus lovely family and friends!
Grandchildren emigrated this year so that was our biggest loss ! However, we plan to visit next November so that is a project ! Allotment was successful so keeps other half busy
I need to swim again plus hope to volunteer at the local primary school to help with reading! Onwards and upwards I always say !

I support bluebelle in her wishes for a compassionate, more equal and open society. For myself I hope for my daughter to recover from her partner leaving her and DGD.

I would like people to just get on with each other. Accept their differences and respect their beliefs. Stop the hate and conflict, it gets us nowhere. Too much to hope for for, but that's what I would like.

Like some of you 2025 hasn’t been brilliant for me, but then neither have been ‘21, ‘22, ‘23.p and ‘et. (And, no, I haven’t broken any mirrors!)
I have decided that the Fates are not going to take over ‘26, and it’ll be a great year!
Peace on earth would be fabulous, Putin having an epiphany would be miraculous, ditto all the other hating factions.

I don't have any particular hopes for 2026 - the liklihood of a fair peace for Ukraine is remote, and I destest January and February, March is only marginally better,

So no, I am not looking forward to the New Year, bringing as it does the anniversary of my sister's death on Ne'erday!

2025 was a mixed year for us. In April I suffered a rotator cuff injury of my left shoulder which left me unable to use my left arm and constant pain. It also made sleeping on my side, which is my preference, very uncomfortable and initially impossible. It is still almost impossible.

In July we celebrated our Diamond Wedding anniversary with a lovely low key family party and a card from the KIng. Then at the end of that month, I suffered an Anterior Cruciate ligament injury while struggling to get up from the sofa, using only my right arm.

Thankfully DH has continued in his cancer recovery journey and has kept well and able to take on most of the gardening which I did before my injuries.

So my wish for 2026 is a big improvement in mobility of left arm and right knee and much less pain! Of course I also wish for the health and happiness of all our beloved family and, might as well go for it -world peace!

This year has been awful from start to finish so I will be glad to see it go.I'm looking forward to spring, to seeing the sea again and I'm going to use the last bit of this year to take stock and regain my inner strength for whatever is to come next !

I just wish we had strong leaders that would stop the antisemitic hatred
Getting rid of child poverty & homelessness! So unnecessary and a disgrace in the 5th richest country in the world!
A family wedding in Barbados in May!

I’ve just been diagnosed with coeliac disease, so I’m not looking forward to food next year.
Every gluten free thing I’ve tried so far tastes like it’s made of sawdust! Awful !
No more “afternoon tea” for me!