Just imagine in a few days ….

This has been the first year in which I have felt that I'm going downhill. So next year I think I must make some decisions about my future.
I'm more concerned about what is going to happen to Ukraine. I hope there can be peace, but I don't trust Trump. He only has his own interests at heart.
Meanwhile, I need to get my hearing sorted out, and generally get back to doing some kind of exercises.
Good luck and good wishes to everyone on GN.

Well hope is over-rated and not always accessible. I would love to think that my hope for world leaders to gel and protect the planet and all living beings would materialise, but I am sceptical that could ever happen. I'm looking forward to challenging myself to attain more mobility both physically and mentally. I would love to see people taking more responsibility for themselves.

Looking for a better year after the death of my DH of 65 years.

Hoping for better health as losing my balance and having to use a rollator now. I appear to have aged 5 years in the last 6 months.

Plannning to put in the effort to downsize to a smaller home and garden in the same area as friends and some family are nearby.

2025 was so awful I daren’t think what 2026 might hold.

Susan56 You and I am sure many others too haven't had a reasonable never mind good 2025.
Do hope 2026 improves for all. By comparison I've had a good year.

For 2026, I hope for an ordinary year.

Not a good year for my family, one problem after another, right up until the end of.
It seems we in a place at the moment where bad luck is with us in every given circumstance.
I really hope for better things in 2026, have to stay positive.
But we are all healthy at the moment, children are all happy, things can always be worse

I am looking forward to a short break with 5 friends in February to Eastbourne and again in November to Isle of Wight. I also have another one in May with my sister. I prefer to be home in June July August as our outdoor pool is open and five minutes walk away. 😊 plus if its very hot I have fans indoors to keep me cool, and I live near woods therefore trees so plenty of shade on a hot sunny day.

So looking forward to 2026 We’ve had two dreadful years, where it seems everything has been thrown at us.
We’ve lost two precious loved ones, DH and wider family illnesses, and operations, car crashes, divorce. You name it !
At least we’re still here to tell the tale, but oh my goodness it’s taken its toll We still have much healing to do. Please be kinder 2026 for everyone 🙏🤞

2025 was a up and down year, at 68 I got diagnosed with a couple of medical conditions, which upset me a bit.
I thought my car was going to be unrepairable, but it was fixed. I worried about that as it gives me so much freedom and allows me to get to my daughters to watch my Grandson, 25 mins in the car. Public transport over 90 minutes no direct route.
I also coasted in 2025 so I know I must do something about it in 2026,I am looking into voluntary work and exercising. My mental health has been affected by inactivity and getting up late. So 2026 is a time for going forward and giving me some purpose. I count my blessings though. I am not lonely, and I have friends.

My husband died over three years ago so I lead a fairly solitary existence and admit that I do sometimes feel lonely. My daughter Beth, son-in-law Michael and their family of six offspring live nearby and I see them fairly frequently. However, they have busy lives and, while my grandchildren are very affectionate, they have active lives that naturally don't very often include their 75-year-old grandmother. Four of them are more or less adults and have working lives and their own circle of friends. The second youngest is a teenager (13), although he is very affectionate when we are together in the same place such as Christmas or, to be fair, my birthday. The ten-year-old and youngest is a sweet and loving boy and still spends lots of time with me after school and during school holidays. Nevertheless the days can feel long, especially as I am less active now. My little tabby cat, who is a constant chatterbox, is my greatest companion, although she does like to go out into the garden for a maraud now and then. I miss my larger family of cousins as I emigrated to be in New Zealand with my daughter and her family, but you can't expect to have everything.

Well, there's still 364 days 'til Christmas and my neighbours have already got their tree and decorations up !

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!

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!

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 !

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!

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!

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 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.

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 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 !

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

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 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