A life unlived?

[NoMercy]

What is the biggest ambition you never fulfilled and, perhaps now, fear you will never get the chance to do so?

For me, I regret bitterly never having flown on Concorde. To fly at 60,000ft, above the weather where there is no such thing as turbulence, and to see the curvature of the Earth would surely have been nothing short of breathtaking!!

[4winds]

Hello NoMercy
I quite fancy your choice of experience !

I regret my choice of subjects read at University, but, having just watched a DVD of "The Bucket List", I've started a Bucket List of my own and reading Philosophy is definitely on it (not at University level though !).
Tomorrow I start another activity on my list - being taught to crotchet by an elderly friend (she's 82, I'm only 69 ergo she qualifies as elderly!).
I should perhaps enrol for a course in creative writing as I seem to be addicted to the use of parenthesis and quotation mark !

[Jan1957]

Sorry nipped off for me to NM. Salad as have started diet today.

Yes, we did consider but were told we were too old to adopt. I was 40 and hubby 41 was also too overwright.

[NoMercy]

4winds - you're never too old to learn!!!

Ummm - I would NEVER turn down an offer to run a pub! What were you thinking?????? LOL

[Jan1957]

tea I meant!!

[theonlyone]

I flew on Concorde ..it was like sitting in
armchairs in a long sausage ..really awesome ,
and it was freebie !! so even better !!

[ianfran]

joggerjayne - mr right may be out for you so never say never!!! ( children cope with having older parents too, i think!)
besides - you just came in ffrom a run so you must be pretty fit!!

[NoMercy]

What kind of a system takes children away from loving grandparents and gives them to a gay couple (I've nothing against gay people) and then passes judgement on issues like age/weight?

Has this country gone mad?

[Jan1957]

and overweight. God I've gone dyslexic!

[NoMercy]

theonlyone - you lucky devil!!!

JJ - surely it's better for a child to have more mature parents than one that's just made it thru puberty? There has been an explosion in the last decade or so, of kids having kids! I'm sure I would make a better parent now, and even better in a few more years, than I would have made when I was younger.

Either way, I'm sure you'd make a great mum, JJ.

[joggerjayne]

NoMercy ... I think I'd make a lousy mum.

I'm Godmother to one of my friends' kids. I remember birthdays and Christmas, pay the school fees, and try not to set too bad an example when I'm round at their house ... then I run off back to my own little space. I think that's about my limit.

Jan ... as you may have read before, I know nothing about horses, so I just bet on horses with cheeky names (or stokemaveric's tips).

So, obviously, I had a tenner on "Silk Affair" today ...

... which won at 11/1, ahead of the favourite.

Pure fluke, but it won me another �110.

So yes ... not a bad day.

[joggerjayne]

In fact ... quite jolly !

[NoMercy]

JJ you and I sound alike. I love the idea of kids and try to engage with them wherever poss, but I would find it hard to put someone's needs above my own.

Maybe there'll come a day when that changes, but for now, I'm happy coming and going as I please.

[joggerjayne]

One "up side" of not being responsible for children, NoMercy, is that you can get away with behaving like one, he he.

Not too often, of course.

Just sometimes.

=0)

[NoMercy]

That's the thing JJ! At my age, with no responsibilities, I am old enough to do what I want and not what others tell me to do, yet still young enough to make mistakes and be a big kid sometime.

[CAJ1]

I would love to do a skydive and raise money. I am convinced I am going to do it one day, I just need to build up the courage first lol. To be able to stand at the edge of a plane door and jump, and fall at such speed and then slow down to admire the world would be amazing.

[Word-Smith]

Caj - just do it!!

Step 1: go to all neighbours and get them to sign a sponsorship form.

Step 2: Book the day at a nearby airfield.

Step 3: Try to think of ways out of it.

Step 4: Just get on with it!!

Step 5: Ask all neighbours to sign plastered leg and think "Why didn't I keep my big mouth shut?"

:-)

[NoMercy]

Ha Ha Word-smith!!

CAJ1 - That's a highly admirable ambition. What charity would you do it for?

[CAJ1]

Lol at Word-Smith.

NoMercy I would do it for Make A Wish Foundation for children who are terminally ill and get to have their wishes come true.

Maybe I should set up a thread on here to see who would donate lol, then you's could all force me in to doing it!