What’s on your post covid bucket list?

[Asmallgiraffe]

I am planning for what I’d most like to do post covid. What’s on your post covid bucket list and what isn’t that surprises you?

For me:

• Seeing my parents!
• Having a night away with my husband without children involving good food, wine, music and a luxurious hotel room!
• Going for a swim.
• Hosting a dinner party/bbq
• Go on holiday
• Going to a concert

What am I not bothered about that I previously enjoyed:

• clothes shopping!!

What about you?

Previously hideously dull bouncy castle birthday parties at leisure centres with plastic cheese sandwiches in a box. DDs would be in 7th heaven.

Hug lots of people.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but: soft play.

Also. Swimming, dinner out, going to the library, chatting with my team mates in the office, going on holiday, getting a pedicure, a haircut, a massage, a bikini wax, trying on clothes in a changing room, hugging people, going to the theatre, being at a gig, watching the trailers at the cinema, Wimbledon, the fireworks, generally seeing people happy and enjoying themselves instead of this grinding misery.

See in in-laws who have only seen us and their grandchild twice since he was born In April!
Spa visit
Theatre
Meals out!
Lots and lots of time indoors with friends our children playing

DH and I throwing a couple of cases in the car and taking off for France, or Scotland (or anywhere really) for a few days, at a moment's notice.

I want to have some friends round for dinner and to get to that lovely stage of drunk where you all have a bit of a kitchen dance.

I want to eat out in a different restaurant every night for a week, at least.

I want to get on a plane and visit my favourite city and just walk for miles and sit in cafes and people watch and go to museums and sit in bars and just breathe it all in.

I want to sit in a variety of hipster coffee shops with posh toasted sandwiches and coffee in tiny cups so hot that it burns, whilst a bearded man bustles around me looking achingly cool.

I want to go to a book shop and spend at least an hour smelling the pages and deciding what to buy, then go for a coffee and come back for another hour and probably change my mind, but it will definitely involve a history book, a cookery book, a note book, and a new bookmark.

I want to go to the seaside and eat chips on the beach and take photographs of seagulls and drink a pint in the most old fashioned pub I can find and then go back on the beach and find the prettiest pebbles to bring home and find weeks later in my pockets.

I want to go a dress shop and try on many, many dresses and stroke all the fabrics and then decide I hate them all and then change my mind and probably end up buying the first one I tried on.

And I want to go to our local bar and sit there all night playing cards and talking nonsense and drunk buying books from ABE on my phone, before leaving just before the pizza place closes in time to buy a vegetarian hot one to be eaten, drippingly, on the walk/stagger home.

Family pub lunch with massive glass of rosé

Getting shit-faced with colleagues after work

Going for a swim

Seeing my mother and my in laws.

Taking our new puppy to the countryside

Hearing about my children's days at school

Live music
Theatre
Comedy nights
Afternoon cocktails with friends
European city break

I've already got this planned
My 5 siblings + Partners
22 nieces and nephews
7 great-nieces and nephews
DH and dd
All at our house for a massive party. We used to do this regularly before covid.
A holiday for me and dh. Dd will be staying with my niece for a sleepover.
Eating out in a restaurant.

1. Hairdressers for roots mark 3.
2. Take grandchildren to library storytime and toddler groups.
3. Visit son no 1 and family in the Far East.
4. Visit son no2 and family in USA.
5. Go to a knitting shop and feel yarn as opposed to guessing online.
6. Meet with friends in tea shops.
7. Resume conversation and plans with son no 3 re getting on the property ladder somehow.
8. Meet grandchildren from school.
9. Go back to modern jive evenings with husband.

10. Return all jigsaw puzzles to charity shops and never do another one. 11. Go shopping for a really lovely knee length winter coat and try on loads before I buy.

Lots and lots of holidays.
Lots and lots of rock concerts.

I'm looking forward to theatre in 2037...

Go to a knitting shop and feel yarn as opposed to guessing online.

And this!

Haircut
Charter holiday - last year was the first time we could afford it and we didnt get to go.
Shopping - I just want to wander through the shopping center.
Choir.
Jump and zumba.

Kitchen parties, impromptu Friday night drinkies, street parties with three neighbours. Trying clothes on in shops. Even standing in the side of a footie pitch freezing to death watching the kids play.
I also cannot wait to have the house to myself again for a hour or two. With schools shut, sports cancelled and DH on and off furlough, there is always someone here!

Oh yes choir,
12. Go back to community choir

I do wonder how the kids will react to it when we are back to normal. In a way the gradual return that’s predicted will probably be good. I think they’ll find big groups overwhelming. And manners have gone, despite my best efforts, so I’m partly dreading socialising and seeing older family members.

We will go for country walks on a Sunday with a pub lunch.

Go on holiday to a cottage in the U.K. featuring lots of pubs and restaurants

~~beg~~ ask the ILs to have the baby for a day so I can have a proper sleep.

See my friends, introduce my baby to them

Shop!

Most important, to to the hairdresser!

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie I loved your post, I could picture it all and it is very similar to what I'd choose. One day soon hopefully!

A foreign holiday somewhere warm

Hug relatives and friends

Go out for a posh meal with my family

Walk around my colleagues offices saying hello

Swim

Get eyebrows waxed

[quote Heartbeats0708]@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie I loved your post, I could picture it all and it is very similar to what I'd choose. One day soon hopefully![/quote]
Thank you. I 'may' have been thinking about this quite a lot recently. Not been anywhere or done anything since October. :(

• Music festivals - I have not seen enough live music
• Buying an old camper van and seeing a bit of England with the dog for company
• Moving further out of town to have more outside space/tranquil surroundings
• not sex, although I'm single

*Not just england, the UK.

Gigs! I miss them so much
Trip to Stockholm and Copenhagen
Coffee with friends, in a cafe, not wobbly chairs in someone's garden!

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie can I come too!!!!!!!!! Please tell me you write for a living!