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My very silly bucket list

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wideopensky · 23/11/2021 12:17

Forget swimming with dolphins and climbing Mount Everest - what are the silly things you've always wanted to do in this life?

Mine:

  1. Smash my face into a huge cake (not done yet)
  2. Put my hair in a ponytail and cut it off (done and not as satisfying as expected)

And you?

OP posts:
golddustwomen · 23/11/2021 21:28

Op the smash your face into a cake is brilliant and I want to do it right now Grin

Celledora · 23/11/2021 21:44

This is the thread I didn’t know I needed Grin Now I want to faceplant a big birthday cake too! I want to climb to the top of a really big tree for the view and be able to float back down. I’d like to be able to skate around the house so will need slides and a bit of anti gravity for the ceiling bits. I want to have an instant translation device fitted do I can understand and s as peak any language.

Celledora · 23/11/2021 21:45

Sorry for the typos!

samwitwicky · 23/11/2021 21:48

Have you seen the episode of Vicar of Dibley, with Dawn and the chocolate fountain?

That.

I want to do that.

doodlejump1980 · 23/11/2021 21:49

I’d love to fly across a stage on those wires. Think that would be pretty cool.

Cowpad · 23/11/2021 21:51

@Member278307

Want to go to Maldives will never happen as I now have cancer
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BlackeyedSusan · 23/11/2021 21:52

@WhatDidISayAlan

I have a bucket list - one of mine is to go in one of those rotary car washes, the ones with the flying mops. I’m far too terrified to go in one on my own.
I went through the bus wash at the local bus garage for heritage open day...
BlackeyedSusan · 23/11/2021 21:53

^I would like a high-vis jacket, some huge headphones and a pair of light-up table tennis bats, please.
Then I could wave my bats at a massive jumbo jet and have it taxi along after me, obeying my every gesture.^

now this sounds a fabulous idea. nicking it.

BlackeyedSusan · 23/11/2021 21:58

northern lights are on the list.
taking a camper van round the coast of scotland

JumpLeadsForTwo · 23/11/2021 22:10

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

I also want to swim in lego.
That just sounds painful!
WhatDidISayAlan · 23/11/2021 22:43

@AudTheDeepMinded

I really want to go to an auction and ideally have a go at being an auctioneer. I'd love to front a band and be lead vocalist.

I love to do some serious hill walking (children too small and I don't know anyone else to go with. I went to the Lakes as a teenager with school and adored the long hikes and camping).

Definitely do the walking thing if you ever get a day on your own. Either hide a guide or go on a guided walk - just google mountain leaders in Snowdonia, the Peaks, the Lakes, or Cairngorms or Trossacks. They aren’t too expensive if you can tag on to a group, and you get the benefit of putting money into the local economy and learning about the area as you walk.

Or, go on a navigation or mountain skills course. Plas y Brenin and Glenmore Lodge are great places to learn, sometimes do women-specific courses, and of different lengths. Plus they are residential and have amazing food. I went from being an absolute beginner at 44 to doing Everest Base Camp and climbing Scottish Munroes in crampons and an ice axe. It’s never too late to try.

@BlackeyedSusan - I don’t think I’ve ever been more jealous of anyone on Mumsnetl

Egghead68 · 23/11/2021 22:46

I’d like an ice-cream birthday cake

Giggorata · 24/11/2021 09:03

I'd like to be in (or start) a really huge food fight. Like in Bugsy Malone

PiggyPlumPie · 24/11/2021 09:11

I've always had a yearning to smash massive shop windows. In particular the ones at Debenhams in Derby, sadly now long gone.

coronafiona · 24/11/2021 21:12

Do that thing where you pull a tablecloth from under a fully laid table? Your posts made me think of it!

Weepingwillows12 · 24/11/2021 21:15

I want to go in an air traffic control tower....no clue why.

Also quite fancy making a sword in a forge

Mogloveseggs · 24/11/2021 21:16

I'd buy a land rover defender and not a new one
Dm wants to drive a tank. Determined to make that happen for her Grin

wideopensky · 24/11/2021 22:10

These have really made me laugh. Going to have to steal so many

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JumpLeadsForTwo · 24/11/2021 22:21

I'd love to go into John Lewis and walk past all the crockery displays with my arm out knocking them all onto the floor (I don't have a problem with JL, I just get the urge every time I'm in!)

Newnameforabit · 24/11/2021 22:29

I'd like to go to a massive adult size soft play centre and bounce, slide and climb all day then Bury myself in the ball pool
I'd like to go to a cowboy ranch in America, cook on an open fire and ride the plains whooping like a mad woman rounding up cattle
I'd like to go to New England in the fall too and stay in an art deco house in miami

ToastieSnowy · 24/11/2021 22:38

I’d like to have a nerf war across the office. There was one before I joined but the boss put his foot down after finding a nerf bullet in his coffee. Feel I missed out Grin

ablutiions · 24/11/2021 22:41

@Giggorata I had exactly this wish and I told DH. As a surprise he organised a huge custard pie fight (real custard and cream) for my birthday a few years back. Bloody awesome.

Ilovealido · 24/11/2021 22:42

Love these.
Another one with cancer here so I have given this some thought.
I’ve always worked in health & social care & sometimes think I’d like to work in the city just for a day, wear a power suit & generally march around feeling very powerful & confident. I’m sure the reality is nothing like I imagine!

Ilovealido · 24/11/2021 22:44

It would probably be more like the Miranda episode where she works in an office!

SantiagoSky · 24/11/2021 22:46

I would like to travel from Scotland to Italy on my e-bike.

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