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What would be on your bucket list?

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Bonden · 15/08/2025 10:41

I’m v lucky to have decent levels of health and wealth at 60. I’m single with adult DC.
And I’d like to still have things to plan for and to achieve - beyond house and garden.

What would you have in your bucket list?

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coffeeeeeeeee · 15/08/2025 11:16

I`ve done most of my bucket list.
Have a baby if want one before 30.✔
Have a 3some.✔
Travel to japan.✔
Travel to india buy a large bear and mail it to myself.✔
Out live abusive ex.✔
Get hammered at the moon party in thailand with gay bestie.✔

Still to do.
Skydiving booked.
Swim with dolphins.
Give up smoking.
Try shark fin soup.
And loads more.

frozendaisy · 15/08/2025 11:27

live on the French riveria for a year
travel to all 50 states of America

Bonden · 15/08/2025 11:51

ooh french riviera sounds ace!
So far I’ve got
Visit the Galapagos and swim with the lizards
swim with wild dolphins (yay for dolphins!)
be an extra in a period drama
Have one of my pots in an exhibition (I make pots)
meet a tame crow
trek by horse and cart across part of the USA pioneer trail

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EggandStress · 15/08/2025 12:06

Go on a container ship
Go to Norway
Go to Morocco
Fire a gun

TheeNotoriousPIG · 15/08/2025 12:16
  1. Visit most of the smaller islands off the UK mainland, and perhaps try out living on one of them
  2. Be largely self-sufficient at home (solar panels, vegetable patch, make my own clothes, etc.)
  3. Finish my house... it feels like the world's longest on-going project at present!
  4. Learn to drive a horse and carriage properly
  5. Learn to play all of my favourite musical instruments to a degree of proficiency. I need to acquire a cello next...
  6. Buy a more grown-up car than my sporty student-esque one
  7. Be bilingual. Welsh is a bit tricky, but I will persist!
  8. Have children, if I can, though it's a bit trickier as a single woman who has no desire to sleep with anyone!

Mine are considerably tamer than some of the above, but perhaps I might branch out as I get older and have more time (if ever I retire...)

Bonden · 15/08/2025 12:22

Wow I love the idea of learning to drive a horse and carriage - that’s a corker of an idea.

I’ve also added “do a weeks open water swim holiday” to my list

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TheeNotoriousPIG · 17/08/2025 09:51

@Bonden I'd highly recommend carriage driving lessons. They are great fun and it's nice to do something that is a bit different! I'd like to try side-saddle, too, but the nearest place to do that is three hours away...

Open water swim holidays sound a bit chilly, if you're staying in the UK! 😁

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