In an ideal world, what does your life look like?

[WildFlowerBees]

I enjoy a daydream so in my ideal world I live in a cottage, cool airy and bright. No immediate neighbours, surrounded by a meadow with wild flowers and large trees.

I have runner ducks and chickens and my own walled secret garden. On a warm spring day I can take my cup of tea and sit in my garden listening to nature. No neighbour noises, no road sounds just the wish wish of the trees, the animals and the birds.

Hell to some absolute bliss for me. Anyone else?

I’m really enjoying reading these, what lovely lives we all have!

I’m not disabled.

Everything else is the same.

I'd live in a spacious cottage near Derwentwater with views over Skiddaw and Catbells. Away from the hustle of Keswick and tourists but walking distance to the centre for a coffee or lunch.

I'd need shit hot Internet, which I imagine isn't great in rural Cumbria.

Happy to keep my job (shift to pt), my car and DH. DH to get a fulfilling job he likes.

A pretty garden but maintained by someone who knows what they are doing.

Good skin, sleek hair, a rocking body and a chic & elegant wardrobe where everything fits and looks good.

Me and my family live in a Scandinavian country where childcare is excellent and low cost. In the winter we have proper snow and everything is hygge but in the summer it’s nice and warm - not too hot. I work two days a week in a nice job that isn’t stressful and DH works 4 days 8-4. On Fridays we both have the day off and we go to lunch just the two of us. We are fairly well off in a non-showy way and have a nice Volvo and can afford to fly friends out often to spend time with us in our cabin in the Swedish archipelago. My DC are all happy and healthy.

I live in an old farmhouse and the house is always full of family/friends and cats and dogs. Lots of grandchildren running around in acres of meadows/woods. I'm happy and love baking, walking, wild water swimming and going to music festivals in my vw campervan.

I have a cottage in the countryside but you can see the sea in the distance over the fields. No immediate neighbours but they are not too far either !. I don't work but I like to write novels in my spare time looking out to the view with coffee and delicious snacks. I like to cook and bake but have a cleaner who goes round after me tidying up. On an afternoon my son comes home from school and is a delight, no tantrums just fun and cuddles and sleeps all night really well. DH works from home too and we go for long lunch time walks together with our dog. Delightful. I also have a personal stylist

I'd live on the sea front, just far enough away from too many people and just close enough to stroll to interesting bars and restaurants. I'd have developed a lovely flower garden and have a potting shed and a Victorian greenhouse on the back of the house. I'd be doing the job I do now, with a wise and caring supervisor and a great manager. I'd have a stable and a horse and a landrover. I'd run and swim on the beach or seafront most mornings and have a home gym and practice yoga and Pilates. DH would be retired and take himself off for enjoyable walks and bike rides, and frequent holidays. I'd enjoy cooking again and the house would be permanently clean and uncluttered without anyone else coming in. I'd quite like some charming grandchildren too, if my dds and their girlfriends/boyfriend want that.

Going back to my country and live it all over, again, with the stamina of a younger woman. I had a very idyllic life back home

For my Dh to be 100% well and not needing to have life saving visits to a clinic 3 x a week, not on a waiting list. Not to have missed out on career chances when he was ill.

Dd not to be paralysed by anxiety and have a job she's entirely capable of doing apart from this.

Ds to be in the job of his choice.

Me to be qualified and practicing.

Our house to be made over.

My dsis to have less money worries. My d parents to not have their health issues.

For me to be naturally thin.

Oh and to own a fab holiday apartment overlooking the beach in Juan Les Pins. 😁

That'll do me.

Oh I love this.

I live on the hight street just around the corner from where I live IRL.

I live in a massive 200 year old house, great gardens, car port with a 1962 vw camper van, a bright orange R8, a grass green Q5.

I have an indoor pool, a wine room, a huge kitchen, fresh flowers which my local florist brings every couple of days, lot's of art everywhere, Degas, Picasso, Grason Perry...😁

I have a great life, a wardrobe and the shoes Carrie Bradshaw would envy....oooh and lots of amazing antique jewels.

I bake cakes everyday, I have recreated some of arts finest paintings and sculptures with cake.

Oh yeah and Nic Hayward just asked me to marry him.

Please no one wake me 😂😂😂

I am living in a little cottage in a certain little coastal town in Wales that is more like a village . I can afford 24 hour care for my mum to live with us who has late stage dementia. I have a house next door which we rent out to holiday makers . I love to furnish it and make it make it welcome for guests. My real life sprocker dog is joined by a miniature schnauzer, a golden retriever and I have a horse. I spend free time making glass art . Oh to dream !

@DeirdreChambersWhatACoincidence I lived on Princelet Street for a year, about 25 years ago ☺️

I live in a tastefully modernised old rectory in a Devon village with a huge garden. A pleasant bike ride or walk to a beach only the locals know about. We are part of village life and know all our neighbours. We have regular social gatherings for food, wine and gossip. Kids, partners and GC live close and we have regular long haul villa holidays together. They all come to us for a big traditional Christmas including church, carol singing and a Boxing Day swim on the beach.

Exactly how it is now only with £250,000 in the bank

@trentino Oooooh what was the house like???

I live in a Georgian townhouse in a town by the sea. My office is in the attic where I can look out over the sea, and all the walls are lined with bookshelves and art. I’m a bestselling crime novelist and I write all my first drafts on a beautiful old typewriter. I only need to write 3 days a week and take all the holidays off to be with my children. Occasionally I might write some really unhinged romantasy smut on the side and publish it under a pseudonym.

I have a 3rd child, born between the 2 I currently have. They all have their own bedrooms with hand painted murals on the wall and we have a huge swing set and a menagerie of animals in the garden. There’s a cleaner and a gardener and my husband is a gentleman of leisure as we are fully supported by my crime/smut books.

We all play board games together and go to family kayaking sessions. I do Pilates and pole dancing and am in amazing shape, but eat whatever I want.

I’m super organised and always available to volunteer at school/beavers/dancing. I’ve got a really tight knit group of mum friends with kids similar ages, so we spend our weekends meeting up at the park or beach and letting the kids run wild. My (real life) best friend lives next door to me and we can pop in and out of each others houses.

Oh and I can whistle!

Seems to me a lot of women want similar things. Peace, quiet, security, health for themselves and their loved ones, time with friends and family, and to have contact with nature. Not mad ostentatious riches or power, "just" wellbeing and security and contentment.

Though the "just" is in inverted commas for a reason.