5 things to do before you die

[Nathan Hughes]

What’s the 5 things you want to do before you die?

Me

1. Win the Lotto Jackpot so to look after the family and buy a racehorse
2. Take my lad to disney land
3. Witness Somerset CCC win the County Championship
4. Marry my better half
5. Cancel the milk

2,4,5 I have a bit of control over, 1 and 3 isn’t to much to ask for is it?

Charles Darwin to conquer the World

[EmmyK]

1) qualify a horse for HOYS
2) buy my own house
3) Own a pink 1959 Cadillac Eldorado
4) Do my american roadtrip
5) make a good living out of photography stuff

I’m 19 there’s plenty of time haha

[% MAN]

Being at an age where I am just grateful to actually wake up each morning, I am seriously struggling to think of five things.

Without wishing to sound smug, I have been fortunate enough to do nearly all the things I really wanted to do (and many more)and I realise and very much appreciate I have been luckier than most in being able to do so.

The only three I can think of are:-

1 Visit Timbuktu

(sounds an odd one – but when I was a kid my Grandfather, who I loved dearly, always used to say "when you’re older we will go to China and Timbuktu" Sadly he died when I was a teenager and we never made it. I made it to China for him, so just Timbuktu left)

2 Visit all the UK racecourses in a calendar year.

(something of a trite one but is almost becoming an obsession – I seem to just miss it by one or two)

3 *************************

(a very private one which only one or two friends actually know about and certainly not one I intend making publicly)

[wit]

Paul,

weren’t you once on record in relation to a certain Jane Hill…

wit

[% MAN]

Paul,

weren’t you once on record in relation to a certain Jane Hill…

wit

I was indeed but she is not the answer to No 3 (and Mrs O knows about Jane Hill)

[billion]

Nathan

As Paul says when of a certain age it is hard to think of 5 things you still want to do or even have the energy to do.

Still lets have a punt and see what I can come up with and as they say in no particular order.

1) Find a cure for getting old. (Now that could be a winner)

2) Too late to see Frank Sinatra in concert but if I had a wish this would be high up there on the list.

3) I have tried to get my opinion across to one of the sons that I think he drinks too much, sadly to no avail but this "wish" would also be right up there.

4) To live long enough and see the day when politicians talk sense and not with a forked tongue and realise as a nation we do not rule the world anymore, bring our troops home and keep them here.

5) To be able to talk to my Mum and Dad just one more time and tell them all the things I never did and now wish I had.

Sorry Nathan, not quite things I still want to do but more of a "wish list".

Have you seen the film "The Bucket List"? I think that is what it is called about two old fella’s and one is soon to pass on, great little film worth watching.

Billy's Outback Shack

[% MAN]

5) To be able to talk to my Mum and Dad just one more time and tell them all the things I never did and now wish I had.

That’s a lovely one – I lost my Dad last year but was in the "fortunate" (I can’t think of a better word) position of knowing he didn’t have long left, so by the time he did finally go nothing had been left unsaid which, from a selfish point of view, was lovely. I also believe it made his funeral easier to cope with as I went to it knowing I had said my goodbye long before and I could just concentrate on delivering the eulogy.

I contrast that with my nephews wife, whose father collapsed and died as he was walking to work aged 60, totally unexpected and they all have regrets about things which had gone unsaid.

I must admit it has made me think and although my Mother is still with us and hopefully will be for a long time, I have again made sure nothing has been left unsaid – just in case.

[moehat]

I know [of] someone who is doing that very trip now; she knows someone who is losing their sight, and that person wanted to see all the things in America they’d always planned to see before their sight finally went. So she’s driving them round. Think she could have piled a good few people in the back of the car

. Thankfully, just before my mum died I thanked her for all that she had done for me; it was just slipped into the conversation, but I’m so pleased that I said it. One of the few positive things I’ve achieved in my life! Sadly, my one hope at the moment is that I’ll get a bus pass in a couple of years time, although I’m sure that, like everything else, they’ll either stop them altogether or make me wait another few years…there are a lot of carrots being dangled in front of me that I just can’t seem to get at. Not having to work till I’m @ 70 would be good!

[Miss Woodford]

1. It’s impossible to visit every American racetrack in a year, or even in a decade, so I’ll settle for visiting every "podunk" racetrack. Who cares about Keeneland and Churchill, it’s all about Great Falls, North Dakota Horse Park, Pocatello Downs…

2. Hike the entire Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia.

3. Get a couple hundred acres of land in rural Virginia (it’s not

that

expensive) and have a working farm. Horses, cows, chickens, goats, you name it.

4. Buy/train an A-circuit quality showhunter / showjumper and ride well enough to compete on him.

5. Watch a horse win the Triple Crown.

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