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3rd October 2011

My Bucket List

I’ve never really thought about a bucket list before but it sounds like a great idea so I’m going to link up with the lovely Ellen 🙂

Here’s my bucket list:

  • Drive around Europe with Ant and the kids
  • Take a road trip across America with Ant and the kids
  • Publish a novel
  • Have said novel made into a movie!
  • Own a DSLR camera and learn how to take fabulous photos
  • Watch my children go off to university and cry as they graduate!
  • Buy our dream house in a wood with a little stream running through the garden
  • Get to a healthy weight and stay there so I can go out without feeling embarrassed and being stared at.
  • See our new garden in full bloom. I really can’t wait!
  • Visit local historical buildings – We’ve lived here for a few years and never properly visited the magnificent cathedral or castle. Hadn’t really wanted to until I read Pillars of the earth and now I’d like to see them.
  • Stay in a cottage in a remote part of Ireland for a week with my wonderful hubby.
  • Learn to crochet – I’ve never been able to do it. I loved knitting when I was younger but despite watching mum for hours and trying countless times, I could never crochet and I don’t know why! I’m sure it can’t be as hard as I think it is so I need to try again.
  • Go across the Humber bridge without having a panic attack and crying – I DID IT!!! April 2022 🙂
  • Have a wonderful full-body massage
  • Throw a new years eve party – We used to go to one of my Aunt’s houses for new years eve when I was younger and I miss being with my family on New Year. It’s too far to travel to be with them on new years eve now and Ant and I have spent it together, just us, for the past few years. The first one we spent together was very special, but I miss having friends and family around and would rather party than fall asleep before we get to hear Big Ben!
  • Spend Christmas in a log cabin somewhere where it’s guaranteed to snow on Christmas day 🙂
  • Visit Vermont again – It’s beautiful. I think I could live there very happily when the kids are grown up and living their own lives.
  • Go on a cheesy, commercialised ghost hunt in a spooky hotel for a weekend.
  • Learn sign language
  • Family holiday to Disney World
  • Have the courage to attend a blog camp/blog awards ceremony and meet some of the lovely ladies who write such wonderful blogs.
  • See the nutcracker ballet again – I saw this when I was about 17 and went on a Christmas shopping trip and ballet show organised through college. I really enjoyed it then and would love to experience it again.

Wow, I started out thinking that it was going to be a short list….how wrong was I?!
I could probably think of more if I wasn’t so tired but I’m off to bed.

Britmums prompt – Facebook or Twitter

I’m new to Twitter and have to admit it took me quite a while to ‘get’ it!
My first tweet, when I joined about a year ago was something about relaxing with a coffee.
I didn’t go back because I didn’t have anything more interesting to say!

I only started taking it seriously when I started to take my blog seriously.
I started this blog back in 2009 and frankly, I was surprised I could even remember the log-in when I thought about it again earlier this year.
I was writing it mainly for the kids to have something to look back on when they were older and never expected anyone to read it, except maybe family occasionally so I set up automatic sharing on Facebook of each new post.

Ant mentioned that he really enjoyed reading my blog and looked forward to each new post which gave me the confidence to write more and to start sharing it on Twitter as well.
I’d started looking at other blogs and following the authors of those blogs on Twitter.
It seemed to open a whole new world that Facebook didn’t really offer and I found myself checking Twitter before even thinking about Facebook.

When Facebook changed the news feed and I couldn’t choose to just see my friend’s status updates anymore, I started to lose interest. I took it off as one of my home tabs and now I only log in a couple of times a day to check if any of my family needs me for anything (they stopped emailing because they knew I’d be more likely to answer faster if they contacted me on Facebook) then I close it and head back to Twitter.

I’m still a bit shy on Twitter but I prefer it to Facebook when it comes to posting links to my blog. I feel more comfortable promoting my blog on Twitter because everyone does it and it’s also easier to find new writers and blogs to follow.

I never thought I’d say I was a tweeter but I’m loving it and it’s my first choice for blog promotion 🙂

Miscellaneous

Britmums Prompt – Pet Peeves

My biggest pet peeve is probably people dropping litter. There’s just no need for it.
I especially loathe seeing mums telling their kids to drop litter or taking it from them and then dropping it.
Why? Why can’t people just stick it in their pocket/bag/pushchair until they either get to a bin or get to their house?

Even if I have nowhere to put the rubbish (I don’t use a handbag very often) I’ll carry it until I can dispose of it properly.
If my children drop litter, I make them pick it up.
It’s important to keep our communities clean and it saddens me that too many people don’t agree.
Dropping litter shows a lack of respect for the community.

I like councils taking action against the selfish people who litter our streets but I’m not sure if I’d like the following signs dotted around my town, even if it did make me smile!

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