17 January 2011 Bridget’s 60
Visit the Hermitage in St Petersburgh
Finish knitting the Icelandic dresses I promised I’d do for Eleanor and Laura
START knitting the Icelandic dresses I promised I’d do for Eleanor and Laura
Take Paul to Sharrow Bay
Learn to meditate
Be more active
Stop drinking so much whisky
Finish reading Proust Remembrance of Things Past
Listen to the Ring Cycle in one sitting
Take the girls to Marrakech
Cook a full authentic mishwi
Explore Cornwall
See more of my sister
Be a better vegetable gardener
Learn to swim
Master technology, or at least understand it a bit better
Travel in India
Sort out all of my photographs
Go to Ireland to further research the family tree
Clear the loft
Empty the freezer
Go to Sunderland to further research the family tree
Sort out my books
Become actively involved in helping the homeless
Visit the battle graves of the 2 world wars
Watch more live opera
Buy less
Eat at the Fat Duck
Watch all the DVDs I’ve bought and then ignored
Listen to the Messiah once a month ( that’s a cheat as I probably already do)
Use my IPOD
Finish the tapestry I started in 1999 commemorating the millenium
Make more time for friends
Lower my blood pressure
Learn a language properly
Take Paul to Amalfi
Visit Venice
Re read Les Miserables
Study more
Exercise more (actually it isn’t difficult to do more than none)
See as much of Eleanor, Laura and Julia as they will tolerate
Concentrate my thinking more
Laugh every day
Be more appreciative of/considerate to Paul (he’s very long suffering)
Maybe join the Hash
Be more patient
Explore Leptis Magna, in Libya, with Paul
Lose weight
Play golf again
Play golf better than I did in the past ( not difficult to attain)
Stop reading trashy magazines. Actually it’s really Paul that would want me to do that
Be a better Godmother
Use the car less
Use the sports car more
Bake bread instead of buying it
See gorillas in the wild
Visit Vietnam
Do tasks timeously instead of always at the last minute
Remember all of my many passwords without having to keep resetting them
Be as happy as I am at this minute even though I drew the short straw and had to think of 60 unattained ambitions!
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Laura
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“Laugh every day”
What about when it’s not a laughing day?? That would clash with
“Be a better Godmother”
although I fail to see how that’s possible!!!
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davisoba
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To explain; When she was 3 Abbie, my god daughter, would tell you it wasn’t a laughing day if she thought you were laughing at her.
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Joan (Bridget's Little Sister!)
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Love the list, it made me chuckle. You could pop down here and we could listen to the Messiah on your Ipod on the way to explore Cornwall (staying in Rick Stein’s places of course !) and visit the Fat Duck on your way back – That’d be 5 you could tick off !!!
I thought number three might have said ‘Find a pattern for the Icelandic dresses you promised to make for Eleanor and Laura !’
You’ll have to keep us posted on your progress 🙂
xxxx
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davisoba
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AAH, The one thing I did in Iceland was buy the pattern, however it’s in (very) pigeon English; also there is a special way to combine various yarns, which I was shown and have subsequently forgotten!
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Joan (Bridget's Little Sister!)
said
You’ll have to bring the pattern down in August, I’d love to see it I used to do lots of fairisle knitting, is it a bit like that ?
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Jacqui
said
I notice neither of us have anything on our lists about the North of Scotland Dinner 🙂