After reading Julia's post regarding her bucket list and Glastonbury, it got me thinking as to what would be on mine. Mine begins with cruise to see Northern Lights...………..What is on your list? Lyn x
BUCKET LIST!! : After reading Julia's post... - My Ovacome
BUCKET LIST!!
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Watched Joanna Lumley in Iran last week and that has gone to the top of my bucket list. Mentioned it to my friends who virtually started to book it but I am only one chemo in from my second set of six so I had to say slow down a bit - I have already had to cancel the last two holidays. Fingers crossed I get there in April May next year - it is great to have something to look forward to. xxx
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Hi Jenny I watched that it was fabulous simply fabulous darling! We shall be expecting photo's uploaded in lieu of a postcard...….have a fantastic time! Lyn xx
Funnily Lyn I had had a bucket list for the last 10 years and whilst I have managed to achieve the trips/experiences I wanted to there was always the one I kept putting off and have only just round to booking it..... A Christmas Market in Krakow! All booked for beginning of December. I'm gonna add something else to the list and then keep putting it off in the belief that this is keeping me going lol
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Had to google Krakow, it looks beautiful, the ICU nurse I had was from Poland. Not far off have a fantastic time send us a post card. Lyn xx
I'd love to go there. My father was Polish and born near there. I only found my birth family a few years ago so never met my father because he'd passed away. I've never been but I will one day. xx
Hi Zena I have to say I am looking forward to finally going. One place I'd really like to go is Belarus, my late father (long story) was born in Belarus, nationalised Lithuanian, adopted German! I probably could write a book on how he came to live in England lol. We tried tracing his family when he was alive but having had any information he had stolen we had little to go on apart from his birth name. Have to say he was a wonderful Dad.... happy memories x
My bucket list is very long and I add to it all the time but for many years top of the list is that I want dolphins to jump over my head - three at a time. We were in ToyRUs once and hubby found a blown up dolphin on display and came over and started to whoosh it over my head. "You can cross that off now", he said. Hmmmm. This lady was not amused. Northern Lights are there too. xxx
Ha ha - as toy r us have gone kaput you will have to book the real experience and maybe even ride a Dolphin, how fab would that be. Sadly I cant swim so will have to stick with the blown up version. Lyn xx
Hi lyn,i have just been on a 7 day cruise on the britannia to the med it was our first one but it won' be the last,going again in may around norway,and thats what my bucket list is,to do as many cruise as i can.good luck.x
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Good for you! enjoy xx
That sounds wonderful, my husband gets sea sick big time so have never been on a cruise, but I think I have talked him round as my cousin goes on 2 or 3 a year and she says you cant even feel them moving these days. Lyn xx
I've always wanted to sleep outside under the stars in the middle of nowhere, the sky would be jet black and full of twinkling stars no sounds except the wind in the trees.
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Not done that since I was in my twenties, though some of our camping has got close to it. I'm definitely with you and the others talking about being in the open air and walking.
I've just discovered my old man has the Northern Lights on his list, so I guess that's probably bumped it up mine a bit.
If we make it, it will be hard not to assume everyone else on the trip has OC!
Nice one, Lyn. I"ve crossed off some of the items already since my diagnosis i.e. owning a (albeit small) sports car again and visiting Japan. Next on the list would be to participate in an ice driving experience in Finland (with Porsche), but that's a complete non-starter due to budget constraints.. and let's face it.. also due to a lack of stamina and strength. More achievable would be to join you on the quest for seeing the northern lights 
. We were THAT close to booking a Hurtig Reisen cruise along the Norwegian coast last year in September, in combination with a family visit in Denmark.. and then bailed out last minute due to overall cost concerns, hrmpf.
But what we can (hopefully) make a reality soon is to go see my brother who lives 800 km away and whom I haven't seen since my surgery in February. That would be pretty nice.
Don't wait for it, ladies.. just do it. 
Xx. Maus
My husband & Idid manage to go on one of their cruises in Feb 2014, though it was expensive, & I had some difficulty getting insurance, as I had been having chemo, & still had cancer, & was cruising, not staying on land. But we had the oncologist's backing ("go while you've got the chance & you're not having any treatment, see you after you get back") It was worth it, though we went in winter hoping to see the Northern Lights, & there was very little activity. Di
Oh that sounds nice indeed. Maybe we'll give it another go...
The Hurtigruten is a wonderful experience - hope you can do it some day!
Like minded again. I loved Japan and think I need to go again.
I went to the original ice hotel (venue rather than building as it melts every year lol). Did not see any Northern Lights but had a great time ice driving in a Saab.
Then a couple of years later a weekend ice driving Aston’s. Best ever weekend. Lots of car clubs including Porsche there on different ice lakes.
Thinking about the ice hotel again to see if I can catch the lights this time.
Bucket list at the moment includes a trip to Australia where I lived for a couple of years as a child. Must get planning.
Best wishes
Fay
Omg Fay... sounds like a dream indeed
Hi , I am going to be greedy and have a few more on my bucket list , Number 2 on my list is a trip on the Orient Express to Venice , mentioned it last year before my operation and hubby was all over it but by the time I had recovered after the op he had seen the prices so I am guessing that one might have to be in another life .Another one would be taking my Grandson to Disneyland Paris to see his little face , probably more doable xxJulia xx
I'm with Shortie - as many cruises as possible. I've been planning for ages but sadly no money to manage a day out let alone a cruise. Still, you never know - I want to work my way up to a world cruise and then have a different cocktail every day
Lynn
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Hey yeah, as much as you can fit in I say, just DO IT!! I've got new granddaughter due January and I want to do lots of things with her, plus another son may be getting married...for ne it's now wanting to do as many family activities as possible, hopefully go on next holiday with granddaughter and her parents, ( my son and daughter in law)!👶👶🐻🎀
Fiji! Sun, sea, sand, book, hammock.
Wouldn't mind another cruise. I found this an easy way to travel with always the security of a comfy cabin when I got tired. Ventura is so lovely sometimes we just stayed on board. The holiday made a big dent in my savings though.
My husband & I did manage a Norway cruise in 2014. I now need to get my bucket list sorted. I know a less ambitious one, that doesn't need expensive travel insurance, is that I want to visit more of the Scottish western isles. I also want to visit various cousins of mine who live around the country, who I haven't seen for a long time. We visited a cousin near Leeds on our way home from our holiday last month. I hadn't seen her for at least 46 years! That's number 1 crossed off. Di
The Scottish Western Isles are among our favourite places and we've done most of them, including remote St Kilda. We've always gone to the islands with the CalMac Ferries, but one of my bucket list things is to take the plane to the island of Barra as it lands on the beach!
I don't necessarily have a big list, because sometimes I find if I overplan something it doesn't live up to expectations - surprise or spontaneous things often give me more pleasure. I don't need to travel far - I'd like to do another canal boat holiday, as I find them very relaxing, and to spend time by the sea, the Western Isles of Scotland being a favourite destination. Wherever I go, I like spending time with friends - I have lots of connections that go back many years. Oh, and I'd love to go skiing again - I managed it in January 2017. You can't beat the Alps in winter with a blue sky.
I have just completed an MA in Creative Writing with the OU and my next goal is to get to the graduation next March at the Barbican. Fingers crossed.
Of course you will get to the graduation next March! Believe and it WILL happen. Lyn x
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I do hope so. I tend to worry about not being well enough to present myself in public...
A series of different mountain and hill walking is pretty much most of my bucket list. Anywhere that still has some wildness about it, the boggier the better! I can smell the fells now, see the mountain hares and feel the wind, the rain and the sun. Bliss...
I love this too - it's the absolute opposite of the hard surfaces and stuffy air of hospitals ...
Yes. I am dreading my trip to the Christie today... I will try and pretend I am out on those wet and windy moors rather than in that chemo chair.
All the best for getting through it - creative visualisation does help!
I don’t have a bucket list as I figure if I’d really wanted to do it, the likelihood is I’d have done it already - also doing things I’d looked forward to but post cancer would just feel like a constant reminder - instead I have a f*ckit list of all the things I’m not going to do and I do them instead - like not cooking a lot anymore or dusting unless I have to! I tend to say what I think now and don’t go out of my way to appease my mum anymore.
The only bucket list thing would be to see a whale - in a way I’m not planning on doing it anytime soon as that gives me the illusion that I still have endless time x
Excellent. I have one of those f*cket lists too - no committees, no time spent trying to please people that don't matter in the end. I am even aiming not to get caught up in too much Christmas hype this year - idea is to appreciate December for what it is, without the Christmas thing dominating .....
You mean you'll resist buying special loo roll decorated with Christmas designs?
Now that would be the perfect gift for us OC girls!!
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Totally agree - We are going out for xmas day lunch and then we are escaping to the IOW for a new years few days away, just pleasing ourselves this year. Feels very decadent, but if you can't please yourself living under a cancer diagnosis! when can you. Love the F*cket list, mine started. Take care Lyn x
I’ve had to bin my original list but have a couple to tick off
Sarah Millican 15/11
Granddaughter 4th bday 16/11
Christmas 2018
My eldest has his bday 23/10
My youngest 30/10
All the things I used to take for granted are now on my wish list. How cancer turns life into a lottery
LA
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I couldn't agree more ,I keep thinking next year well do this or that then I think oh but what if ?
Hope you get to see all those dates and are well enough to enjoy them to the full.
I can’t believe how many of you have seeing the northern lights on your bucket list! I’m so used to them, having grown up in one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world for seeing the lights. Next time I look up at the sky and see them I’ll think of all of you.
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