General Chat

If you had your life over again what would you do that you have not done this time round .. Me! Oh I wish I had learned drive, what with one thing and another (plus 6 kids who drove by age 17) never got round to it but now as old age catches up how I wish ......... ah me! :-(

I'd tell a certain someone to get a grip :-| - assuming it would be the same cast.

I think that's a great question Nolls I'm going to have a good think and get back to you on that one......... :-)

One thing I would do now as couldn't do it 1st time around is

Nursing and travelling the world and learning to drive. :-D :-D :-D

I would have flown on Concorde! Too late now :-(

Oh! And learned to swim properly, instead of 6 strokes, flounder, sink! :-|

Learn to drive and swim ( not at the same time lol)

I have always thought how wonderful to be able to play the piano

GeordieinNorfolk - me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always wanted to do that ever since I heard a sonic boom as it flew overhead.

Started my Family Tree when rellies were still around.

Carol :-(

I am soo glad to hear I am not the only one unable to drive! This is really interesting looking at your answers think I could add them all to my wishes (not the swimming can keep myself afloat lol) especially Carol me too all that knowledge gone....

Yes, Carol - I would have loved to have shared my findings with my Mam.

Errol - I never even got to hear the sonic boom!

Same as Geordie - flown on Concorde. By the time I had enough dosh to consider it, it was grounded :-(

Also wish I had not considered myself 'too old' to change career at 37, and had done something about it!

If we had the benefit of hindsight up front, that would cure many heartaches.

I wouldn't change anything. One slight deviation and my children wouldn't exist as they are..

I agree with Carol. I was born in 1937 and my Great Grandmother (born in 1865) lived until I was 10 years old. I did learn a lot from her but I asked nowhere near enough questions while she was alive. What a story she could have told me if I had only known. Just think about it, the older people alive when she was a girl would remember George III, George IV and William IV being on the throne as well as Queen Victoria. They would also have been talking about the French Revolution, the Battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo and also the end of slavery. Amazing !

And I agree wholeheartedly with KenSE. I have made many mistakes but to go back and rectify them would mean I would not have my three children and seven grandchildren as they are today and that is unthinkable.

well, with the same cast I would have had to courage to stand up to my mother in law and father in law and tell them how really horrible they were and how lucky they were to have such a lovely son and that he found someone who loved him to pieces

I would have liked to have had more than one child but nature was against me on that one and I kept losing them, so was happy with the one lovely son I have

I too would have liked to learn to play the piano or some other instrument, a saxophone maybe

I wish I had appreciated my curly hair when I was younger - I kept on straightening it and now I really appreciate it - thanks Dad!!!

Absoloutely nothing, if I hadnt had the sad bad times in my life it wouldnt of made me the stonger person I am now.....

However just one thing, I would of kept my gob shut in my sewing class from day 1 instead of winding our teacher up ( she was a looney and I felt duty bound for some reason) to constantly send her in to a flying purple rage after being in her class for 15 secs and then being removed for the rest of the lesson 5 years that went on for, I would love to be able to sew now :-(

I should have said No....instead of yes and making other people happy !!

Times change and so do our lives......live for today not yesterday.......

What's done is done.

I've never learnt to drive, but, apparently, that's my next goal!!

.....so, for the next 5 years, the roads will be even more unsafe as I waste my small inheritance.......

(providing mum's house sale goes ahead :-0)

I'd also like to do some voluntary work abroad