What three things would you like to do in your lifetime?

[Ghost Donkey]

Family wise I'd like to do a good job bringing my kids up and organise things with work so we have more family time together (in progress). I'd also like to move back up north to West Yorkshire sooner rather than later. That's two then.

For the third I'd like to get my endurance, fitness and climbing ability up for long evets like the Sue Ryder 88 mile sportive, one of the rides based on Paris Rubaix (bad spelling :-)) and the long course version of the Alpe D'Huez triathlon.

 

[tyred]

i) Find a way to earn a living doing something I enjoy.

ii) Own a Bugatti Type 35, the most beautiful car ever made (imo).

iii) Visit the North Pole.

 

[Midnight]

1) Travel deep into space

2) Watch a total eclipse

3) Witness an active volcano - one with explosive lava eruptions

 

[Flying_Monkey]

1. Have the balls to up and go and live here.

I've cycled down that road a couple of times - the winds can be something terrible.

 

[jimboalee]

i) Find a way to earn a living doing something I enjoy.

ii) Own a Bugatti Type 35, the most beautiful car ever made (imo).

iii) Visit the North Pole.

"Oh dear what a shame, your first answer was not the one we were hoping for."

"Anyway Tyred, from Ireland, let's take a look at what you would have won....."

 

[Shaun]

Intersting this - lots of "kids growing up" ones - which just goes to show that it's the same for most all of us parents really, your kids come along and the focus of what your previously wanted for yourself goes out of the window and your kid's future takes over.

On a similar note to others then, my first one is:

"Enjoy watching my daughter grow up, become a woman in her own right, and find a loving partner to make her happy in life (and a sub-thing of hoping for grandchild/ren if she does)"


For number two I've got to go back to when I was at school and came home for lunch to watch the first shuttle launch. It was delayed and I refused to go back to school until I'd seen it lift off. Mother was furious, and the school weren't particularly sympathetic to my obsession with space and NASA, but then I don't suppose many of them had the mad desire to be an astronaut like I did. So, number two:

"Blast into outer space."


The third one is a bit more ethereal. Whilst I could go for world peace, I'm going to go for something a little simpler and closed to home. Number three is:

"Good health and a long life into old age for me and the missus."

Ta da.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[yello]

I've cycled down that road a couple of times - the winds can be something terrible.

I have too but just the once. The beaches are stunning, imo.

 

[JamesAC]

1) Climb Scafell
2) Sing Spem In Alium
3) Think of three things to do ...

 

[ChrisKH]

Actually my third is a work in progress so I'll go for something a little less physical and say "Find God or discount him/her entirely."

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'd have to have a good think about 2 and 3 but 1 would be an enjoyable job or better still it would be not having to have to work* for a living.



*When I say work I mean that in the loosest sense, natch.

 

[Speicher]

Visit South America and New Zealand

Live in Foghat's renovated cottage in the Highlands for six months one summer.

Ride in a hot air Balloon.


* consults diary as to when to meet Comedy Pilot *

 

[cookiemonster]

Visit Bhutan
Visit Greenland
Live in Asia

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Visit South America ...

I don't know if I've ever mentioned that I ...

 

[Speicher]

I don't know if I've ever mentioned that I ...

have been there three times?


No, I do not think you have mentionned that TBM.

Twice I was supposed to go there. In 2001 to Argentina, but it was cancelled due to civil unrest, and the Patagonia Express not having a boiler certificate.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I have too but just the once. The beaches are stunning, imo.

Just don't get the crazy idea that you should swim... brass monkeys doesn't begin to describe it!