O/T Does anyone on here have a 'Bucket' list?

Does anyone on here have a bucket list they gradually tick off when they achieve something or, is it just wishful thinking that we all want to achieve something in life and smile once it's completed?

I say this because I've just booked something I've always wanted to do and hopefully it will happen, well, no one's guaranteed tomorrow until it arrives.

Born the Son of a Railway signalman in Masbrough just off Tenter Street, I was always fascinated as a very small child at the passing steam trains as I looked down the embankment, way back in the 60's. As I've grown my admiration of the engineering that went into building a steam loco has never changed and now they really are a beautiful thing of the past.

One locomotive in particular, number 60103, has always been my favourite and now, I have finally booked a seat in a carriage that will be pulled along the tracks by the 'Flying Scotsman'. This has been possible as ?once in a lifetime? passenger journeys have become available.

It's Barnsley away on that day but football is taking a back seat as I finally fulfil a childhood dream, I suppose I can 'tick' this one off.

I'd like to have the time and the money to watch an Ashes test series in Australia , this coming winters series will once again pass me by .

Mention in despatches for The Masters at Augusta , the US Open tennis in New York .

I'd gladly swap all of the above to see my Rugby League team Wakefield Trinity win the Challenge Cup again at Wembley , we haven't won it since 1963 when I was 1 year old .

That one is out of my hands though .

Achieved mine Brin.
I was determined to buy a house for women from domestic abuse can stay there whilst they get on their feet.
My mum got beat from my Dad.
I’ve bought 3 houses and work with domestic abuse organisations to provide a safe space and respite.
My kids help organise it.

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Originally Posted by Back of the net

Achieved mine Brin.
I was determined to buy a house for women from domestic abuse can stay there whilst they get on their feet.
My mum got beat from my Dad.
I’ve bought 3 houses and work with domestic abuse organisations to provide a safe space and respite.
My kids help organise it.

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That's a brilliant initiative and achievement. Well done sir

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Originally Posted by Back of the net

Achieved mine Brin.
I was determined to buy a house for women from domestic abuse can stay there whilst they get on their feet.
My mum got beat from my Dad.
I?’ve bought 3 houses and work with domestic abuse organisations to provide a safe space and respite.
My kids help organise it.

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BOTN, what an amazing achievement. I doff my cap to you Sir you are indeed a true humanitarian and gentleman.

NB. Sorry to read of your Mum's past.

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Originally Posted by Back of the net

Achieved mine Brin.
I was determined to buy a house for women from domestic abuse can stay there whilst they get on their feet.
My mum got beat from my Dad.
I’ve bought 3 houses and work with domestic abuse organisations to provide a safe space and respite.
My kids help organise it.

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That?s certainly some achievement mate, well done & congratulations👏

Mine would be the Cherry Blossom trail in Japan also would love to sail in to New York at night when it?s all lite up.

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Originally Posted by Back of the net

Achieved mine Brin.
I was determined to buy a house for women from domestic abuse can stay there whilst they get on their feet.
My mum got beat from my Dad.
I?’ve bought 3 houses and work with domestic abuse organisations to provide a safe space and respite.
My kids help organise it.

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Absolutely fantastic achievement, that's a life goal very well worth achieving, well done.

I'd like to do something in animal rescue, dogs mainly. I do some volunteer work with dog rescues and some of the abuse and neglect they suffer is so sad and not necessary at all. So to run my own dog/ animal rescue would be my lifelong goal.

In regard to bucket list adventures, my top one is also train related. I always wanted to travel the Trans Siberian Railway, Moscow to Vladivostock. Few stop offs on the way. I started to really look into it a few years ago, priced it up, learned some of the lingo and the Cyrillic alphabet, did a lot of reasearch. Then covid happened. Once covid finally sodded off and the world started to move again, so did the Russian tanks westward into Ukraine. So it's safe to say that one won't be getting ticked off for a while, if at all

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Originally Posted by Lolmorgan

Mine would be the Cherry Blossom trail in Japan also would love to sail in to New York at night when it?s all lite up.

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Lol, sailing down the Hudson on an evening dinner cruise is indeed exceptional seeing New York lit up in all it's glory. It makes the buildings look all the more larger.

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Originally Posted by Back of the net

Achieved mine Brin.
I was determined to buy a house for women from domestic abuse can stay there whilst they get on their feet.
My mum got beat from my Dad.
I’ve bought 3 houses and work with domestic abuse organisations to provide a safe space and respite.
My kids help organise it.

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Congratulations Back of the net! My auntie unis opened the one on Green Lane in Rawmarsh in the late 70s. It is now a small housing estate. She was a wonderful woman.