@Colleen253
Your on Colleen....Petunia it is!
Got any suggestions for the Mantis? :-))
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You are right Colleen, humour and tough times do have to go together. I think Ade having MS has put real quality into our lives, we have done things together we never would have. My bucket list is full...and I am just about to fulfill another one....I going 'Ultra lite' flying, just a bit more paper work and rules to attend to...... and I am off!
But with the MS, I and probably Ade would have been like everyone else and put those things that we should do off till a 'rainy day'!
I would have been one of those people who tip toe through life hoping to make it safely to death!
We have dined in Rome......
Walked on the Great Wall of China.....
Taken in the view on a deck in Santorini.....
Stood on the spot where Meg Ryan found a Teddy Bear, and lost her heart in 'Sleepless in Seattle'.....
Walked up all those spiral steps in the Sagradia Familia
And the even mightier Sanctuary of Truth in Pataya in Thailand.......
Eaten street food in Busan in Korea.....
Had a beer on the beachfront at Waikiki on a father daughter trip......
And Colleen from your part of the world, played the fiddle in Nova Scotia........
We have cruised on the Rhine, we have sat on the ancient ruins on Carlton Hill and watched the massive banks of floodlights take over the city during the Edinburgh Festival, I have even slept a night on the Antarctic continent...not that would call it a night, the sun barely dipped below the horizon!
I have had my Porsche 911 Targa.
I have witnessed something truly majestic! The curvature of the earth from 45,000 ft through the cockpit windows of a 747 returning from Tahiti in 1990.
The Multiple Sclerosis, although a tough road for Ade has meant we did these things instead of waiting till it was too late. We spent our retirement, but I don't regret a minute of it!
From that Morgan Freeman/Jack Nicholson film, 'The Bucket List' there is only 2 of those 14 bucket list items I haven't done.
I haven't seen the Taj Mahal, and I haven't been buried on top of a mountain!
Cheers......Rob