Things you wish you had done when younger?

I would have liked to have swum with sharks and also done a parashute jump.

My children were going to pay for me to swim with sharks at an aquarium, not too far from here, for my 60th birthday ten years ago, but I had to have a medical certificate first. I have a problem with my left ear due to untreated ear infections as a kid, I was advised it was very unwise to do so.

I never had the opportunity to do a parashute jump in the past, I think it unwise to sign up for one now as my arthritis is getting worse.

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I always wanted to swim but never did.

Also I would have loved to be able to ride a horse, my favourite big animal ..... all I got as far as was riding a donkey and camels several times.

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I wish I had bought a farm ( only a little one) when I had the chance .

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I wish I'd not let my mother stop me from travelling. I was in my last year st school and I wanted to travel. I decided to write to the Cunard Shipping Company to see if I could get a job on one of their cruise ships. I was asked to come to Southampton for an interview, it was at that point I had to tell my mother what I'd done and she went Balistic. She wouldn't let me go and she watched me like a hawk as she was well aware I was quite capable of sneaking away. I had the money for the fare as I'd been working after school and at W/Es for over a year.
I wish now I'd just gone and told her later if I'd got a job.

With my bag packed, and outside and my running shoes on.

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I'm a bit rusty on the rules as far as skydiving is concerned. I took a weekend course a while back (static line) at Headcorn Aerodrome.
Being just over forty at the time I was required to provide a letter from my GP , cost me seventy quid I think.
Frustratingly if a student didn't make an initial jump within four weeks of taking/passing the course he or she was obliged to start from scratch.
The weather was not kind!

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Same here, it was a bungalow with 8 acres. I would have had 2 horses, ducks, chickens, A dog & a farm cat or two. OH didn't want the raised mortgage though so we stayed here.

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We are sisters from a different mother

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We certainly could be.
That bungalow was sold & the people who bought it got planning permission & built another bungalow on one of the fields & sold that. We could have made money out of it. Ah! The joys of hind sight.

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I wish had learned to play Bridge. I did have a chance to and turned it down.
Silly me!

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Joined the WRAF . my life would have been totally different, I was a silly girl.