Margo Grimshaw: I will do my best to cross off those items still left on my ‘bucket list’

Actually, they are special to me because my birthday falls during January – not that I am a big believer in making a fuss of birthdays, especially after the big 21!

I still live in hope, though, that other people might be and, as it is also Bill’s birthday this month I thought we (no, sorry, for that read he) might splash out on a biggish family do.

Well, he does have five sons, so let’s face it any get together is going to be big.

Now for the big decision!

Which is where to go? What to do?

For I will do my best to cross off those items still left on my ‘bucket list’.

I know that you will never believe this, but it has only just dawned on me what the phrase bucket list means.

Mind you, if I am really honest, I say that I will do most of these things every January.

But now I feel I must face up to it, for time is getting short – well, a bit shorter.

So, just what is on that list?

Well, I hope to make what I think may be a last visit to the States, to New York, and to recall those good old days when for a couple of years I lived there.

I also want to go and eat at Macy’s department store, where I ‘waited on’ in the cafe and where, by the way, there were very good tips for ‘the English speaking lady’.

And then I want to stand and reminisce outside the apartment block on Riverside Drive which is where I lived for a short while.

My next wish would be to take a trip right across the country over to Hudson Bay to see Hilda, whose husband was best man at my wedding some 60-odd years ago; they emigrated just after that and we haven’t seen each other since.

Before then I must shop for new clothes, I mean one can’t go to the States in any old thing, one has the reputation of Britain to uphold.

At least that’s what I told my men folk when they questioned the expense.

Men just don’t understand what money is for.

It’s simple really.

I keep telling them it’s for us women to spend!