If you had a second chance?

What a wonderful and varied set of answers! And overall we mostly seem to be content with our lot.

It is interesting how circimstances change things. For me the first time was sitting in a plane as it bounced down a runway in a gale before grinding to a halt with a broken nose wheel; watching to sparks fly from under the belly of the plane made me realise that I needed to get on and make some choices. It wasn't a life flashng before me moment but was a you-only-get-one-go-at-life one! (But I did get to ride in a fire engine, the only vehicle available to take us away after we'd evacuated the plane!!)

Then, in 2001 Mr PP and I had our future swerved by 9/11 - we were about to emmigrate to Canada with his role in an aviation company and I was going to use my ski instructor's qualifications. But his company went from recruiting and relocating to making people redundant very quickly. That was when we hatched our plan to move to France.

It is interesting how many times arcaheology comes up - I might have stuck to it if I'd specialised in somewhere warmer than British prehistory and landscape archaeology