What is a bucket list?

Where have I been? Why do I know nothing of this? I first heard the expression on Friday when I friend described the rather expensive piece of furniture  she had seen in the Conran shop was going in her ‘bucket.’ I bemused wondered ‘if I have bucket let a lone a Smoked Oak Sideboard put in it?’

Then I Saturday I heard someone say her long planned trip to Australia was in the ‘bucket’ and a cruise into Southampton docks from New York not no longer ‘on the cards’ but definitely in the bucket.

It seems even the complicated ways in which these grand desires are financed  are in the bucket ; a dark dream  … I note ‘with a desultory smile’.

Needless to say  I was unable to add to this wonder-list but have considered since and pretty much decided, first I need a bucket … a watering can won’t do.