Friday 9 November 2012

The List of 50

So...now I am 50, the Task Begins.

This is the list of the 50 things I must tick off by 7th November 2013:


12 months to do all 50, from 8/11/2012 to 7/11/2012
Must be things I have never done, or at least not done for 20 years.

  1. Write a blog for the whole year
  2. Try to get on a tv quiz show
  3. Meet up with old school or college friends Wendy, Vicky, Julie
  4. Get my ears pierced
  5. Learn to solve a Rubik's Cube
  6. Have a ‘flight’ on The London Eye
  7. Knit a Dennis The Menace jumper for Carl
  8. Have a tattoo
  9. Learn to make éclairs
  10. Visit Iceland
  11. See the Northern Lights
  12. Have a Manicure
  13. Have a Pedicure
  14. Colonic irrigation
  15. Write a short story
  16. Visit Bath
  17. Watch a horror movie
  18. Dye my hair a new colour
  19. Refurbish or re-upholster a chair
  20. Visit Hay on Wye book festival
  21. Watch the classic film Citizen Kane
  22. Have a box at a theatre
  23. Read Anna Karenina
  24. Visit London Dungeon
  25. Write a song
  26. Grow a pumpkin
  27. Make my own body lotion with home-grown ingredients
  28. Tae Kwondo – take a lesson
  29. Plant crocuses in shape of my name
  30. Invent a cocktail
  31. Visit Florence
  32. Go Glamping - i.e. glamorous camping
  33. Organise a charity event for Alzheimer’s
  34. Teach my children how to use the washing machine and iron
  35. Get lost – take a bus, any bus
  36. Compliment everyone you meet for a day
  37. Learn tapestry or cross-stitch
  38. Make jam from grown or foraged fruit
  39. Post a video on youtube
  40. Get a letter published in local paper
  41. Draw a portrait of my sons
  42. Eat only raw food for a week
  43. Learn a dance
  44. Find the origin of the family word – Diddlum
  45. Visit the Uffizi Gallery in Florence
  46. Get a special photo taken of me and my family
  47. Create an artwork from ‘found’ items
  48. Make a quilt
  49. See a Shakespeare play that I have not seen before
  50. Walk some of Hadrian’s Wall

1 comment:

  1. Update! I have had to change one item on The List.
    No. 32 was Rigby and Pellor, get measured for a bra properly. But looking at their website, it seems that they do not do my size, plus have you seen the prices??? So I have changed it to 'Go Glamping'.

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