Bucket List

1) Win an award/trophy/prize
2) Catch a fish
3) Leave mark in graffiti
4) Meet an A-lister
5) See an erupting volcano
6) See the Northern Lights
7) Go to Italy
8) Go to Spain
9) Go to China
10) Go the USA
11) Bet on a horse/dog race
12) Milk a cow
13) Attend an important sporting event (World Cup, FA Cup, Olympics etc)
14) Get away with the perfect practical joke
15) Drive a car as fast as is legal
16) Go to Comic Con
17) Learn to Ski
18) Visit the world's tallest building
19) Be on TV
20) Fall in love
21) Get Married
22) Have a child
23) Climb a mountain
24) Sing to an audience
25) Own a pet
26) Contact customer service just to tell them how good they are
27) Be a vegetarian for a month
28) Fly in a helicopter
29) Go on a cruise
30) Go on a romantic holiday
31) Visit the Mona Lisa (The Lourve, Paris)
32) Dress up in fancy dress
33) See the Big 6 on Safari (or equivalent in another country)
34) Watch every Best Picture Oscar Winner
35) Make a prank call
36) Participate and raise money by doing an endurance event
37) Send a message in a bottle
38) Give Blood
39) Own my own home
40) Learn to make soufflés
41) Complete a degree
42) Plant a tree
43) Write a book
44) Solve a Rubik's cube
45) Ride a segway
46) Learn an instrument
47) Experience zero gravity
48) Ride in a hot wait balloon
49) Visit all 7 continents
50) Go whale watching

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Adventure of the Great Reset

Image
In which I reflect and regroup... I am not going to lie, 2024 has been tough so far. You begin a year with such high hopes and sometimes the year decides to take those high hopes and crush them in the most brutal way.  I'm currently enjoying the tranquility of the summer holidays and a rest that has perhaps never felt quite so well-earned. Perhaps the best piece of advice I was given during the many training sessions I have had over the last few years is to make the most of the resets in your life. That might be small resets, as small as a few seconds in the middle of the day or they might be bigger resets like six weeks off work.  Part of this reset has been getting outside. The year so far has not been helped by the endless miserable weather. We always like to joke in the UK that it rains a lot but this year has taken that to the next level. We often think of climate change as meaning we will get hotter weather but it just means that the weather will change and will get more...
Read more

Best Picture 2024

Image
The 2024 Oscars ceremony is mere hours away and I've finally finished writing my annual post about this year's Best Picture nominees. This is my sixth year doing this and once again I've seen all the nominees. Let's take a look! American Fiction Thelonius 'Monk' Ellison, played by Jeffrey Wright who is perhaps best known as Felix Leiter in the Daniel Craig Bond films, is an intelligent African-American professor and writer whose high-brow books sell poorly. Frustrated, he writes a satire of "black" books which is unexpectedly taken by the publishing world to be a serious piece of literature. It's a hilarious film with Wright having lots of fun taking on Monk's alter-ego. At the same time though it's also a clever critique of the sort of media that is consumed by white people to make them feel better about racial issues and the film points out that black people can have normal lives beyond ghettos and gangs- the film itself also tells an ord...
Read more

1000 Miles

Image
Famous Scottish duo The Proclaimers once sang the words "I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more just to be the man who walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door". These lyrics are now part of my plan for 2019. Well, the falling down bit isn't part of the plan but with dyspraxia the likelihood of falling down at someone's door during the next twelve months is not out of the question. I have never tended to set traditional resolutions but I do love a challenge. # walk1000miles is a big challenge run by Country Walking  magazine. The rules are fairly flexible but the idea is simply to walk 1000 miles in a calendar year. 1000 miles is about the distance between the UK and Poland. Now I actually do a fair amount of walking and have hit my 10,000 daily step target every day for nearly three years now. Walking a total of 1000 miles would probably not be a huge challenge if I counted every bit of walking I did, including the many miles of chasing chi...
Read more