Life List

On my 21st birth­day, just a couple of months after this blog was born, I set myself a chal­lenge of doing 100 things in 1001 days. Some months later, I for­got all about it and the list then sank without a trace in The Great Blog-Loss of 2008.

Some 4 years later, the list has been rein­carn­ated; gone are the dead­lines, the apathy and the point­less things I no longer have any interest in doing and in their places are new goals and a fresh enthu­si­asm. The list is in no par­tic­u­lar order and is forever growing.

Bold items are in pro­gress, Crossed-out items are completed.

Wel­come to my Life List.

  • Get Mar­ried
  • Try hag­gis in Scotland
  • Drink Guin­ness in Ireland
  • Have a Girly Night with Vikki in Wales
  • Go to Dis­ney­land in France
  • See the Gaudi build­ings in Bar­celona, Spain
  • See ‘Guer­nica’ by Picasso
  • Visit ancient monu­ments in Greece
  • Get inked
  • Buy an ori­ginal sculp­ture or painting
  • Go to the Opera
  • Watch a Ballet
  • Do the ‘Time Warp’ at a Rocky Hor­ror stage show — in full costume
  • Do a sponsored “run”
  • Go hand­bik­ing
  • Try out abseiling
  • Spon­sor a retired racing Greyhound
  • Adopt a retired racing Greyhound
  • Get a second Sighthound
  • Have a short story published
  • Write a novel
  • Have a book published
  • Own a pet tortoise
  • Sell a piece of my artwork
  • Have my work fea­tured in a pub­lic exhibition
  • Have a photo published
  • Fin­ish my ear project
  • Swim 200 metres
  • Bet on a win­ning Trap at “The Dogs”
  • Bet on a Grand National winner
  • Teach
  • Meet one of Ziggy’s relatives
  • Pho­to­graph someone, professionally
  • Hire a PA
  • Fin­ish my art/photography project
  • Do volun­teer work
  • Read all (known sur­viv­ing) Ancient Greek myths and legends
  • Fin­ish my BA degree
  • Study for a Mas­ters degree
  • Get a massage
  • Have a fam­ily bar­be­cue in my new back-garden
  • Write/work out­side in the garden dur­ing the Summer
  • Plant a ‘tub garden’ out the front
  • Do my physio three times a week, every week, for a year