Thursday 2 January 2014

Updated bucket list - and new project for you to help with

101 Things to do before I die - an updated list with some changes.

1. Learn to blow smoke rings
2. Throw a drink over someone
3. See the Aurora Borealis
4. Have dinner at the Fat Duck
5. See a glacier
6. Have my photo taken nude and like the result
7. Finish my book and have it published
8. Give 50 pounds to a busker
9. Go scuba diving
10. *Try an oyster*
11. Become fluent in another language
12. Swim with sharks
13. *Go to a Pride parade*
14. Take a ride in a hot air balloon
15. *Write a script*
16. Learn to drive
17. Skydive
18. Eat something I've grown myself
19. Learn to juggle
20. *Go to Torture Garden*
21. Volunteer at Burning Man
22. Wallpaper a room
23. Read every book listed in ‘1001 books you must read before you die’ 
24. Learn sign language
25. Own a bath big enough for two
26. *Smash a plate on purpose*
27. Send a message in a bottle
28. Have a library room in my house
29. Own a snake
30. Stay in the ice hotel
31. *Try caviar*
32. *Ask someone on a date*
33. *Stop having to order enough takeaway that they won’t realize I’m eating alone*
34. *Learn to knit*
35. Fly first class
36. *Start a blog*
37. Go a year without forgetting a single relative’s birthday
38. Live in another country for a year
39. Learn to salsa
40. *Get a degree*
41. Get a masters degree
42. Get a doctorate
43. Send a hand-written letter
44. Make jam
45. Visit the pyramids
46. *Give a dinner party*
47. Go white water rafting
48. Learn to cry on cue
49. Have a food fight
50. Be debt free 
51. See a manatee
52. Go into space (and take my dad with me)
53. *Have afternoon tea*
54. Work in a job that I love
55. Hold a koala
56. Complete the Times cryptic crossword without help
57. Go skiing
58. Spend 24 hours solid in a pub
59. Go to the Galapagos islands
60. *Mudlark on the banks of the Thames at low tide*
61. *Get a massage*
62. *Own a stuffed animal (taxidermy, not a teddy)*
63. Go to Mardi Gras
64. Take singing lessons
65. Go to a shop and try on wedding dresses a la Muriel
66. Learn to spin fire poi
67. Celebrate the Day of the Dead in Mexico
68. *Change somebody’s life for the better*
69. Hitchhike
70. Kiss underwater
71. Learn to play poker
72. Go to an airport and get on the next available flight, regardless of destination
73. Stand on the equator
74. Swim with bioluminescent plankton in Puerto Rico
75. Take a holiday on a canal boat with friends
76. Have enough cats to cross the line from ‘cat-lover’ to ‘crazy cat lady’
77. Find the perfect bra
78. Visit the Sistine chapel
79. Do a cartwheel
80. Give somebody flowers for no reason
81. Go to Iceland
82. Learn to ride a motorbike
83. *Be kissed under mistletoe*
84. Become a regular in a pub and have a ‘usual’
85. Learn the proper use of English grammar
86. Deliver a crushing comeback when insulted instead of gaping in disbelief like a stunned trout
87. Write a love letter
88. See penguins in the wild
89. Run (or more likely walk) the London marathon
90. Take a picture every day for a year
91. *Go to Glastonbury festival*
92. Take horse riding lessons
93. Organise a grown-up sleepover 
94. Put on pyjamas, get into a show bed in a shop and see how long it takes to get chucked out
95. Busk
96. Travel on the Orient Express
97. Live independently for a whole year
98. Couchsurf
99. Do stand-up
100. Write my will
101. Do ten things somebody else thinks I should do

Note number 101. I am now taking suggestions. It could be something that you think I would enjoy, or something you think it is important I learn or experience. Please make it specific to me, not too expensive (unless you're paying!) and make it something that can be resolutely ticked off.

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