The Bucket List

Everyone has a bucket list these days, right? Well here is mine - the list of things that I'd like to do before I kick the bucket. 

It's an ever-expanding and ever-so-slightly random list of things I would like to achieve, see, do, make and experience in my life. Some of the things on my bucket list should be easy, and it's just a case of me getting myself motivated to get on with them and some will be slightly harder and even impossible, but shoot for the moon and even if you miss you'll land among the stars, or so they say.

1.   Have a book published

2.   Swim with a dolphin

3.   Learn to swim (ahem)

4.   Attend dance classes

5.   Own a pair of sequinned leggings (achieved January 2012)

6.   Read the entire Roald Dahl collection with my daughter

7.   Run a 5k race

6.   Go to a Greek island

7.   Witness the birth of a baby

8.   Go deep-sea fishing

9.   Learn conversational Spanish

10. Learn to play an instrument

11. Go on a cruise

12. See the Northern Lights

13. Visit the Everglades

14. Go to Pompeii

15. Visit Auschwitz

16. Go to Pearl Harbour

17. Grow roses in my garden successfully.

18. Learn to prune fruit trees, properly

19. Have a greenhouse (achieved March 2012)

20. Grow a giant pumpkin

21. Have afternoon tea at a posh venue

22. Own a vintage Fiat 500

23. Fly first class

24. Own some jewellery from Tiffany & Co

25. Buy a telescope and go star-gazing

26. See The Killers live (again) (achieved August 2012 & October2012) 

27. Shake hands with a major Royal Family member

28. Hold a monkey

29. Write a letter to my children now, to be opened on their 18th birthdays, just in case

30. Go to a Michelin star restaurant for dinner

31. Visit Disneyworld at Christmas

32. Have a fish pedicure

33. Cut my hair short

34. Go to a music festival (achieved August 2012)

35. See Phantom of the Opera(achieved August 2013)

36. Take the children camping (achieved June 2012)

37. Visit Hampton Court Palace 

38. Go to Alcatraz

39. Make a really big snowman

40. Make a gingerbread house

41. Have Christmas on the beach

42. Own a holiday home

43. Master the art of contact lenses

44. Eat a footlong sub from Subway
45. Own an iPad (achieved October 2012)
46. Go to a European F1 Grand Prix 
47. Buy a Fortnum & Mason picnic hamper 
48. Start a history degree
49. Take a creative writing course
50. Read all the Harry Potter books
51. Find the PERFECT red dress
52. Climb a mountain
53. Take my son on a steam train (achieved December 2012)
54. Go on a "Jack the Ripper" tour
55. See a meteor shower
56. Find something I am good at
57. Finally move my blog to self-hosted Wordpress
58. Be a member of the audience on a top TV show
59. Create my own family history website
60. Turn all my vinyl into MP3 files (achieved October 2012)
61. Have dinner at the Grand Floridian at Disneyworld
62. Go to a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight display
63. Stand on Chesil Beach with my children
64. Take the children crabbing at Walberswick (achieved May 2013)
65. Visit Bronte country
66. Go cockle-picking in Poole Harbour at sunset
67. Grow my own mistletoe
68. Stay in the hotel on Burgh Island
69. Take my children on a cliff railway
70. Successfully grow a watermelon
71. Meet up with an old friend
72. Buy a VW campervan (achieved April 2012)
73. Amend my will to leave a legacy to RNLI
74. Go to the south of France (achieved August 2013)
75. Make a hot water crust pastry pie
76. See a lamb being born
77. See Les Mis on stage (achieved November 2013)
78. Learn conversational Italian
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Clearly this is not an exhaustive list, and it's one I will be constantly adding to. I'll also revisit it from time to time to update it with my progress.

Feel free to share your own bucket lists with me!