Back a few years ago, in the year I turned 40 I was encouraged to write a list of 40 things to do (See here for original post Absolute Friends – updated list) Here is that list in full. Sadly it wasn’t all completed but like all good lists it’s a work in progress.
Next will be 50 things when I’m 50!
- Eat at the Rattle Owl – Done 14th April
- Complete the TOPCWF 2016 – Done July 2016
- Afternoon tea at the Grand (My friend has already volunteered for that) – Done 17th June with Michelle
- See Orangutans in Borneo (actually a possibility as I’m going to Thailand at the end of the year) – Done December
- Eat a pizza in Italy – Done 3rd May in Turin
- Learn how to take good pictures – Done Course at Beningborough Hall 16th May
- Learn how to ride a bike – Done (well I managed to ride round Sherwood Forrest and only fell off once so it counts) 29th August
- Learn how to crochet – Done thanks to a book a friend lent me November
- Do a park run in at least 4 different cities (I was going to say 40 but thought that was rather excessive)
- Go on a wine tasting course and actually put it into practice (no more ordering ‘red wine, whatever is cheapest’!) – Done 1st October at the Guildhall.
- Bluebell walk – Done 9th May Hogg Wood, Dunnington
- Horse ride on a beach (I do ride horses so its not such a long shot)
- Grow sweetcorn – Tried rather than done.
- Ride in a hot air balloon – 10 May
- Visit Blackpool – done twice
- Visit the Tower of London – Done 16th October with Mr F
- Go on a Jack the Ripper walk – Done 14th October with The Sister
- Visit Cromer – Done 11 April 2017
- Go on a pony trek – Done
- Paint or draw a picture that actually looks like the thing its meant to
- Make a chinese meal from scratch – Done 13th August
- Visit 4 new National Trust Houses – Done
- Ride on a steam train
- Do an open water swim – Done December Sea counts as open water!
- Take 4 different pictures of Roundhay Park across the 4 seasons
- Run 4 10ks – Done Derwent Dash 15th May, Leeds 10th Jul, York 7th Aug, Yorkshire Coast 30th Oct.
- Row a boat
- Visit Yorkshire Wildlife Park – Done 22nd Oct with Mr F and Friends.
- Go to the Manchester Sealife Centre – Done 16th September
- See an Opera
- Make a daisy chain – Done April
- Go to the Horse Trials – Done 9th Oct Askham Bryan College
- Collect pine cones in a wood – Done 9th May Hogg Wood
- Go on a bat walk
- Have a picnic – done
- Visit to the seaside – Done 18th Aug Scarborough
- Watch a sunrise – Done in Cromer (despite a bit of cloud)
- Glass walk over Tower Bridge – Done 16th Oct
- Make a cake with a child – Done
- One thing of Mr F’s choosing – Done Visit to the Emmerdale set
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