As many of you know, a couple of years ago I wrote a post about 50 things I wanted to achieve before I am 50 years old in 2024; some of them long term goals.
I wrote an update in November 2108 which you can see here and also a previous one in July 2017, also available here.
However, I have yet again managed to tick a few more things off the list!
They aren’t written in any kind of order, just a random numbering and my aim is to complete them all in the next seven years. I will hopefully be doing updates as I go along, ticking off the things I have achieved and if there are things that are totally impossible (for health or safety reasons) then I will have a re-think and substitute them.
The list so far looks like this –
So, here goes!
- Visit the Opera
- Go on a Girl’s Holiday
- Visit Sketch for Afternoon Tea -DONE
- Have a cocktail night – DONE
- Abseil down a building
- Go to a Burlesque Night – DONE
- Take a ride in a vintage car – planned
- Learn German
- Publish an article in a Magazine – DONE
- Ride the Arcelormittal Orbit slide at the Olympic Park – Planned
- Have a photoshoot with Velvet D’Amour -DONE
- Go on the Eurostar – DONE
- Get my lily tattoo covered up – DONE
- Enter Miss Twinwood – DONE
- Host a Macmillan fundraising event – DONE
- Swim in an outdoor Lido in London
- Model for a Vintage company – DONE
- Blog from Disneyland Paris – DONE
- Hit 8K views a month on my blog – DONE
- Volunteer for Charity – DONE
- Go to an Alice in Wonderland party – DONE
- Go for a ride on a steam train
- Visit 10 foreign Countries in 8 years (So Far St Lucia, Hungary, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia, Germany)
- Go to a concert at The Royal Albert Hall – DONE
- “Run” a 5K for charity
- Ride a segway
- Go to Ladies Day at Ascot
- Read Les Miserables
- Go to Oktoberfest – DONE
- Take up a night class
- Drink a cocktail at The Shard
- Cycle along the canals in Amsterdam
- Spend a day collecting money for The Poppy Appeal
- Go for a skiing lesson
- Go to a stand-up comedy show – DONE
- Be a passenger on a motorbike ride – Planned
- Swim one mile in one go
- Go for a girl’s spa day – DONE
- Play the piano in Public
- Go to a private members club for drinks – DONE
- Learn to make macarons
- Go up the Eiffel Tower – DONE
- Take my family to Twinwood – DONE
- Hold a snake – DONE
- Ride a Zipwire – DONE
- Take a scuba diving lesson – Planned
- Spend some money at a casino
- Attend an outdoors theatre performance
- Take a picnic on a punt down the river in Cambridge or Oxford – planned
- Hold a 50th Birthday party
So far I have managed 23 of these, with several more in the pipeline. And I still have 5 years to go! Totally on target.
The most recent ones that have been accomplished are the ones below. Definitely watch this space for some new adventures to come though!
4. Have a cocktail night – This happen a few days before Christmas at the Besties house and we worked our way through several including a Golden Russian, Queen Mother, Monkey Gland, Long Island Ice Tea to name but a few. I may have ended up very inebriated!
Bottoms Up!
6. Go to a Burlesque Performace – Well it doesn’t get much better than seeing Dita Von Teese at The Palladium, which happened in November 2018. Oh what a night and what a woman!
15. Host a McMillan Fundraising event – This took place earlier in the year and I had previously missed it off the list! My friend Jane makes hats and together we put on an auction of her Millinery and raised a few hundred pound. It was hard work, but so worth it.
19. Hit 8K Views on my blog in a month. This one was especially difficult as I had been promoted and not able to put as much hard work and dedication into my blog as before. However I was over the moon to achieve this during 30 days over November and December 2018.
20. Volunteer for Charity – A few months back I started volunteering for the Talking Newspaper for the Blind. Every few weeks I head to the studio and spend around an hour being recorded reading articles from the local newspapers. These are then sent out to around 150 blind and limited sight listeners in our area.
24. Go to a concert at The Royal Albert Hall – This was accomplished in mid December 2018 when we went to see ‘4U’ A symphonic performance of the works of Prince. You can read about the adventure here and even see a few videos. It was a night to remember.
That Famous Ceiling
43. Take the Family to Twinwood – This happened in August 2018 when the hubby, daughter, Mum in Law, Sister in Law, Boo and some close friends came for the whole weekend. Much merriment was had and we caught up with a lot of old friends and made some new ones. They enjoyed it that much, that they have all booked again for 2019!
Twinwood 2018
Till next time,
SPSG xx