Well it is now the penultimate day before my 49th birthday and the start of my 50@50. The challenge is to achieve some of those things I have just never quite got around to doing but really want to do and I have a year to complete them. I have also offered some friends and family the chance to suggest something, cerebral or physical but basically an enjoyable 1:1 experience with that person. So here it is…the list which will define a great part of my up and coming 12 months
- have drum lessons and learn at least one piece
- complete a bike ride
- take a generation photograph
- read all Agatha Christie novels
- do another 2-5 day extended walk
- make a piece of artwork
- see basking sharks in UK
- lose at least one and a half stone
- Read a non-fiction book
- let someone else order my food at an Indian restaurant
- sleep under the stars
- Disconnect from IT for one week
- have a holiday with my family
- have a driving lesson
- make a lemon meringue pie from scratch
- attend a flower show
- stand on Hastings pier with the one I love
- use my fishing rod
- visit the Eden Project and lost gardens of heligan
- make bread
- blog my 50@50
- go to a Maidstone United football match
- get one of my photographs printed or hung in public
- Watch a sunrise and sunset
- record my mums favourite memories
- finish the birthday bed in the garden
- take up a sport again
- spend a guilt free day in my PJs watching DVDs and eating KFC
- research and try meditation
- Watch the starling murmurations on Brighton Pier
- revisit every road and house I have lived in
- eat vegetarian food for two weeks
- grow my hair long
- go on a River Thames cruise
- go glamping in a yurt
- Chris = watch the original Italian Job film with him
- Katie = surprise on the day
- Matt = surprise on the day
- Candis =
- Nicky = positive news, recipes and top tips letter correspondence
- Debbie = meditation, willow work and sleeping out adventure
- Frankie = weekly recipe swap
- Helen = classical music event at the Royal Albert Hall
- Michaela =
- Yvonne = Grayson Perry art exhibition
- Fiona =
- Frances = moonlight walk
- Craig =
- Megan = canoeing adventure
Wish me luck
There are certainly a few challenges there. I wish you luck and hope you have lots of fun. xxx
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Thanks Yvonne, I looking forward to MOST of them xxx
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Crikey that is nearly one a week. Better get number 16 out of the way then get back to slimming world lol. Good luck x
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Joining at the beginning of september xxx
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Great list of challenges …let the fun begin tomorrow x
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Thanks Nicky, it has started now I have received your letter 😄
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Thanks Barb, I look forward to your comments. I am really excited about this year and all the fun I intend to have. Hope all is well with you. I’m have given a geranium to Frankie but it’s been so hot all my cuttings and transplants have suffered badly, sorry!! Happy to try again in autumn if it does not survive.
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I will follow your adventures with interest looks like being a busy year x
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I have been looking after the geraniums and one of them has even flowered, the other is looking a little sorry for itself but if anyone can give it the kiss of life its Barb 🙂 She picked the up on Wednesday after knit and bitch.
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I hope that the fact that I am number 50 and in different font is not significant …..?! Xxx
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You should know you always save the best until last!! And no significance other than the italic button was very temperamental 😉
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Love the list!!!
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Thanks Debbie, funnily enough it was really easy to compile as it was not ‘big’ things. So glad I chose to do it and thanks for following xxx
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Good ;ick – think I’m going to be busy too!!!
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I think you are…..we need to find a Sunday afternoon in September to have our Italian Job date ❤️
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