My Life List

The last couple of years have been life changing for me. I have had the courage to leave a marriage that was no longer working, and I have moved into a wonderful house with my Little Miss. Without the support of friends and family I would still be in that bad place.

This did originally start as a 40 things before I was 40 list. Some I completed in the year before I was 40 some are still on going. That is why this has now become my Life List (Bucket List). Some of these things are very small and trivial. Others are emotional and challenging. 

1. Set up a blog - 2011
2. Read 40 books - 2012
3. Go on the London Eye - 15 April 2011
4. Visit Stonehenge - 1 May 2011
5. Get an iphone - 17 May 2011
6. Visit Leicester, my birthplace - 26/27 June 2011
7. Rufa Fish on feet - 2 July 2011
8. Sponsored walk across all the London bridges - September 2016
9. Learn to crochet - Granny square course 3 August 2013
10. Upholstery course.
11. Visit Fortnum & Mason - 21 January 2012
12. Afternoon tea in London with Mum - 2015
13. Learn to ride a bike.
14. Learn to drive a car - passed practical test 30 April 2013
15. Take part in Race for Life. May 2014
16. Do the Moonwalk in London.
17. Set up Etsy/Folksy shop.
18. Visit Paris with Sophie.
19. Sell my makes at a craft stall - May 2012
20. Stay overnight in London - 24/25 March 2012
21. Visit Petticoat Lane Market. - 2013
22. Visit Columbia Road Flower Market - 18 September 2011
23. Visit Brick Lane Market. - June 2013
24. Visit Burlington Arcade London - 21 January 2012
25. Visit Portobello Road Market - 26 January 2013
26. Visit Camden Lock & Stables Market - 8 April 2012
27. Lay on the ground and look up at the stars.
28. Weekend away on my own.
29. Visit York - 4 September 2011
30. Visit Dawlish - 23 July 2011
31. Go on a tourist bus in London.
32. Go camping, just me and Little Miss - July 2018
33. Change surname back to my maiden name - 1 January 2012
34. Visit White Horse at Uffington.
35. Start going to a book club again - June 2012
36. Pink streak in hair.
37. Ride on a motorcycle.
38. Visit Late @ Tate Britain.
39. Pay off evil credit card - March 2013
40. Visit Twinning & Co London - April 2014
41. See the Lowry Collection at Salford - June 2016
42. Ride a horse.
43. Pay off all money owed to family - March 2019
44. Visit Highgate Cemetary.
45. Go on a ghost walk - 5 September 2011
46. Go on a Jack the Ripper walk.
47. Watch the sun set and then watch it rise over a beach.
48. Have an emergency money fund, £1,000 - April 2019
49. Buy my own car - May 2013
50. Go to a concert - Coldplay - June 2016
51. Go to the opera.
52. See a ballet show
53. Stay at a health spa
54. Visit NYC with my Little Miss
55. Go inter railing.
56. Travel coast to coast in America by train or bus.
57. Make a successful soufflé - February 2013
58. Buy a piece of art - May 2017
59. Visit the Weald & Downland Museum - August 2013
60. Visit the Isle of Skye.
61. Do a bungee jump.
62. Have a meal at the Oxo Tower.
63. Have tea at the National Gallery.
64. Visit Cadburys World - December 2012
65. Eat at a Michelin stared restaurant.
66. Visit the Northern Quarter vintage shops Manchester - June 2016
67. Visit Bath - 2015
68. Re-visit Scarborough - July 2017
69. Re-visit Whitby - July 2017
70. Get an ipad - August 2013
71. Buy myself an item of jewellery - May 2012
72. Visit Stoke on Trent and paint pottery.
73. Celebrate New Years Eve in London - 31 December 2011
74. Visit Sir John Soane Museum.1 June 2013
75. Visit Dr Johnson's House - 3 Aug 2013
76. Have a meal at a noodle bar - January 2012
77. Have a meal at a Sushi bar - Feb 2015
78. Visit Whitstable - August 2016
79. Go to an auction.
80. New Years Day Parade in London - 1 January 2013
81. Save for a deposit for our own house.
82. Visit Rome.
83. Have a will - Nov 2013
84. Life Insurance Nov 2013
85. Pension Oct 2014
86. Go on a ghost walk - York 2011
87. Go crabbing
88. Visit Barcelona
89. Go Horse Riding
90. Visit and stay in every Ceremonial County in England by 2020.

• *Bedfordshire (Woburn) - 2016
• Berkshire
• Bristol
• Buckinghamshire
• *Cambridgeshire - Ely 2019
• *Cheshire - Chester 2019
• City of London
• *Cornwall (Looe) - 2011
• Cumbria
• *Derbyshire (Matlock) - 2012
• *Devon (Dawlish) - 2011, Exmouth 2019
• *Dorset (Weymouth) - 2016, Weymouth 2019
• Durham
• East Riding Yorkshire
• *East Sussex (Rye) - 2012 (Brighton) 2015 (Normans Bay) 2018, 2019
• *Essex (Southend on Sea) - 2010
• Gloucestershire
• *Greater London - 2012, 2014
• *Greater Manchester (Manchester) - 2016
• Hampshire
• Herefordshire
• Hertfordshire
• *Isle of Wight (Sandown) - 2010
• *Kent (Whitstable) - 2016
• Lancashire
• *Leicestershire (Leicester) - 2011
• *Lincolnshire (Bourne) - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• *Merseyside - Liverpool 2019, Southport 2019
• *Norfolk (Great Yarmouth) - 2012 (West Runton) - 2014
• *North Yorkshire (York) - 2011 (Scarborough) - 2017
• Northamptonshire
• Northumberland
• Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Rutland
• Shropshire
• *Somerset (Wincanton) - 2014 (Bath) - 2015 (Cheddar) - 2017
• South Yorkshire
• Staffordshire
• Suffolk
• *Surrey (Godalming) - 2014
• Tyne & Wear
• *Warwickshire - Stratford on Avon 2019
• West Midlands
• *West Sussex (Fishbourne) - 2013
• *West Yorkshire (Leeds) - 2017
• Wiltshire
• Worcestershire