The 40 Things List

So, here it is! This is the definitive list of forty things I would like to achieve before my 40th birthday. This list is a real mix of things I have never done alongside things I have done in my past which I would like to do again.

With my 40th birthday falling in November 2019, I have just over two years to complete. Wish me luck!

1. Have a bonfire on the beach
2. Watch the sun set whilst sat on a cliff overlooking the sea
3. Visit a European city
4. Stay out until the sun comes up
5. Visit Alnwick Castle
6. See a golden eagle in the wild
7. Do a ghost walk in York
8. Visit the Natural History Museum
9. Learn a new language – at least to a point that I can ask general questions and hold a simple conversation
10. Learn to sing (or at least do a decent-ish karaoke)
11. Go sea fishing
12. Own a giant foam hand
13. Read, or re-read, at least 5 literary ‘classics’. I am using the Guardians top 100 greatest novels as a guide: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction
14. Eat a food that I have never tried before
15. Try falconry
16. Shoot a bow and arrow
17. Swim in the ocean
18. Hold a combined Halloween/birthday/Guy Fawkes party (my 40^th birthday perhaps?)
19. Grow a fruit or vegetable from seed (that I haven’t grown before, so sorry chilli and tomato) and cook a meal for others with it
20. Walk/dance barefoot in the rain – no umbrella allowed!!
21. Get up early and experience the dawn chorus
22. Visit Land’s End
23. Spend the night at a haunted house
24. Be part of a studio audience
25. Make a Christmas wreath from natural materials
26. Go on a protest march for a cause/campaign I believe in
27. Go dolphin or whale or shark (even better, all three!) watching
28. Build a blanket fort and spend the night in it
29. See the Northern Lights
30. Walk in woods carpeted with bluebells
31. Take my parents out to the theatre
32. Do an escape room challenge
33. Speak, or perform, in front of an audience
34. Make homebrew
35. Knit something
36. Camp
37. Spend New Year somewhere that isn’t my home town
38. Eat a hotdog at a travelling fun fair
39. Meet someone famous
40. Keep a progress diary on ’40 Things Before 40′ (that’ll be this very blog!)

 

I will also pin this list to the menu, so I get a constant reminder of my dreams 🙂