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Swim in an infinity pool somewhere hot

Zip Wires

To be captured tastefully in art in some form

Go to a football match, grass roots not premier league

Learn sign language

Experience paragliding or parascending

Go on the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run again - used to go every year (first Sunday in November), picnic on the verge at Hassocks and warm doughnuts on the pier in Brighton

See the Lewes Bonfire Festival in Sussex - this could tie in with No 9

Drive a fast car at a race track

Have a smokey-eyed make-over 

Finish writing my book - Underway

  

Go on a Thames River Cruise

Learn to play chess

See the Northern Lights

Send messages in bottles - 2 launched so far, 1 found off the coast of Holland

Go to the Isle of Man again

Learn how to play cards

Have a ride in a hot air balloon

Go to London Zoo

Go on the Edinburgh Sleeper train to the Highlands

Appear on a quiz show

Meet Claudia Winkleman

Meet Adam Ant!

Do a parachute jump (not til my knee replacement is on its way out, Doctors orders)

See Adam Ant live - 3 times done and counting....

Have a champagne cream tea in the Tower Ballroom

Learn to sew

Walk the length of Blackpool prom when the Illuminations are on and have chips at the end (like we used to do as kids - happy, happy days)

Go whale watching

Go on a horse/dog pulled sleigh through thick snow

Visit Dollywood

Attend a live recording of Strictly Come Dancing TV show at Blackpool Tower.

Anonymously pay for someone's tea/coffee in a cafe - done twice

See a Wimbledon singles final

Go to the top of a wind turbine

See Cirque du Soleil - done Oct 2022

Go to a festival, but a small select one with a comfy hotel nearby

Go to Chatsworth House - done Aug 2021

Go to New York and do the Sex & the City tour

Ride a jet ski

Ride a quad bike

Visit Paris  - completed Sept '23 with Karen, hope to go again '24

Visit the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower 

A night at the ballet

Go round Blackpool Pleasure Beach, have hot dogs and candyfloss like in the old days

See the Morris Horn Dance in Thaxted - lived in the area for over 12 years and never saw it

Get the lil train up Snowdon

Stroke a lion or tiger cub

Live by the sea 

Visit the highest pubs in Wales, Scotland & England -  

The Sportsman's Arms - A543 between Denbigh & Pentrefoleas, Wales.
The Wanlockhead Inn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - 1,440ft.
The Tan Hill pub, North Yorkshire - 528m above sea level

Wear period costume

Visit at many pubs in the UK as possible, currently over 900 since 1987.

Visit as many Three Horseshoes pubs with Mary

Short break in Central London, walk by the Thames at night, drinks by the river

Go a the Houses of Parliament tour, see the cupboard the suffragette hid in before the census.

Take a mold of intertwined hands

New Year's Eve in London watching the fireworks 

Drive a campervan round the coastline of England

Have a day at the zoo experience, feeding giraffes or elephants or anything really 

And these have been completed....  with the help of Karen, Jon, Denise, Colette, Alan, Stella, Carole, Derek, Fatima, Yousef, Hari,  

Visit Jon & Karen in Ireland - COMPLETED - August 2017

Have my face painted - COMPLETED - October 2017

Learn to knit - COMPLETED - 2018, made fingerless fox mittens from a kit Dee bought me

Go on a narrow boat - COMPLETED - Day out on Collette & Alan's boat, then a 4 day girlie holiday in Sept 2018

Pull a pint at The Three Horseshoes, Duton Hill - I've pulled 1,000's there but just one more eh?
COMPLETED - twice in 2018

Find my charm bracelet which I lost sometime in 2018 - COMPLETED - found in a handbag on what would have been Mel's 55th birthday

Visit Chester Zoo - COMPLETED - Feb, Aug & Sept 2019 with Fatima, Yousef, and Hari

Sit by the sea and watch a sunset, champagne in hand - COMPLETED - Stella, Carole, Karen and I did this on the girlie holiday to Sussex in Sept 2019

Go to Northumberland, Lindisfarne & see Grace Darling grave - COMPLETED - New Years Day 2020

Go to a Cat Cafe - anywhere in the world will do - COMPLETED - 16th Feb 2020