The list begins!

The continuing adventures of a girl trying to achieve forty things before she hits the grand old age of forty...

March 16^th 2012

Forty things

Those of you who know me well will know my love of lists. You also know how much I love to stuff my life full to the brim and be stupidly busy all the time doing things. So, I bring you the ultimate list of lists. Tah dah! My list of ‘forty things to do before I hit forty’. (That’s six years away by the way.) It combines my love of lists and busy-ness with the desire to make forty sound less scary and more exciting.

I did make an original ambitions list; meet Tom Baker, write a novel, act in a farce, own a mini Cooper and go to Australia. However I’ve managed to do all those, so I needed a longer, bigger better stronger list. This list includes lots of lovely places to travel to, some useful skills which I’ll need in my life as an adventuress, some long term ambitions and some things which I just really should have got around to by now.

The idea of this blog is to record my efforts and success or otherwise. The list itself is written in alphabetical order and I’m attempting them according to time, cost and possibility, so it won’t necessarily be in numerical order.

I’m hoping to have fun along the way, so I just hope you’ll have fun reading about my journey too. Thanks!

Number 8: Achieve another qualification (achieved)

Strictly speaking I can tick this one off. I achieved my Fundraising Diploma, or MinstF (Dip) to those in the know, in November 2011. I made the original list in October. I suppose I did have visions of something a bit more solid. The Diploma just involved converting my original certificate through a professional development log. Not quite the degree in environmental science I envisaged. Anyway, I’ll tick it off for now but keep on looking. This Saturday I’m going to attend a bat care course at the Royal Vets in Edinburgh. Maybe there’s some sort of bat qualification I can get. Does such a thing exist?

Number 10: Go to a festival (progressing)

I’ve made some progress with this one and booked ‘Primavera Sound 2012’. No camping, no mud, no filth. Just Barcelona, beer, pizza and great music. Like Glastonbury but with more sunshine and less people weeing on your tent.