Aha blog! Did you think I'd forgotten about you? Never! You are always at the back of my mind, always looking for another opportunity to cross one more task off my list.
I'm just back from a long weekend in sunny Scarborough. Unfortunately there never seemed to be the opportunity to complete my skinny dip task, so I will have to ear mark that for a secluded river somewhere in Nottinghamshire. I am grateful I didn't do the mass skinny dip that I talked about in a previous post, due to several reasons. The most important one is that the 'discreet' photography wasn't all that discreet having seen some of the photos in the press. Seeing my ample assets would certainly put most people off their breakfast, that's for certain.
My wonderful friend, Frenchy Phil, has sent me a French disc to spur me on to learn a new language, so you never know I may just be able to cross that task off before I turn 40.
As for my 40th itself, I can't really decide what to do. I thought about having high tea at one of the restaurants in Nottingham for all my girlfriends, but none of my friends know each other, so that could prove to be a little awkward. I think me and the husband (who turns 40 in September!) are just going to book a table at World Service. I'm hoping to have lost some of my excess baggage by then, so I may even treat myself to a new frock - push the boat out so to speak! I don't think I relish the idea of having a big do. I hate being the centre of attention at the best of times, so whatever I get up to on the day, will be discreet.
Follow my journey to see if I can complete a set of 40 tasks before my 40th birthday.
Completed Tasks
24/40
Currently Working On....
Learning a foreign language and choosing a location for skinny dipping
The List
- 1) Learn a foreign language - in progress
- 2) Watch a foreign film - completed
- 3) Go skinny dipping
- 4) Snog Take That
- 5) Write a novel and get published - in progress
- 6) Go in a hot air balloon - completed
- 7) Work in Africa
- 8) Go to an international football match in the new Wembley - completed
- 9) Visit all 50 states of America - in progress (4/50)
- 10) Get my own column in a newspaper/magazine
- 11) Win a BAFTA
- 12) Do a sponsored hike/bike ride for charity - completed
- 13) Read all of the BBC Top 100 reads - completed
- 14) Go to Wimbledon - completed
- 15) Rescue an animal from captivity - in progress
- 16) Be a Mum
- 17) Go to a Paul Smith fashion show
- 18) Watch the Lord Of The Rings trilogy - completed
- 19) Go surfing - completed
- 20) Go to the ballet - completed
- 21) See a Shakespearean play at the RSC in Stratford - completed
- 22) Drive a Ferrari - completed
- 23) Have tea at the Ritz in London - completed
- 24) Create a short film to go onto You Tube - completed
- 25) Learn to do the tango - completed
- 26) Meet Mr T
- 27) Own a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes - completed
- 28) Be in Times Square, NY at midnight on New Years Eve - completed
- 29) Write a script/story for Dr Who - completed
- 30) Ride on a Harley Davidson to Ayres Rock
- 31) Go to an ice hockey match - completed
- 32) Go to a baseball match - completed
- 33) Watch a Nottingham Forest match from an executive box - completed
- 34) Learn to play chess - completed
- 35) Fly a trapeze - completed
- 36) See Rick Springfield in concert
- 37) Fly over the Grand Canyon - completed
- 38) Watch all of the James Dean films - completed
- 39) Cook with a celebrity chef
- 40) Go to the Grand Prix
About Me
- Janette
- A couple of years ago, I decided that my life needed a challenge and I would put together a list of everything I wanted to do before I was 40. I e-mailed various media sources and BBC Radio Nottingham have kindly adopted me (sort of!). I will be doing regular updates on the Breakfast/Morning shows
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5 comments:
hope that the disc helps you with pronunciation. I thought that is was a fun way to learn.
I think you are brave even thinking about skinny dipping. Perhaps you could hire one of those bathing huts on wheels used by Edwardians (or was it Victorians - I'm hopeless with history), then you could be pushed into the water, strip off under cover, & emerge briefy, mainly hidden by the hut.
Your ideas for the Big 40 celebration sound perfect to me....is it long to go?
Hi Phil,I'm sure it will, now just got to find time to look at it properly - thanks for doing it for me!
Karen - the bathing huts that's exactly what I need!!! Believe the skinny dipping will be done in a very remote location! Big 40 is in November but hubbie celebrates his in September so I think it will be 2 months full of celebrations!
I did a mass skinny dipping myself last year but luckily I didn't get in any of the photos...although I was drunk enough to allow myself to be interviewed by the local news crew that showed up, from the shouldars up, of course. Can't wait to hear about your plans for the 40th-you've got to make it BIG!
101 - unfortunately I don't drink any more so I could never pluck up the courage to try a mass skinny dip but well done you and I would love to know if the report averted his eyes! As for the big 40th celebrations as the day gets nearer so does my resolve to do anything on a grand scale, so I've a feeling it will be a quiet day!
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