I'm excited to announce that a major one for me is now complete:
I've just published the final book in the Sheridan and Blake Adventure Series - 'Gabriel's Game, Part 2: The Black Knight'
I'll be 40 in December, so I have a year to do 40 things from a mini-Bucket List
Here's the original post where I share my 40 things
I should have achieved a third of these by now... I've not quite reached that milestone
I'm getting there slowly - here's what I've done so far:
16. Try a new vegetable and cook with it
I tried celeriac. I took to Pinterest and found some recipes. Roasted in oil with other root veg with a roast dinner was the best!
17. Try a new fruit and cook with it
I tried lychee. Technically I didn't cook with it, I added it to smoothies. The thing that freaked me out about fresh lychee's was how much they look and feel like eyeballs. They'd make a great Halloween treat!
21. See the northern lights
This was an amazing experience. We saw them during a long weekend to Iceland. We went out on a boat into the harbour at 11pm. At first there were just few greenish wisps of clouds, then mother nature gave us a spectacular show!
22. Go vegetarian for a week
This was a tough one, as it's not so much that I have to have meat, but that I cook for myself and my husband and he likes to eat meat every day. He was forced to be veggie for the week too (there was no way I was going to watch him eat meat without me!)
In the end, this was not as challenging as I imagined it would be. It forced me to think more carefully about what I was eating. I was almost vegan, in fact, except that I like a squirt of honey and splash of milk in my tea and I eat eggs a couple of days a week for breakfast. If I substituted my tea for black coffee and herbal tea and didn't eat eggs, I could try being vegan for a spell. This would certainly help with no. 2: 'Get back to a size 14'!
28. Go on a spontaneous adventure
This was a tame one, but we still enjoyed our day. The adventure involved going to Temple Meads Train Station and getting on a train. We didn't have a particular destination in mind, but it needed to be relatively close by and not too pricey.
We ended up spending a day being tourists in Gloucester.
29. Go to a city I've never been to before
... I could count Gloucester as this one. Despite only being down the road in Bristol, we've never been there. However, I'm going to choose Reykjavik (bit more exotic and interesting than Gloucester!)
39. Leave inspiring notes for people to find
I made up a selection of little notes with inspiring quotes on and for a couple of weeks, carried them around in my pocket and left them in cafe's, bars, restaurants etc. around Bristol.
I'm changing my list a little.
There were some things on the original list that, on further reflection, I don't want to do. For example: leaving a message in a bottle - there's enough litter in the ocean without me adding to it!
So here's my updated 40 / 40 list - there are a couple of gaps now, I plan to fill these as the year progresses as I'm sure some opportunities that are not apparent to me now will present themselves later in 2016:
Since making the changes. I've achieved another one:
26. Travel First Class
We took a train to Taunton and first class tickets were less than standard.
Big comfortable seats, lots of leg room and free tea and biscuits - lovely!
