It seems I’m currently cherry picking the easiest targets and leaving myself in a real pickle for these last three months of being a twenty-nine year old (oops!)
A reminder of the list:
- Learn to ride a motorbike
- Go skydiving
Learn how to ski/surf- Eat a vegetable that you’ve grown from seed
- Deadlift 100kg
Pay for a stranger’s meal- Swim Boscombe to Bournemouth pier
- Learn how to play poker
- Do the splits
Have visited 30 countriesCycle London to BrightonGo to the opera- Read the bible entirely
Get a tattoo- Sleep under the stars
Repair a bike punctureGo to a life drawing classEngage in a clinical trialGo to Shakespeare’s GlobeGo to an outdoor screening of a film- Sell a piece of artwork you’ve created
Carve a pumpkin- Do a pull-up
- Go stand-up paddle boarding
- Climb the three peaks
- Write and record a song
- Learn to play chess
- Visit someone in prison
- Read a famous trilogy
Become a doctor
You might be surprised to learn that I don’t know how to repair a bike puncture, particularly those of you who know I cycled with my friends around the Netherlands, Belgium and France a couple of summer’s ago. Here’s the amazing thing; I didn’t get a puncture! In fact, of all five of us on the trip, I think my friend Rufus was the only one to have that bad luck.
Nevertheless when my dad told me the cheap run around ‘beach bike’ (i.e. the one we let get all sandy) had a puncture, I jumped on the opportunity.
Do you see the excitement in my face on that last one? Sometimes it’s so satisfying learning something new, even if it’s just something simple. Never underestimate the power of trying new things. As the saying goes, “every day is a school day”.
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