- 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 hear that given that I live by the coast, and my love for water-based activities (kayaking, water polo etc), that i’ve never been stand-up paddle boarding. I know, it’s terrible.
However, yesterday my gorgeous pal Lucy took me out for a day on the river. And let me tell you, despite an incident with getting tangled in a willow tree and a couple of first attempt splashes, I am a convert. I think trying new things can be such a humbling experience because we all have this innate tendency to want to be good at things and trying new things means that you’re inherently going to, well, suck. But the joy of sucessfully standing up, being at one with the river, befriending the swans, and even getting wrapped up in willow before my demise into the depths were all a part of the glorious adventure.
Below is the route we took and a few snaps (it didn’t go on Strava though, so did it really happen?)