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 countries
- Cycle London to Brighton
Go to the opera- Read the bible entirely
- Get a tattoo
- Sleep under the stars
- Repair a bike puncture
- Go to a life drawing class
- Engage in a clinical trial
- Go to Shakespeare’s Globe
- Go 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
A little while ago (somewhere around the end of October), myself and my Texan friend Brie each sat down with a knife, popped on a suitably haloween-y but also nonsense-y film (the kind that you don’t need to concentration on too much to still get the plot) and took to carving a pumpkin.
I appreciate that at twenty-eight years of age this is usually a skill that you’ve mastered, and yet it was one i’d not even tried before. Apparently I made the school boy error of cutting out too much around the lid so my pumpkin’s hat would not go back on… i’ve learnt my lesson for next time!
Here’s the outcome, mine’s on the left: