30 before 30: No. #22 – Carve a pumpkin

The list:

  1. Learn to ride a motorbike
  2. Go skydiving
  3. Learn how to ski/surf
  4. Eat a vegetable that you’ve grown from seed
  5. Deadlift 100kg
  6. Pay for a stranger’s meal
  7. Swim Boscombe to Bournemouth pier
  8. Learn how to play poker
  9. Do the splits
  10. Have visited 30 countries
  11. Cycle London to Brighton
  12. Go to the opera
  13. Read the bible entirely
  14. Get a tattoo
  15. Sleep under the stars
  16. Repair a bike puncture
  17. Go to a life drawing class
  18. Engage in a clinical trial
  19. Go to Shakespeare’s Globe
  20. Go to an outdoor screening of a film
  21. Sell a piece of artwork you’ve created 
  22. Carve a pumpkin
  23. Do a pull up 
  24. Go stand up paddle boarding
  25. Climb the three peaks
  26. Write and record a song
  27. Learn to play chess
  28. Visit someone in prison
  29. Read a famous trilogy 
  30. 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: