Just a reminder of where we’re up to on the list (so far, only five down; but got a few blog posts to catch up with and 350 days ahead of me yet!)
- 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 puncture
- Go to a life drawing class
Engage in a clinical trialGo 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
This day was such a special one because it was on father’s dad and I got to do it with my dad! We set off from sunny Clapham and had a great first section. Initially we got out quite well and decided that we’d try and get in a good stint before cycling (there were ten rest points across the journey and we opted not to stop until we’d reached the fourth). Just after we’d had some food, water and popped a little oil on the chain we headed off again, but much to our dismay we were then stopped (with a huge number of other riders) as there had been some kind of ‘incident’. Later we found out that a rider had tragically passed away, but we were glad that they had been surrounded by family and friends on that day.
We were rerouted about a mile and the whole thing probably added an hour on, thankfully we weren’t racing or in any particular hurry.
A few weeks earlier i’d tried to give blood and it’d been picked up that I had an iron deficiency anaemia, and I have to say, I was feeling particularly weary, but it was so nice that my dad (and his new knee) were there all the way for encouragement. He was thrilled to set off the speed camera on the downhill after bossing Ditchling Beacon, at which point the heavens opened and we got completely and utterly drenched coming into Brighton.
That said, I had a magnificent day and there’s no other way i’d rather have spent father’s day!
P.s. I was blown away by the generosity of my fundraising friends and very nearly hit my target… if you think you could be the £4 to take me over the line, I feel like there’d be a real sense of closure (so i’ll pop that link in just in case!) https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/daisy-w1
Less Than One Hundred 