All the blogging in the world about a bucket list is going to be pretty useless without a list…

How would you know what I had planned, or how much I had already achieved? More importantly – how would I know? I’ve got to keep track of it somewhere!

My life is full… probably too full. As a one-woman whirlwind my life is full of half-completed lists, which I get bored with and are then ‘tidied’ (I’m pretty sure into the bin) by my weary spouse. This one is different, it means a lot to me and I’ve been working on it for a long time. On here I definitely can’t lose it.

Are you ready? It’s a long one, which is open to suggestions – the numbers in brackets are the ones I have done and the corresponding year. In no particular order, before I kick the proverbial, I intend to…

• Ride in a hot air balloon
• Go white water rafting
• Go to the Rio Carnival
• Scuba Dive
• Fly an aeroplane
• Run the London Marathon (2000)
• Kayak the Grand Canyon
• Visit the Louvre (2013 & 2014… sort of…)
• Walk the Three Volcanoes (Vesuvius, Etna and Stromboli)
• Fight in a proper boxing match
• Hike to Machu Pichu
• Trek the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains
• Go to a proper music concert
• Buy a plane ticket to a random place
• Take a Gondola ride in Venice
• London to Brighton Bike Ride
• Learn to sail a boat
• Visit Australia
• Complete a Tough Mudder (Major Series 2014… twice!)
• Swim with sea turtles (2012)
• Travel on the Orient Express
• Everest Base Camp
• Complete a Triathlon
• Do Yoga every day for three months
• Climb Kilimanjaro
• National Three Peaks Challenge (2011)
• Trek on the Great Wall of China
• Have tea at The Ritz
• Visit Las Vegas
• Set a World Record
• Go on an African Safari
• Swim with Dolphins
• Learn to surf
• London to Paris Bike Ride (2013 & 2014)
• Visit the Taj Mahal
• Donate blood
• Dance in the rain
• Learn calligraphy
• Sleep in an igloo
• Go Zorbing
• Publish a book
• Ride a camel in the desert
• Learn sign language
• Experience zero gravity
• Visit Disney World
• Sell a piece of my own art
• Start my own business
• Have a massage once a month for a year
• Celebrate St Patricks day in Ireland
• Learn to play golf
• Do a fire walk
• Have a fencing lesson
• Visit Las Vegas (2014)
• Learn to ski
• Go on a yoga retreat
• Read every Purlitzer Prize winner for fiction
• Watch a TV show being filmed
• Visit Vatican City
• Ride in a fighter jet
• Go to a music festival
• Drive Route 66
• Go to a rodeo
• Watch every film that has won an Oscar for Best Picture
• …