Friday, June 19, 2020

57 challenges update

So far I have completed the following:


Plant a tree - completed
Make a wooden wine bottle holder - completed
Make a log planter Saturday 23rd May - completed
Make a log seat - completed
Take part in a school activity - completed
Make chutney - kimchi,
Complete 50 successful keepie uppies in a row - completed
Plant a hedge - completed

I have also begun the following, many of which are going to be continued over the year:

Cycle 57 miles in a day - in training with a 39 mile ride completed this week
Write blog - ongoing
Learn a dance routine - underway with performance planned for tomorrow!
Learn Spanish and Gaelic - ongoing and with French added to the mix
Run/walk/crawl a marathon - in training
Turn off the tap when brushing my teeth - ongoing
Buy an extra item of food each shop for food bank - ongoing
Walk av. of 15000 steps a day - underway and close to 20000
Listen to a new album once a week - underway Strokes, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, Perfume Genius, Enter Shikari, Sleaford Mods, Hot Chip, Lady Gaga,
Collect firewood once a week - ongoing

That's 18 either done or well underway, leaving 39 to be tackled. Of course, circumstances right now mean tackling a number of them is impossible due to restrictions e.g. no Parkrun due to the ban on gatherings.

What is left to start?

Motorhoming in Cornwall - booked for August in Newquay
Swimming at Tinside - summer trip to Plymouth when pools have reopened
Thai cooking
Take part in a charity bike ride - depends on events such as this resuming
Take part in at least 10 Saturday parkruns - depends on events such as this resumingnds
Have a picnic on Dartmoor - summer trip to Plymouth
Hike from Princetown to Plymouth - summer trip to Plymouth
Swim a mile
Go paddle boarding -depends on events such as this resuming
Bake cakes for a giveaway 'sale'
Woodlands litter pick
Watch a ballet
Make a child's wooden tool box
Go paddling in a stream
Visit the Russell Cotes Museum
Visit the National Gallery in London
Read a book by James Joyce
Watch a meteor shower
Visit an RSPB reserve
Do a beach clean up
Make a bird table
Give children materials for making their own reindeer decorations
Decorate the front room
Do a night's wild camping
Do Junior Parkrun in at least 4 different locations - depends on events such as this resuming
Watch Plymouth Argyle home and away -depends on events such as this resuming
Visit an Island
Play Hide and Seek in a castle
Have a snowball fight
Go on Go Ape
Bake a fruit cake
Make blackberry jam
Share a Sunday afternoon cream tea
See the Red Arrows
Bake using the Dutch Oven
Play boule on a beach in the rain
See an osprey
Have a yes day- say yes to everything
Make my way way home - Dropped off in the middle of somewhere I don’t know and left to get home
A day with no phone
Fast for one day
Sing a song of someone else’s choice to be shared on social media
Spend a day in fancy dress for no reason
Take the children for a midnight ramble

I thought I would count the remaining challenges and found the numbers don't add up. There aren't 57, there are 62! How did I manage that? Does it mean I should ditch 5 I don't fancy or the ones that end up being the last 5? Or should I just get on with it? How am I going to have a snowball fight if it doesn't snow? Am I going to have to make a special trip to find snow?


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