Having seen Mackenzie Horan's list of 101 things that she is planning to do in the next 1001 days, I was inspired to write my own. So, I created a blog and started making a list of all those things I'd said I would do and had never got around to doing (and a few things that are less aspirational and more essential for becoming an actual, real life grown up...). Here goes nothing!
Starts: 1st January 2014
Ends: 14th September 2016
{51 complete, 50 to go!}
Come up with 101 things(18th February 2014)Inspire someone to write a list of their own- Throw my first dinner party
Drink eight glasses of water every day for at least one week- Visit a continent that I've never been to before
- See a new West End show (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 5th July 2014)
- Throw a murder mystery party
Send someone flowers out of the blue(1st December 2015)Read every Jane Austen novel (Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility)(13th August 2014)- Read 15 more books off my “list of books to read” (Total: 12)
- The Code of the Woosters (20th March 2014)
- Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde (15th May 2014)
- The Lovely Bones (22nd June 2014)
- My Sister's Keeper (10th July 2014)
- Persuasion (14th August 2014)
- Birdsong (27th October 2014)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (28th April 2015)
- The Scarlet Letter (31st December 2015)
- Brave New World (2nd April 2016)
- Little Women (14th July 2016)
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven (22nd July 2016)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (7th September 2016)
Try one “out of my comfort zone” exercise class(5th February 2015)- Go bungee jumping
See ten “so-called” classic films (Total: 10)- Hard Day's Night (11th July 2014)
- The Stepford Wives (13th July 2014)
- Top Hat (13th October 2014)
- It's a Wonderful Life (22nd November 2014)
- The Shop around the Corner (9th December 2014)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (21st February 2015)
- The Lady Vanishes (27th March 2015)
- I know where I'm going (22nd August 2015)
- The Sting (7th November 2015)
- Holiday Inn (17th December 2015)
- Take a surfing lesson
Give blood as frequently as possible for 6 months (started 12th January 2015)- Go skydiving
- Watch 10 Audrey Hepburn films (Total: 8)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (2nd August 2014)
- Roman Holiday (8th February 2015)
- Paris when it Sizzles (19th April 2015)
- Charade (30th May 2015)
- Funny Face (28th June 2016)
- Love in the Afternoon (20th July 2016)
- Two for the Road (19th August 2016)
- The Unforgiven (2nd September 2016)
Visit a city that I’ve never been to before(17th January 2014)Discover 10 new restaurants(Total: 10)- Bill's (27th May 2014)
- Cote (27th September 2014)
- Smack lobster (29th April 2015)
- Butch Annie's (27th June 2015)
- Wahaca (13th November 2015)
- Croma (14th November 2015)
- TNQ (15th November 2015)
- Yo! Sushi (28th November 2015)
- 1847 (18th January 2016)
- Ply (14th March 2016)
See a comedy show(14th August 2015)- Make 10 new recipes (Total: 3)
- Candy cane marshmallows (10th December 2015)
- Simnel cake (24th March 2016)
- Banana bread (14th May 2016)
- Courgette and lemon spaghetti (18th July 2016)
- Quinoa salad with tahini dressing (17th August 2016)
- Cocnut curry with prawns (18th August 2016)
- Grilled vegetables with haloumi cheese (20th August 2016)
- Take a jive/swing dance lesson
Make a dress myself(30th April 2014)Try 5 new foods(Total: 5)- Dim sum (28th September 2014)
- Lebkuchen (8th December 2014)
- Palacsinta (17th January 2015)
- Betenjel farci (16th February 2015)
- Mochi (23rd April 2015)
- Take a cocktail making class
Donate regularly to charity- Go on a hot air balloon ride
- Do a colour run
Roll my own sushi(22nd July 2016)- Learn calligraphy
- Run in a charity 10k run
- Make homemade pasta
- Organise my itunes
- Learn French
Take a cooking lesson(19th April 2015)- Sightsee on a scooter
- Visit every county in England
- Cambridgeshire (16th March 2014)
- Wiltshire (15th May 2014
- Worcestershire (26th May 2014)
- Gloucestershire(14th June 2014)
- Devon (24th September 2014)
- Lancashire (17th October 2014)
- Hampshire (24th October 2014)
- Norfolk (13th December 2014)
- Warwickshire (26th December 2014)
- Cheshire (29th December 2014)
- Oxfordshire (24th January 2015)
- Suffolk (15th February 2015)
- Yorkshire (22nd April 2015)
- Nottinghamshire (3rd May 2015)
- Lincolnshire (3rd May 2015)
- Bristol (10th April 2016)
- Tyne and Wear (5th August 2016)
- Northumberland (6th August 2016)
Attend 5 concerts- McBusted (9th May 2014)
- McBusted (!) (6th July 2014)
- McBusted (I have a problem...) (22nd March 2015)
- Busted (21st May 2016)
- Florence and the Machine (2nd July 2016)
- Ride a segway
- Renew my first aid certificate
Eat “5 a day” for a fortnight(started 23rd January 2016, completed 6th February 2016)- Send 50 letters (Total: 44)
- Ring a friend a week for 3 months
Buy personalised stationery(23rd March 2015)- Cook a 3 course meal for my family
- See the Northern Lights
Exercise 3 times a week for 3 months(started 6th April, completed 5th July 2015)Join my school's alumni association(19th June 2016)- Watch a live TV recording
Donate to a food bankWatch 5 foreign language films(Total: 5)- Amelie (7th September 2014)
- Populaire (29th February 2016)
- Barbara (22nd July 2016)
- The Kid with a Bike (20th August 2016)
- Everlasting Moments (3rd September 2016)
Learn the capital cities and locations of all countries in Europe(23rd July 2016)- Send a postcard to someone on each trip I take
- Watch all 5 best picture nominees prior to the Baftas
- Make macarons
- Attend a major sporting event/game
Complete my interail scrapbook(24th November 2015)Complete 30 day decluttering challenge(September 2015)- Go on a major guiding event/trip
Visit three museums(Total: 3, V&A, Fitzwilliam, Oliver Cromwell's House)Visit the Harry Potter studios(7th April 2014)Go to the opera(Princess Ida, 12th February 2016)- Buy a pretty bicycle
Go to bed at 10pm every night for a week(23rd July 2016)Visit 5 European countries(Total: 5)- Belgium (17th January 2014)
- Ireland (16th June 2014)
- Greece (9th August 2014)
- Hungary (16th January 2015)
- Poland (15th January 2016)
- Watch an outdoor film
- Visit the 3 peaks
Take a yoga class(5th September 2015)- Attend a horse race
- Have a horse riding lesson
- Go to the ballet
- Take a trapeze class
Write to my MP about an issue I believe in(24th October 2015)- Buy something from Chanel
Buy a “new to me” car(19th June 2014)- Visit a Guiding world centre
Take a tram somewhere(17th January 2014)Buy a big issue(23rd July 2016)Go to an art gallery that I haven’t been to(Whitworth Art Gallery, 23rd March 2015)Go to a play(A Midsummer Night's Dream, 24th July 2014)Say yes to 5 invites that I would normally say no to- Leaving party (30th August 2014)
- Bouldering (11th September 2014)
- Birthday dinner (27th May 2015)
- Westcott ball (10th June 2015)
- London (6th February 2016)
Upgrade my phone- Organise a scavenger hunt
Go swimming in the sea(15th August 2014)- Make a snowman
Get back in contact with someone (Caroline, 27th November 2014)Paint my nails once a week for 2 months(18th May 2014)Go rock climbing(11th September 2014)Start a capsule wardrobe(June 2016)Meet a celebrity(Mary Portas, 17th April 2015)- Close my social media accounts for 1 week
Visit every college in Cambridge(Total: 31)- Churchill (12th December 2014)
- Christ's (28th February 2015)
- King's (28th February 2015)
- Homerton (19th April 2015)
- Corpus Christi (25th July 2015)
- Downing (25th July 2015)
- Emmanuel (25th July 2015)
- Pembroke (25th July 2015)
- Clare Hall (8th August 2015)
- Fitzwilliam (8th August 2015)
- Murray Edwards (8th August 2015)
- Robinson (8th August 2015)
- Selwyn (8th August 2015)
- St Edmund's (8th August 2015)
- Peterhouse (9th August 2015)
- Queens' (9th August 2015)
- Wolfson (9th August 2015)
- Newnham (9th August 2015)
- Trinity (30th August 2015)
- Magdalene (8th September 2015)
- Trinity Hall (8th September 2015)
- Jesus (8th September 2015)
- Sidney Sussex (8th September 2015)
- Girton (9th September 2015)
- Gonville and Caius (11th September 2015)
- Clare (11th September 2015)
- St John's (11th September 2015)
- Hughes Hall (11th September 2015)
- Darwin (11th September 2015)
- Lucy Cavendish (11th September 2015)
- St Catharine's (11th September 2015)
- Drive a car on the "wrong" side of the road
Go punting(13th June 2014)- Visit Stonehenge
- Write a will
Knit my own pair of socks(27th February 2016)- Learn how to maintain my bike
- Learn to change a car tyre
Take photos in a photobooth(14th May 2014)- Put £10 into savings for every task accomplished, donate £5 for each task missed
