The Official 60 Things To Do Before I'm 60 Blog

The Official 60 Things To Do Before I'm 60  (OSTTDBIS) list is my version of a bucket list. It is still something of a work in progress and I reserve the right to tweak, edit and add to it as I go along. There's no rush - I'm not even 50 yet so there's plenty of time. As long as I have achieved 60 personal triumphs by 17th August 2023 I'll be happy.

The current version of OSTTDBIS will follow shortly. However Thing One on the list is to start an OSTTDBIS blog so this seems like the place to start.

In no particular order, before I am 60, I want to:

1.      Keep a Bucket List blog                                                        (achieved 17 April 2013)

2.      See the Cirque du Soleil again

3.      Climb a Munro

4.      Learn to play the flute and perform  in public

5.      Write a novel

6.      Go inter-railing in Europe

7.      Walk the West Highland Way

8.      Keep chickens again

9.      Do the Moonwalk in Edinburgh and raise at least £500

10.  Visit Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island

11.  Join a choir

12.  Stay at the Hotel Levant in Llafranc, Spain

13.  Learn to hoot like an owl

14.  Finish my tapestry

15.  Run a 5km race

16.  Take a trip to the Achensee in Austria (achieved August 2013)

17.  Go ski-ing

18.  Ride in a gondola in Venice

19.  Make a patchwork quilt

20.  Buy a house

21.  Stay in a castle

22.  Make a list of 60 books to read before I am 60 (and read them)

23.  Go to the Louvre in Paris

24.  Own a pair of Dubarry boots                                      (achieved 17 August 2013)

25.  Have my graduation photo taken                                ( achieved 25 October 2012)

26.  Throw a coin into the Trevi fountain in Rome

27.  Visit the Bronte Parsonage at Haworth

28.  Have a holiday on a narrowboat

29.  Have my fortune told by a gypsy at St. Boswells

30.  Do the Four Abbeys Cycle Path

31.  Celebrate our Silver Wedding Anniversary                      (achieved 13 August 2013)

32.  Skim a stone so it bounces at least 3 times

33.  Go on a spa day with Polly and Charlotte

34.  Stay on a houseboat in Amsterdam

35.  Go to a Christmas Market in Europe

36.  Appear as an extra in a film

37.  Learn to play bridge

38.  Go to the opera

39.  Have a teppenyaki meal in Newcastle with the family

40.  Go to the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle

41.  Go on the London Eye

42.  Go to a live sporting event, preferably gymnastics

43.  Cook a roast suckling pig for a family celebration

44.  Visit the Outer Hebrides

45.  Go to New York and eat pastrami on rye at Katz’s deli

46.  Take a boat trip to the Farne Islands and see puffins

47.  Sing karaoke

48.  See a play at The Globe Theatre in London

49.  Go on a cruise through the Norwegian fjords

50.  Visit Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
 

51.  Have another tattoo

52.  Be debt free

53.  Go to Moominland in Finland with some Moomin fans (you know who you are). 

54.  Have my nose pierced (achieved 3rd July 2014)

55.  Crochet a Granny Squares blanket

56.  Watch this space

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60. Watch this space.