So - the list is here...

Ok - so here it is, "The List". Not Schindler's, coz that would be just wrong and I am clearly not that much of a hero. I have spent the past month or so thinking about these things to do before I hit my milestone birthday next year and I have gone back and forth and back again and finally decided all the below. I've tried to make them as realistic and achievable as possible - Kirsty Mallows and her lessons on SMART objectives have clearly stood me in good stead - and focussed on a mixture of things that I have been meaning to do, things I would like to do and a couple of things that I don't really want to do have crept in here and one or two may not even be possible. I issue a caveat that this is not definitive. I exercise my right to veto two items throughout the year. In return for your indulgence, I offer you all the chance to suggest the last and final thing that I do. Suggestions gratefully received and considered. I appoint my sister Noelle as my co-judge. We are like Simon and Danni reunited. I won't say who is who...

I have 364 days to go, 39 things to do (I'm now blogging) of 1 I have no idea what.

Let the fun begin!!!

1. 1.     Buy and drink very expensive (>£80 per bottle) wine (with my sister, Noelle)
   2.     Cook something I've never cooked before
   3.     Eat something I've never eaten before
   4.     Eat something I've never eaten before - and won't eat again
   5.     Go to the top of the Shard
   6.     Meet Nigella Lawson
   7.     Meet someone (else) famous
   8.     Meet an international sports star
   9.     Do some kind of cooking course
   10. Go somewhere in the UK I've never been before
   11. Go somewhere abroad I've never been before
   12. Get my teeth whitened
   13. Have a mani-pedi
   14. Go (back) to Chez Bruce
   15. Apply for my driving license
   16. Learn to drive
   17. Read a modern classic
   18. Read a classic
   19. Take a photography course
   20. Run a race - minimum 10k
   21. Complete my series of Dynasty
   22. Play tennis again
   23. Lose a stone (in weight, not out of my pocket)
   24. Blog?
   25. Go back to Poros
   26. Plan my 40th birthday
   27. Take swimming lessons
   28. Don't change my job
   29. Bake more bread
   30. Meet a relative I haven't met before
   31. Go to Wimbledon for tennis
   32. Do something for charity
   33. Decide what's my 'Pine Cone' - and tell everyone.
   34. Have a 'Gone with the wind' viewing
   35. Go to the National Portrait Gallery every weekend out of three.
   36. Put 'more' of my photos online
   37. Learn to knit
   38. Go to Walsh Island again
   39. Visit Josephine Baker (the cat)
   40. TBD by suggestions by people here