Here We Go

OK, fairly scary, this.  My first ever blog post.  Why am I doing this?

Well, at the end of 2012 I'm going to turn 50.  I know it's only a number etc etc but I'm JUST NOT READY.  I've decided that if the Queen can have a whole year of hoopla, so can I, so stuff the Jubilee and welcome to my Golden Year of Celebration.  Broadly, I would like to do 50 things this year that I've always wanted to do but never (or rarely) have.  I don't have unlimited cash or holidays so they don't have to be big, just things to enjoy.

One tiny problem - I'm a lazy, feckless slattern who finds it easier to lie on the sofa than to get off my arse and do stuff.  It's easy to sit here at a time of New Year Resolutions and confidently commit to a load of stuff that in practice never happens. SO, I reckon that telling everyone and putting it in writing will mean that the pressure will be maintained - the combination of laziness AND living alone means that there's often limited motivation going on.

I would love see as many friends as possible through the year and do some of the things with them - again, making the effort to meet up has often been beyond me.

So that's it, really - it's all me, me, me but this year I don't care - come December I don't want to be saying (yet again) that I wish I'd done this, that or the other.  (Especially the other.)

Some ideas so far:

Walk some of Shakespeare's Way
See an unspecified number of birds I've not seen before
Narrowboat weekend
Walk from Padstow to Fowey
Drive a steam engine
Go in a biplane
Do an abseil

Let the Mid-life Crisis begin!