I’ve heard quiet a few people this year talk about having a bucket list and until the other day I just had a list of things I would like to do.  The more I think about these the more I realise this is my Bucket List.  Everyone’s bucket list will be different from the extreme to the bizarre to the simple, but that is what makes each of our bucket lists as individual as we are.  I’ve approached mine in a SMART way.  I’ve listed things that I want to do that are achievable, whether in a month, a year or ten years. Someone asked me, when I mentioned about my bucket list, how many am I looking to achieve.  I hope to get through all of them and even add more.  I’d like to think I’ll aim for two to four a year, but who knows what life will bring my way as I start to work through having new experience and adventures.

Food

• Eat at The Wolseley
• Eat at a Michelin starred restaurant
• Attend a cookery school to learn about seasoning
• Take part in a secret supper club
• Grow my own vegetables
• Learn to make jam using my Grandma’s jam kettle
• Attend a cookery school in Paris
• Attend a cookery school in Italy

Life

• Write a book
• Spend a week at a retreat
• Live in a cottage
• Be Marilyn for a day
• Go to Wimbledon and visit centre court
• Watch the sun go down and rise in one day
• Be the star of my own romcom
• Start my own business
• Add a lock to lovers bridge in Paris

Travel

• Take a journey on the Orient Express
• Drive coast to coast via Route 66
• Take a big travel trip by myself
• Life like a local in Paris
• Spend Christmas in America
• Spend St Patrick’s Day in Ireland
• Explore Canada and take a train through the Rockies
• Explore parts of Ireland where my relatives come from
• Visit New Orleans for the Jazz
• Visit Scotland
• Visit New Zealand
• See the Northern Lights
• Take a trip on a gondola in Venice
• Stay on a Texan ranch
• Visit Yellow Stone national park
• Holiday on a paradise island
• Spend New Years Eve in Times Square
• Be invited on a trip without knowing the destination

Style

• Buy a vintage 1950’s dress
• Have a dress made for me
• Own a pair of Manolo Blahniks
• Own a Chanel handbag

It’s only when you sit back and make these kinds of lists that you see how much you actually have achieved and what wonderful memories are made which can be cherished for a lifetime.

 

Have you got a bucket list?  I’d love to know what’s on it