My annual tradition inspired many years ago by Hula Seventy to put together a list capturing things I'd like to do during my forty-second year before I reach forty-three *sobs at how old I'm getting*
- Practice yoga each week
- Stay at Ty Donkey in Wales
- Plant a kitchen garden
- Make a Galette des Rois
- Press our apples & make apple juice
- Runaway with the circus
- Take the youngest horse riding
- Visit my aunty's grave even though I find it hard
- Make a scarecrow
- Weave a blanket
- Take the boys ice skating
- Learn to identify umbellifers
- Make sloe gin
- Swim under a Welsh waterfall
- Organise an outdoor cinema night
- Plant a bean tipi
- Visit Harp Cottage in Wales
- Make a toy whale out of an old pair of jeans
- Catch a snowflake
- Learn to play the ukelele
- Stargaze
- Make an owl box from an old tea chest
- Go paddleboarding
- Grow dark dahlias
- Film a series of campfire conversations with people that inspire me
- Rejoin the library and read more books
- Make a gingerbread house
- Carve a wooden spoon
- Declutter the house properly!
- Enjoy my edible seed collection from The New Almanac
- Go camping in the bell tent
- Read Romeo & Juliet with my eldest and hope I remember it from my schooldays and can impart some wisdom (may have to resort to Baz Lurhmanns film)
- Visit the Pig Hotel & have a treatment in the potting shed
- Watch the final series of Mad Men
- Volunteer my time for a good cause
- Make an honesty shop
- Get away from it all at Top of Lane Cottage
- Bake a loaf of bread each week
- Illustrate some of our favourite walks
- Go for an adventure on a steam train
- Make snow lollies
- Don't look back, keep moving forwards