50 things before i'm 50

 Today 3rd January 2023 i turn 41 OMG this is not possible!!! Well sadly yes it is as 41 years ago today i arrived into this world.

I have decided to do something different and have given myself 9years to do it in. That is to complete 50 different tasks before i turn 50. Some are going to be easy others are going to be hard and other are going to cost money so i will struggle with them. I am going to add the list below and update as i go.

If they are make lists of take photos i will save them all to a file and just add a number beside it on here. I am going to gave to change them to red once done and write done at the end as i can't strikethough on here.

50 things to do before I’m 50

Before I turn 50 in 2032 I want to complete all of the following things 

1. Write a letter to myself for my 50th birthday and open it on that day.

2. see the Lion King in London

3. See Wicked in London

4. Re-visit Camden market and Camden

5. Get free tickets to a concert (somehow!) *got to ABBA in Whitehaven Aug 2023

6. Spa day/weekend

7. Go to Charnmouth and/or Lyme Regis fossil hunting

8. Take 50 photos with 50 different people I know (8/50 done)

9. Read 50 books (3/50 done)

10. Have a real Christmas tree

11. Visit the dolphins in Scotland

12. See Bryan Adams again

13. Have a go at Axe throwing *did aug 2023

14. Go to the Big Butterfly world in Stockton

15. Get a blue Peter Badge *CANT AS AN ADULT

16. Hold a monkey/marmoset/cotton top

17. Visit monkey world in Devon

18. Link the Whitehaven Lackey Family to my tree *did dec 2023

19. Attend a viking re-enactment battle

20. Attend a kite festival (Lytham St Annes 8th sept 2024)

21. Pick pumpkins from a farm

22. Get my phto with 50 different “welcome to ……” place signs

23. Send a message in a bottle and see if get a reply

24. Attend 5 international scout camps (all different if possible) (1/5 done)

25. Try foods from a different country not tried before *did jan 2024

26. Attend a Christmas market and have hot mulled wine

27. Attend the Fire Festival linked to Mabon in Scotland

28. Leave a random act of kindness note in a book or on food

29. Go back to Peterborough Beer Festival *did Aug 2023

30. Visit Merlins Cave in Cornwall *did oct 2023

31. Eat proper Cornish ice-cream in Cornwall *did oct 2023

32. Visit the Witchcraft museum in Cornwall *did oct 2023

33. See a solar eclipse

34. Spit roast a chicken on an open fire *did aug 2023

35. Watch 50 different movies (21/50 done)

36. Go to Threlkeld mining museum

37. Visit Muncaster Castle *did feb 2023

38. Visit china town Manchester and eat in an all can eat buffet *did jan 2024

39. Attend the Winter Droving in Penrith *did nov 2023

40. Find a real crystal on a beach *did oct 2023

41. Eat fish & chips at the beach but not at home *did oct 2023 Cornwall

42. Try a new flavour ice-cream *did may 2023 bubblegum

43. Go to the theatre/cinema 50 times (6/50 done)

44. Play crazy golf at 50 different locations (2/50 done)

45. Swim in an outdoor pool *did june 2023

46. Try glass blowing or similar

47. Visit 50 different museums (8/50 done)

48. Use a hot tub or get own *did 2023

49. Campfire on the beach *did aig 2023

50. Tattoo linked to being 50

Encase I can’t do any of the above I have a reserve list of things

51. Make a playlist of 50 no1 songs from date of birth *did 2023

52. Attend a festival (music/light/Chinese new year etc)

53. Visit the caves in yorkshire

54. Wine tasting

55. Visit to a brewery

56. Visit a waterfall

57. Meet someone famous

58. Wreck it room

59. Visit Harry Potter world again

60. Sort the garden out so accessible and easy to maintain (started 2023)

61. Watch a drag show

62. Swim with Dolphins

63. Re-visit Seaham beach and the blast and find decent coloured sea glass

64. Drink coffee in 50 different shops/locations (12/50 done)

65. See cirque de solei

66. Visit i-fly Manchester

67. Make the books linked to covid, photo a day etc and book for Jay

68. Visit Alnwick castle where Harry Potter was filmed *did dec 2023

69. Make this into a book to keep and add all of the images and facts etc

PLUS a few I would love to do but don’t think will happen

70. Get K to be mine 

71. Visit Dawn in Florence SC

72. Visit Cathie in West Virginia

73. Visit Malta

74. See the Northern Lights (ideally in Norway)

75. Visit Flanders Field as so many ancestors died there

76. Go to Saintfield in Ireland as ancestors from there

77. Save £50 a year from starting this challenge

78. Save £5 per completed task on here

79. Qualification in Genealogy

80. Get to one of the fairy pools in the lake district

81. Clear all of the clutter and junk from the house that isn’t needed

82. Travel 1st class (like I can afford that!) *did jan 2024 free upgrade WOOHOO!

YES i know there are 80+ things on my list but i also know some of them may not actually happen, so i have added extras!!!

***UPDATE*** for some reason this post didn't get publish back in 2023, i have found it today sat in drafts. SO i have updated the bits and hopefully now it posts.

By Jan 2024 i have managed to do 21 of these!