Bucket List
A thoughtful collection of things I want to do and see in this precious gift of a lifetime…
Bucket List Ticks so Far:
1.) Skydive
2.) Fall
In Love
3.) Hot
Airballoon Ride at Bristol International Balloon festival
4.) Grow
pumpkins (ref: Cinderella)
5.) Go
to the theatre
6.) Ride
on a Jet-ski
7.) Visit
a Safari Park
8.) Attend
a Camping weekend
9.) Go
Abroad for the first time
10.)
Host a Christmas Party
11.)
Lose Virginity (Spring 2013)
12.)
Horse Riding
13.)
Graduate University
14.)
Publish Something
15.)
Go Clubbing
16.)
Vote (In honour of the suffragettes)
17.)
Skim a Rock
18.)
Cut my hair boy-short
19.)
Solve the Labyrinth (Longleat Hedge Maze)
20.)
Quit a miserable job
21.)
Raise money for charity
22.)
Be a model for a day
23.)
Ride on the back of a motorbike
24.)
Visit the Bronte Museum, Haworth,
Yorkshire
25.)
Drink in Starbucks
26.)
Walk over Clent Hills
27.)
Be a Superhero for a day
28.)
Rock Wall climbing
29.)
Make an Alien feel Welcome on Earth
30.)
Visit the Eden Project, Cornwall
31.)
Complete a Go Ape-course
32.)
Be a tourist in your own city
33.)
Visit a Jazz bar and listen to live music
34.)
Visit the Frankfurt Christmas Market in
Birmingham (2013-First time)
35.)
Visit Harry Potter Studios in London
36.)
Go to a 'gig'.
-Saw Reverand and the Makers live in a Coventry bar.
37.)
Visit Warhammer world in Nottingham
38.)
Eat at a Michelin star restaurant (Purnell’s)
39.)
Visit Kenilworth Castle
40.)
Visit Birmingham Botanical Gardens
41.)
Eat at a Food Festival (I’m counting
Digbeth Dining Club for this one-incredible)
42.)
Try to survive the zombie apocalypse (2.8
hours later-I died)
43.)
See really blue water, not grey
44.)
Eat in an outdoor restaurant at night
45.)
Build a Time Machine
46.)
Travel back in Time-to 1940’s
47.)
Visit Black Country Museum
48.)
Go to Comic Con in costume
49.)
Watch a sunrise and sunset in the same day
50.)
Travel in a boat
51.) Move out of parents
52.) Visit The Lake district
53.) Ride a steam train
54.) Travel Rome
55.) Climb a volcano! -POMPEII, mount V.
56.) Start a family of my own by having a baby! My son, Lincoln James Jones born 13/04/2018
57.) Visit Warwick castle
58.) Travel London-tourist style
59.) Natural history museum UK
The Full List:
1.)
Skydive
2.)
Be in a Movie
3.)
Fall
in Love
4.)
Send a
message in a bottle (Reference: Message in a Bottle)
5.)
Move out of
Parent’s house
6.)
Grow
Pumpkins, (Reference: because Cinderella had pumpkins)
7.)
Grow an Apple
Tree
8.)
Enter a
bakery competition and win something
9.)
Join the W.I
(Women’s institutional)
10.)
Ride
in a Hot Air Balloon at Bristol International Balloon Festival
11.)
Go to
the theatre (Favourite to date: Dirty Dancing)
12.)
Go on
a Jet Ski
13.)
Scuba Dive
(General)
14.) Go to a safari park
15.)
Camping
weekend-Northampton car show, it was freezing, our tent was miniature, I had
to pee outside and there were people passing by...that's it! I'm never
going camping again. 2014
16.)
Go
Abroad for the first time. (Malta September 2015)
17.)
Cook an
excellent Christmas dinner
18.)
Host a Christmas Party
19.)
Visit Stone
Henge
20.)
Helicopter
Ride over the Grand Canyon
21.)
Have my
fortune told
22.) Lose Virginity 'Spring 2013'
23.) Horse Riding
24.)
Get Married
25.)
Get a House
26.)
Get a Dog
27.)
Learn to Drive
28.) Graduate University
29.) Publish something
30.)
Drive/Ride
down Route 66
31.)
Travel
through United States of America, in a campervan…Retirement Holiday
32.)
Make a
mini-movie
33.)
Spend Christmas
in Newyork-Central Park, Rockefeller centre, Natural History Museum.
34.)
Visit the Empire
Estate Building (Reference: An Affair to Remember and Sleepless in Seattle)
35.)
Hail a Yellow
Cab
36.)
Eat a Hotdog/corndog/pretzel
on the streets of Newyork
37.)
Eat Breakfast
at Tiffney’s jewellery store (Reference: Audrey Hepburn)
38.)
Photo in the
Plaza Hotel
39.) Go Clubbing
40.)
Finish my novel (Grace)
41.)
Visit the Yorkshire
Dales
42.)
Visit London
(Window shopping, Big Ben, London Eye, Buckingham Palace, crown jewels)
43.)
Visit the Natural
History Museum UK
44.)
Vote.
(In honour of the suffragettes who fought for women’s right to vote)
45.)
Visit the White
Cliffs of Dover
46.)
“Sit on the
Dock of a Bay, wasting time” (Reference: Otis Redding song)
47.)
Become a
mother
48.)
Climb a few
mountains
49.)
Skim a
rock (Yaaaayyyy I did it,
twice!! Jones showed me :-P )
50.) Cut my hair very short
51.)
See the stars
from the desert
52.)
Solve
the Labyrinth (Longleat Hedge maze)
53.)
Visit Hever
castle, Kent (Home of Anne Boelyn)
54.)
Quit
a miserable job (Screw those guys!)
55.)
Take
part in raising money for Charity
56.)
Escape to the
country to live permanently one day
57.)
Grow and
maintain a vegetable patch
58.)
Visit Scotland-Lochness
Lake
59.)
Be a
model for a day
60.)
Ride
on the back of a motorbike
61.)
Visit
the Brontë museum, Haworth, North Yorkshire (Reference: Charlotte and Emily
Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre)
62.) Drink in Starbucks
63.) Walk over Clent Hills
64.)
Go Paragliding
65.)
Learn how to
make chocolate
66.)
Take a barge
trip
67.)
Travel by boat
68.)
Go on a Nordic
cruise and see the Northern Lights (Plan 2026)
69.)
Canoe down a
river
70.)
Camping trip
around Ireland, (Galway, Dublin, Cork, in a triangle)
71.)
Visit Wicklowe
national park, Ireland (Reference: P.S I Love You
72.)
Hadrian’s wall
73.)
The lizard
peninsula, Cornwall
74.)
Ullwater and
place fell, lake district
75.)
Malvern hills
76.)
Fitzwilliam
museum
77.)
Take
my future children to Disney land
78.)
Visit Windsor
castle
79.) Be a Superhero for a day
80.)
Do another
skydive, but with somebody this time
81.)
Take a scenic
train journey
82.)
Go on a steam
train
83.)
Attend a
Masquerade Ball
84.) Rock wall Climbing
85.)
Visit Land’s
End, Cornwall
86.)
Visit
Clovelly, Devon
87.)
Visit the
Lake District, Cumbria
88.) Make an Alien feel welcome on Earth
89.)
Eden
project-amazing, amazing ice cream, beautiful stay at Boscundle Manor
90.)
Visit Agatha
Christie Home: Greenway
91.)
Visit
Pemberley (Reference: Pride and Prejudice) Chatsworth House
92.)
Do a spa day
and have a massage
93.)
Learn to Swim
94.)
Have photo
taken in a poppy field to remember the Fallen Soliders.
95.)
Visit The
lost gardens of Heligan
96.) Compete a Go Ape course
97.)
Visit Blenheim
palace
98.)
Visit
Highclere Castle (Reference: Downton Abbey)
99.)
Visit Trentham
estate and gardens
100.)
Be a
tourist in your own city -Birmingham:
Jewellery quarter, Rag market, Bullring, Library, Art museum, Town hall,
Symphony hall, Canal walk, Broadstreet
101.)
Watch
a sunrise and sunset in the same day
102.)
Learn a magic
trick
103.)
Give Blood
104.)
Send a care
package
105.)
Have a fun
photo with a bunch of balloons
106.)
Make a memory
quilt
107.)
Leave an
inspirational message on a sticky note in a bathroom/public place
108.)
Have a proper
picnic: that's with picnic cutlery, sandwiches and blanket
109.)
Start a
retirement fund
110.)
Write a
letter to future self and open ten years later.
111.)
Build and fly
a kite (Reference: Mary Poppins)
112.)
Build a
sandcastle as an adult
113.)
Eat Fish and
Chips by the seaside
114.)
Visit Giants
Causeway
115.)
Visit 'The
Prisoner' village in Portmeirion, Wales (Reference: The Prisoner)
116.)
See a
traditional Christmas pantomime
117.)
Try a deep
fried mars bar, because seriously! That is some crazy sounding stuff!
118.)
Go to a
Jazz Bar
119.)
Visit Blackpool
120.)
Go to
the Frankfurt Christmas Market in Birmingham 2013-first time
121.)
Visit
Harry Potter Studios-London
122.)
Visit Harry
Potter World-Florida
123.)
Have a photo
by a lighthouse
124.)
Go in Cage of
Death in Australia
125.)
Go to
a 'gig'. -Saw Reverand and the Makers live in a Coventry bar.
126.)
Start my own
business
127.)
Visit
War hammer World-Nottingham
128.)
Get super fit
and learn to love my body.
129.)
Build a GUY
and burn him on Bonfire night with Jones
130.)
Pick up a
bucket of sidewalk chalk and create a masterpiece on the sidewalk at a local
park. Graffiti that washes away!
131.)
Attend a posh
Christmas/Newyear party
132.)
Eat
at a Michelin Star Restaurant-(Purnell's Birmingham)
133.)
Hold a
"Just Because" Party, for no particular reason
134.)
Visit
Kenilworth Castle
135.)
Visit
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
136.)
Visit a food festival (Not a lot beats
Friday nights at Digbeth Dining Club)
137.)
Try
to survive the zombie apocalypse
138.)
See a waterfall
139.)
Girl with a Pearl Earring-Maurit Shuis, South Holland
140.)
Go Skinny
Dipping
141.)
Nude Beach-Maybe
142.)
See
really Blue water not grey-Blue Lagoon, Comino island, Malta
143.)
Eat
in a restaurant, outdoors at night time-Ramla Bay, Malta
144.)
Build a time machine
145.)
Travel back in time
146.)
See the
dinosaurs
147.)
Time
Travel to World War 2-1940's
148.)
Time travel
to the Regency Era and be Jane Austen for a day
149.)
Time Travel
back to the Tudor Times
150.)
Visit the 1960's-Austin
Powers baby!
151.)
Cowboy times,
wild, wild west
152.)
Thailand
153.)
Istanbul,
Turkey
154.)
St
Petersburg, Russia
155.)
Santorini, Greece
156.)
Glacier National Park, Motana
157.)
Africa
158.)
Iceland
159.)
Safari in Tanzania
160.)
Hobbiton in New Zealand
161.)
Pastries in
Paris-Eiffel Tower, Cathedral of Notre Dame, The Lourve-Mona Lisa
162.)
South of
France
163.)
Lourve
Pyramid-France
164.)
Go to Comic Con -in full costume
165.)
Go in a shark
tank
166.)
Visit Forest
of Dean (Reference: Harry Potter last movies)
167.)
See Luke Bryan live
168.)
Take the
waters in Bath, Therma Spa, visit Jane Austen Museum, Bath. (Reference: Jane
Austen)
169.)
Go on a Murder
Mystery weekend (Reference: Agatha Chrisitie, Poirot, Marple)
170.)
Black
Country Museum
171.)
Hold a murder
mystery party for Halloween!
172.)
India
173.)
Jamaica
174.)
Van Gogh
Museum-Amsterdam
175.)
Sistine
Chapel, Vatican City, The Vatican Museums, The Colosseum-Piazza del Colosseo,
Trevil Fountain, have photo taken by the mouth of truth-Rome (Audrey Hepburn,
Roman Holiday)
176.) zip wire over Niagara falls