Added: No. 83 - Be the guest of honour at a surprise party

The List!

82 things to try and do in my 50th year...

It originally started as 50 things to celebrate 50 years but...it keeps getting bigger and I expect it will be added to! Oh well!

1. Eat a pickled egg

2. Try 10 different cocktails

3. Eat caviar

4. Go Zorbing

5. Go Hot Air Ballooning

6. Visit New Zealand

7. Go White Water Rafting

8. Walk the Thames Path

9. Visit 50 new places

10. Have a go at roof tiling

11. Stay in a lighthouse

12. Go to Chelsea Flower Show

13. Go and see Severn Bore

14. Visit Angel of the North

15. Forth Road Bridge

16. Visit Lindesfarne

17. Seattle to Carlisle railway

18. Go across an aquaduct

19. Try 10 different sausages

20. Walk from Compton Abbas Airfield across the hill

21. Visit a new IKEA

22. Try Hand Bell ringing

23. Visit a West End Show in London

24. Grow a lemon

25. Go fruit picking

26. Go on boat trip (Westminster-Hampton Court)

27. Midnight feast with sardines in ginger cake

28. See sunflowers grow in a field

29. See Northern Lights

30. Go to Maldives

31. Cruise down Nile river

32. Parachute jump

33. Weigh 11 stone

34. Visit Scilly Isles

35. Norwegian Fjord

36. Kefalonia

37. See a poppy field

38. Go through Channel Tunnel

39. Swim in an infinity pool

40. Visit all 5 continents

41. Learn modern floristry

42. Go to an Olympic event

43. Ride in a stretched limo

44. Ride in party fire engine

45. See a Gospel concert

46. Win Trivial Pursuit

47. Visit Grace Darling Musuem

48. Do a trolley dash

49. Visit Lost Gardens of Heligan

50. Be a Virtual Assistant

51. Visit Wet & Wild

52. Own a bookshop

53. Go on a Sunseeker

54. Go on a Trent class lifeboat

55. Climb rigging to the crows nest

56. Play Upwords online

57. Go to Giant's Causeway

58. Use Mr Whippy ice cream machine

59. Catch fish and cook on a beach

60. Chocolate fondue

61. Finish Times crossword

62. Work in a library

63. Own an iPhone

64. Play Caribbean steel drums

65. Learn panpipes

66. Win more than £10 on lottery

67. Watch amazing sunset

68. Ride a tandem bike

69. Go on a retreat

70. Stay in a beach house

71. See the pyramids

72. Swim in hot springs

73. Visit Ice Hotel

74. Go to Nepal/Tibet

75. Do a jigsaw bigger than 4000 pieces

76. Stay in a wigwam

77. Swim under waterfall

78. Boating in Serpentine Lake

79. Punting on Thames

80. Climb Spinnaker Tower

81. Read War & Peace

82. Read Bible

Welcome - The Big 50?

This year is going to be a good one - I celebrated my 50th birthday this year on 21 May and what better way to celebrate it than to choose 50 new things to try - except when I sat down to write them down - I came up with over 80 and the list is constantly growing.

So, sit back, and enjoy my 50 new experiences with me - hopefully this will inspire you to try something new too. I'm also hoping to record other events worth noting - if keeping this blog is slightly more successful than my diary efforts in years gone by!

This is going to be a year to remember.

Debbie