Happy Spring!

Wow, I do like to take long breaks from this blog, don't I? Well now Spring is here and the weather is looking slightly more pleasant I've decided to come out of hibernation and set myself a blogging challenge. One of my favourite ways to waste time is on the Buzzfeed website, and the other day I came across an article with a bucket list that Ask Jeeves had compiled from a survey of 1000 Brits. Who knew Ask Jeeves was still going?! Anyway I've decided to see how many of these I can complete in the next 12 months. This is to get me in the habit of blogging more often, and perhaps more importantly make me move away from my sofa from time to time! There are 50 tasks and I hope to get through at least half of them. Unfortunately I won't be able to complete them all in a year as I had originally hoped as some, like 'Go to Glastonbury Festival' and 'Visit Stonehenge on the longest day of the year' happen on the same day, but who knows I might enjoy this so much I keep going until I've done them all, time limit be damned!

So here are the rules;

1. If I complete one on the list I must blog about it.

2. If I have done it before today it doesn't matter, I need to do it again and blog about it.

3. Look for deals! I want to do this cheaply so I'll use deals and vouchers, where ever possible.

4. It doesn't matter if I'm not interested in it (I'm looking at you cricket test match), I need to try new things so if it's on the list I need to make an effort and do it!

5. I have 12 months to try and get through as many as possible!

And that's pretty much it.

So, fanfare please, here is the Top 50 to do list for Brits;

1. Eat fish and chips on a seaside pier
2. See whales off Wales
3. Go to a night at the Proms at the Albert Hall
4. Visit Giant’s Causeway
5. Have a picnic at an open air concert
6. Go up in the London Eye
7. Travel Scotland’s West Coast by rail
8. Watch a Shakespeare play in Stratford-upon-Avon
9. Dine in a Gordon Ramsay restaurant
10. Go to a British Grand Prix
11. See inside the Houses of Parliament
12. Get the Ffestiniog railway in Snowdonia
13. Go to Glastonbury festival
14. Hold the FA Cup in your hands
15. Take in the view from the top of the Shard
16. Be at Stonehenge on longest day of the year
17. See the Trooping the Colour
18. Go to a cricket test match
19. Visit ‘The Prisoner’ village in Portmeirion, Wales
20. Have tea at Betty’s tearooms, Harrogate
21. See a traditional Christmas pantomime
22. Watch a British player at Wimbledon
23. Do a ‘Wainwright’ walk in the Lake District
24. Drive round Brands Hatch motor racing circuit in Kent
25. Visit a whisky distillery
26. Go to a Six Nations rugby match
27. Go on a Jack the Ripper guided walk in London’s East End
28. Have a pint in the Rovers Return, the fictional pub in ITV’s Coronation Street
29. See Lake Windermere by boat
30. Go on a historic London pub tour
31. Experience the Notting Hill Carnival
32. Try a deep fried Mars Bar
33. See the fireball ceremony at Stonehaven, Scotland, on New Year’s Eve
34. Sail round the Isle of Wight
35. Attend the Grand National, Guineas and Gold Cup horse races
36. Go to a World Darts Final
37. Take a selfie at both John O’Groats and Land’s End
38. Take a ferry across the Mersey
39. Climb Ben Nevis
40. See Tower Bridge raised
41. Visit Borough food market, London
42. Eat Haggis on Burns Night, in Scotland
43. See Morris Dancers at a country pub
44. See the Christmas Lights on Oxford Street
45. Be at a recording of X-Factor or Britain’s Got Talent
46. See Blackpool Illuminations
47. Watch a boxset of Only Fools and Horses
48. Watch the Boat Race
49. Attend first day of Harrods sale
50. Watch the London Marathon live

You can find the original buzzfeed article here.

So wish me luck, and until I have completed one of these tasks and can blog about it, here is a picture of a lemur.