The 'One Day' List
(in no particular order, except the top and bottom ones are the most important)
1) go into the wild
2) be able to recite ‘if’ by Rudyard Kipling off by heart
3) see all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas
4) have a Liverpool season ticket
5) meet a member of the royal family
6) sit on a hay bale
7) throw a ‘sound of music’ party
8) be bi-lingual
9) skinny dip
10) be a singer in a band
11) understand the rules of every sport
12) ride a horse well
13) go to hogmanay
14) be kissed in the street by a total stranger
15) have my portrait painted
16) have something published
17) perform a burlesque routine
18) own a VW camper van
19) live in a foreign country
20) dye my hair a really wacky colour
21) go on a protest rally
22) jump into a lake fully clothed
23) photograph a man in a bowler hat
24) design a dress
25) learn how to waltz
26) ice skate on a frozen pond
27) live in a lighthouse
28) be able to ‘whisky taste’
29) read all the Charles Dickens novels
30) be able to light a fire using only sticks
31) to play the piano to a grade 8 standard
32) bathe in a hot spring
33) do the 'Blackpool Thing'
34) canoe the fjords of Norway
35) make my own wine
36) have sex in a storm
37) buy a boat
38) meet my lover off a train
39) buy one of those wacky hats in Harvey nicks
40) go to Wimbledon
41) visit all the main Scottish islands
42) be a society girl like Holly Golightly
43) be able to play poker…then play strip poker!
44) camp out on a beach in the snow
45) tell someone what I really think of them
46) go carol singing
47) know all the kings and queens of England in chronological order
48) belong to a secret organisation
49) run through a cornfield barefoot
50) understand life, why we are here, and be at peace with myself.
1) go into the wild
2) be able to recite ‘if’ by Rudyard Kipling off by heart
3) see all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas
4) have a Liverpool season ticket
5) meet a member of the royal family
6) sit on a hay bale
7) throw a ‘sound of music’ party
8) be bi-lingual
9) skinny dip
10) be a singer in a band
11) understand the rules of every sport
12) ride a horse well
13) go to hogmanay
14) be kissed in the street by a total stranger
15) have my portrait painted
16) have something published
17) perform a burlesque routine
18) own a VW camper van
19) live in a foreign country
20) dye my hair a really wacky colour
21) go on a protest rally
22) jump into a lake fully clothed
23) photograph a man in a bowler hat
24) design a dress
25) learn how to waltz
26) ice skate on a frozen pond
27) live in a lighthouse
28) be able to ‘whisky taste’
29) read all the Charles Dickens novels
30) be able to light a fire using only sticks
31) to play the piano to a grade 8 standard
32) bathe in a hot spring
33) do the 'Blackpool Thing'
34) canoe the fjords of Norway
35) make my own wine
36) have sex in a storm
37) buy a boat
38) meet my lover off a train
39) buy one of those wacky hats in Harvey nicks
40) go to Wimbledon
41) visit all the main Scottish islands
42) be a society girl like Holly Golightly
43) be able to play poker…then play strip poker!
44) camp out on a beach in the snow
45) tell someone what I really think of them
46) go carol singing
47) know all the kings and queens of England in chronological order
48) belong to a secret organisation
49) run through a cornfield barefoot
50) understand life, why we are here, and be at peace with myself.