Other Info

To help with the blog, the following Tags will be used for the on-going basis:

• Completion – For when an item has been completed.
• New Item – When a new item is added to the list – this is always dated.
• Background – Where I have some background on one of the tasks
• Planning – Any comment on planned attempts
• A.O.B – Does exactly what it says on the tin!

The Rules

Obviously it would be foolish of me to head out in these endeavours without particular rules, but I quite like the idea of the Fight Club way, ‘If you know the rules, you don’t know the rules’.

Basically these rules are not hard and fast, they are a mere guide to what I should be doing:

1. The period of the challenge runs from 00.00am on the 23^rd April 2011 to 23.59 on 23^rd April 2021.
2. The numbering of the ‘Things to do’ is random and does not need to be completed in order.
3. Items can be added to the list at any time up to midnight 23/04/2019 (see 4. below), provided they are reasonable.
4. Items on the list do not have to be done, it is a guide of things I should try & do (e.g. Living abroad is not a standalone item, it impacts a lot of life!) – a 75% pass rate is what the final aim is, hence the closure of new items in the final two years to discourage altering the statistics.
5. The aim is to find 40 things to do.
6. Items will be numbered and this number cannot be changed.
7. Evidence (preferably Photographic) needs to be retained to confirm completion of the ‘Thing to do’. Independent Recorded (preferably Video) Testimony needs to be obtained where no other evidence can be obtained!

Introduction

Hello, and welcome to my new website/blog, which I have set up in a vain attempt to ensure I don’t reach middle age with any regrets for things I did not do in my ‘younger years’ / whilst I could do them. In these days heading to my 30^th birthday on 23^rd April 2011, I’m slowly getting annoyed at the viral insistence that younger (than me) people have that I am going to officially be old on said date, and will be unable to perform normal young people things, like bending over to do my shoelaces, urinating successfully and generally breathing.

I must caveat this, by highlighting that I thought I was 100% plagiarised this from the West Country Comedian Mark Watson, however, from looking through his website here, there is nothing I can see about it!

Anyway, I’ve read plenty of these books that are basically Comedy Challenges (Danny Wallace, who I am a fan of, is one member who has largely cornered / exhausted this market), but I am not doing this for any other reason than self-improvement / to try & experience new things.

So here it is, based under the working title of: ‘Making my Thirties Fun’ my bucket list of things to do before I’m 40!