40 before 40

Having recently entered a new decade of my life, I wanted to get some targets down on paper – and you know I love a good target! I’ve come up with forty things I’d like to do, achieve or develop before I am 40. Some are already planned, some are underway, some may not happen and one or two are definitely open to interpretation.

I’m aiming to write about these things as and when they happen, if they do. So here we go, forty before forty!

Expand our family
Solve a rubix cube
Go to a rock concert with Nathan
Holiday in Cromer with Nathan and Sophia (preferably during carnival week)
Do a course in nail beauty (this is not as random as it may seem, it’s to do with wanting to offer pedicures on Ash Wednesday!)
Read Harry Potter to Sophia
Knit socks for all my close family
Preach in a Cathedral
Learn to make macrame rainbows
Learn to crochet
Lay on hands at a Priesting
Take Sophia to Pets Corner near Retford (a favourite place for me growing up)
Knit myself a jumper
Publish something (not just on RevPoppy blog)
Run a half marathon (maybe even a full one!)
Visit Highclare Castle
Do a baptism by full immersion
Go to a Broadway diner
Sing solo in public again
Bake a cake with Sophia
Get on the property ladder
Complete all the jigsaws currently in my house
Visit St George’s to see where the Queen is buried
Reach 100K views on RevPoppy
Sand down and varnish all the dining table chairs
Read Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey books
Go to the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool
Go to an open air cinema
Make pasta from scratch
Be on a podcast
Become a Spiritual Director
Go to Disneyland with Sophia & Nathan
Buy a car which is more environmentally friendly
Start a new worshipping community of some description
Volunteer at Greenbelt
Get my bike fixed and cycle to church
De-clutter every draw, cupboard and box in our house (I’ve been inspired by Stacey Solomon’s Sort Your Life Out recently and I’d love to give it a go!)
Become trained in mental health First Aid
Go on a canal barge holiday
Do Race For Life or donate my hair to charity again

As you can see, some are easily done and some are much bigger goals! To get them all done, on average, I’ll need to do one every three months. As always, do read along and join me on the journey!