I'm doing 29 things
This is so not going to happen!!
Tiggerlet's Life List
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1. go to india and be blessed by an elephant
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2. learn to make the perfect chicken salad
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3. improve my memory
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4. walk in high heels
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5. Do a sky dive
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6. Be more tolerant
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7. I want to meet Tony Benn
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8. go to a literature festival
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9. release stress
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10. be at my ideal weight for my graduation date in 2011
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11. swim the channel for my 50th birthday
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12. I want to have a Phd when I'm 50
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13. I want to get my academic work published
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14. learn Latin
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15. I want to firewalk
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16. Take photographs every day, as a means of recording my life
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17. be brilliant at just one thing, or two
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18. have more self confidence
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19. drop another couple of dress sizes
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20. learn to drive
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21. write
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22. plant a herb garden
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23. Read all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets
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24. write letters
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25. I want to be a teacher
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26. I want to learn to repair and bind old books
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27. go to florence
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28. extend my network of friends
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29. I want to be well read
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How I did it
It made me
Pleased with myself 
How I did it: I got a place at the University of Birmingham, then I just HAD to find somewhere for me and my 3 kids to live. That wasn't the easiest thing, but if you want something enough the world provides it. I saw a house advertised on the university property site - it specifed post grad students and I'm an undergrad - but not to be deterred I nagged the landlord and sure enough here I am. Can't say it's the easiest thing I ever did. But then again… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Well, there it is done!!
First class honours degree in Medieval and Modern History. I wanted to get it by the time I was 50, and I’m now 45.
So, next goal is to get a Phd before I’m 50!
This was a truly amazing experience, and really very well worth it. I can’t tell you how fantastic it felt seeing that result!!
Do it!!
One of the reasons I went to university was to expand my knowledge and be better read. Hmm. I’m become well read in history, my subject. But there’s no time to read anything else!! My plan is to read one chapter a day from books that aren’t part of any of my reading lists – novels, autobiographies, that sort of thing.
So yesterday, full of determination, I go into Waterstones to buy ‘a book’. It felt a little like a guilty pleasure, especially as it was the store on campus. The book I got – The Secret History of Georgian London by Dan Cruikshank. Well, it isn’t on any of my reading lists, so it’s a start I guess….
