travelmickey

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travelmickey's Life List

  1. 1. Visit 30 countries before I am 30
    11 entries . 28 cheers
    20 people
  2. 2. Say 'yes' to something at least once a day
    3 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  3. 3. Milk a cow
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    494 people
  4. 4. Catch a fish and eat it
    1 cheer
    13 people
  5. 5. Make a meal only from things I've grown in my garden
    3 entries . 4 cheers
    1 person
  6. 6. Watch Channel 4's 100 greatest films
    16 entries . 9 cheers
    10 people
  7. 7. Read the Big Read's 100 greatest books
    45 entries . 13 cheers
    22 people
  8. 8. Get an allotment
    1 entry
    17 people
  9. 9. Learn to use my sewing machine
    1 entry
    56 people
  10. 10. Weigh under ten stone
    4 entries . 5 cheers
    3 people
  11. 11. Find a Bookcrossing book
    2 entries . 7 cheers
    28 people
  12. 12. Donate blood
    1 entry . 17 cheers
    2,478 people
  13. 13. Take 52 amazing photographs this year
    4 entries . 12 cheers
    6 people
  14. 14. Get a travel article published
    7 cheers
    2 people
  15. 15. Own my own home
    4 entries . 8 cheers
    1,324 people
  16. 16. Learn how to bookbind
    9 cheers
    38 people
  17. 17. paint a picture
    3 entries . 12 cheers
    480 people
  18. 18. Stay in the ice hotel
    2 entries . 25 cheers
    40 people
  19. 19. Get a byline in The Guardian
    2 entries . 4 cheers
    1 person
  20. 20. Visit every continent
    3 entries . 10 cheers
    1,530 people
  21. 21. bungee jump
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    3,318 people
  22. 22. Cruise the Nile in a felluca
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    3 people
  23. 23. write a novel and get it published
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    324 people
  24. 24. make a documentary film
    4 entries . 13 cheers
    542 people
  25. 25. Drive around Europe in a VW campervan
    2 entries . 20 cheers
    12 people
  26. 26. Run the New York Marathon
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    78 people
  27. 27. Walk the Santiago pilgrimage trail
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    8 people
  28. 28. visit the Taj Mahal
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    155 people
  29. 29. see the northern lights
    4 entries . 19 cheers
    16,413 people
  30. 30. see the pyramids in Egypt
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    229 people
  31. 31. Climb a live volcano
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    5 people
  32. 32. Go to Dharamsala and meet the Dalai Lama
    3 entries . 9 cheers
    11 people
  33. 33. go to Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    56 people
  34. 34. Sing karaoke and eat sushi in Japan
    4 entries . 10 cheers
    2 people
  35. 35. Read a newspaper in the Dead Sea
    4 cheers
    1 person
  36. 36. Swim the English Channel
    1 cheer
    107 people
  37. 37. go to India
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1,035 people
  38. 38. Have a smallholding, with chickens, pigs and a few sheep
    1 person
  39. 39. Own my own boat
    17 people
  40. 40. Drink a mojito in Cuba
    1 person

How I did it
How to bid at a real life auction
It took me
1 day
It made me
astonished


How to stop smoking completely
It took me
1 day
It made me
happy


Recent entries
Make a meal only from things I've grown in my garden (read all 3 entries…)
Strawberries 5 days ago

Had a delicious bowl of strawberries picked from my own hanging baskets this weekend. There’s still some left, so will have to have this as my ‘dessert’ element in the meal, and hope that everything else catches up quickly!



Say 'yes' to something at least once a day (read all 3 entries…)
Today, it was... 6 days ago

swearing at an absolute p*k who ignored me when I told him he couldn’t park in the space outside my office. Okay, so the word ‘yes’ wasn’t involved, but I avoided being passive agressive and said EXACTLY what was on my mind – much to his red face.



Read the Big Read's 100 greatest books (read all 45 entries…)
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 1 week ago

I certainly had misgivings about Winnie the Pooh and wouldn’t have ordinarily spent the time reading it, largely thanks to the Disney merchandise prejudicing my opinion of a book I had never read.

But, and it’s a big but, it’s really quite a lovely collection of tales. And there wasn’t a Tigger in sight. 7.87/10.

Total: 46 books read – all in bold

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling

6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis

10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling

23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling

24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling

25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

27. Middlemarch, George Eliot

28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving

29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck

30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson

32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett

34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute

38. Persuasion, Jane Austen

39. Dune, Frank Herbert

40. Emma, Jane Austen

41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery

42. Watership Down, Richard Adams

43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

46. Animal Farm, George Orwell

47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian

50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck

53. The Stand, Stephen King

54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

56. The BFG, Roald Dahl

57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome

58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman

62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden

63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough

65. Mort, Terry Pratchett

66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton

67. The Magus, John Fowles

68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding

71. Perfume, Patrick Suskind

72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell

73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

74. Matilda, Roald Dahl

75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt

77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins

78. Ulysses, James Joyce

79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens

80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson

81. The Twits, Roald Dahl

82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith

83. Holes, Louis Sachar

84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson

87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

89. Magician, Raymond E Feist

90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac

91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo

92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel

93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett

94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

95. Katherine, Anya Seton

96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer

97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson

99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot

100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie



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