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travelmickey

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  2. 1. Visit 30 countries before I am 30
    11 entries . 28 cheers     		20 people
  3. 2. Say 'yes' to something at least once a day
    3 entries . 1 cheer     		1 person
  4. 3. Milk a cow
    1 entry . 8 cheers     		494 people
  5. 4. Catch a fish and eat it
    1 cheer     		13 people
  6. 5. Make a meal only from things I've grown in my garden
    3 entries . 4 cheers     		1 person
  7. 6. Watch Channel 4's 100 greatest films
    16 entries . 9 cheers     		10 people
  8. 7. Read the Big Read's 100 greatest books
    45 entries . 13 cheers     		22 people
  9. 8. Get an allotment
    1 entry     		17 people
  10. 9. Learn to use my sewing machine
    1 entry     		56 people
  11. 10. Weigh under ten stone
    4 entries . 5 cheers     		3 people
  12. 11. Find a Bookcrossing book
    2 entries . 7 cheers     		28 people
  13. 12. Donate blood
    1 entry . 17 cheers     		2,478 people
  14. 13. Take 52 amazing photographs this year
    4 entries . 12 cheers     		6 people
  15. 14. Get a travel article published
    7 cheers     		2 people
  16. 15. Own my own home
    4 entries . 8 cheers     		1,324 people
  17. 16. Learn how to bookbind
    9 cheers     		38 people
  18. 17. paint a picture
    3 entries . 12 cheers     		480 people
  19. 18. Stay in the ice hotel
    2 entries . 25 cheers     		40 people
  20. 19. Get a byline in The Guardian
    2 entries . 4 cheers     		1 person
  21. 20. Visit every continent
    3 entries . 10 cheers     		1,530 people
  22. 21. bungee jump
    1 entry . 7 cheers     		3,318 people
  23. 22. Cruise the Nile in a felluca
    1 entry . 8 cheers     		3 people
  24. 23. write a novel and get it published
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		324 people
  25. 24. make a documentary film
    4 entries . 13 cheers     		542 people
  26. 25. Drive around Europe in a VW campervan
    2 entries . 20 cheers     		12 people
  27. 26. Run the New York Marathon
    1 entry . 10 cheers     		78 people
  28. 27. Walk the Santiago pilgrimage trail
    1 entry . 9 cheers     		8 people
  29. 28. visit the Taj Mahal
    1 entry . 10 cheers     		155 people
  30. 29. see the northern lights
    4 entries . 19 cheers     		16,413 people
  31. 30. see the pyramids in Egypt
    1 entry . 13 cheers     		229 people
  32. 31. Climb a live volcano
    2 entries . 14 cheers     		5 people
  33. 32. Go to Dharamsala and meet the Dalai Lama
    3 entries . 9 cheers     		11 people
  34. 33. go to Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
    1 entry . 11 cheers     		56 people
  35. 34. Sing karaoke and eat sushi in Japan
    4 entries . 10 cheers     		2 people
  36. 35. Read a newspaper in the Dead Sea
    4 cheers     		1 person
  37. 36. Swim the English Channel
    1 cheer     		107 people
  38. 37. go to India
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		1,035 people
  39. 38. Have a smallholding, with chickens, pigs and a few sheep
    		1 person
  40. 39. Own my own boat
    		17 people
  41. 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 I did it: I've been looking at sales dates at local arts and antiques auctions for ages, years in fact. But today was the day I got up early, made my way to the auction house and sat patiently with a card reading '351' on it, waiting for my potential lots to come up. There were three things I wanted to bid on, the first went far too high far too fast so I left it, the second saw me in a bidding war against an old man for a tea set and he won, and t… Read how I did it…

Jun 25, 05:30AM PDT | 0 comments


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

How I did it: I just didn't light up again. Simple. It was bloody hard, particularly coping with the cravings and quitting cold turkey, but it didn't prolong the process, so was best for me. Read how I did it…

Jun 05, 06:30AM PDT | 1 comment | 3 cheers


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!

Jul 06, 04:58AM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


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.

Jul 04, 11:26AM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


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

Jul 03, 02:37AM PDT | 0 comments


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stay single website Make love. learn ruby on rails AlissonNJ wants to remodel my kitchen vote watch anime episodes online for free be more tolerant of stupid, annoying people play, record, mix, and produce my own music Be an extra in a movie Pay off all my credit cards Open my own day spa find love do a handstand melissa wants to try something new once a month Get into med school reconnect with old friends Improve my posture Be optimistic get back in shape have a library sleep less go to my 10 year high school reunion make my dad proud go rock climbing lose 17 pounds romikumu wants to be completely happy be the one
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