Mrs_Allen

1. Fall in love – done
2. Get a tattoo – done
3. Get a job – done
4. Kiss in the rain
5. Learn to drive – done
6. Get married – done
7. Drink more water – done
8. Go camping
9. Quit Smoking (Never really smoked so this doesn’t count)
10. Have my first kiss – done
11. Make Firefox my default browser
12. Learn how to drive stick-shift – done
13. Go skinny dipping
14. See the northern lights
15. Sleep under the stars
16. Ride a roller coaster – done
17. Dye my hair – done
18. Get my driver’s license – done
19. Get a massage – done
20. Fly a kite – done
21. Eat sushi
22. Build a snowman – done
23. Dance in the rain
24. Bake a cake – done
25. Donate blood – done
26. Buy a House – done
27. Type with 10 fingers
28. Visit a zoo – done
29. Go to a rock concert – done
30. Bake cookies – done
31. Lose weight – done
32. Be happy – done
33. Make a snow angel
34. Volunteer for something – done
35. Win something
36. Read “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
37. Donate to charity – done
38. Get an iPod
39. Swim with dolphins
40. Donate old clothes to charity – done
41. Give blood – done
42. Graduate from college
43. Tell someone I love them – done
44. Read a classic – done
45. Write a song
46. Have a picnic – done
47. Volunteer – volunteer
48. Have a movie marathon – done
49. Own a t-shirt with a band name on it – done
50. Create my own website – done
51. Learn to knit
52. Sing in the shower – done
53. Go on a cruise – done
54. Hold a snake
55. Become a vegetarian
56. Read a book in a day – done
57. Make love – done
58. Roll on your side down a grassy bank – done
59. Visit a museum – done
60. Go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
61. Stop biting my nails
62. Do something illegal
63. Meet someone famous – done
64. Take more pictures – done
65. Make new friends – done
66. Get completely soaked in the rain
67. Make a prank phone call
68. Lie in bed all day – done
69. Build a sandcastle – done
70. Experience a white Christmas
71. Skydive
72. Finish a Sudoku puzzle – done
73. Spend a whole day reading a great novel – done
74. Horse ride – done
75. Wake up when my alarm clock goes off – done
76. Dye Easter eggs
77. Graduate from school – done
78. Have a slumber party – done
79. Swing on a swing – done
80. Go to a football game – done
81. Write a poem
82. Roast marshmallows
83. Have Oreos and milk together
84. Do yoga
85. Slide down a slide – done
86. Drink hot chocolate – done
87. Do ten full push-ups
88. Get a passport – done
89. Have a baby
90. Visit an art gallery – done
91. Make an infant laugh/smile – done
92. Learn to play the guitar
93. Learn how to cook – done
94. Watch the Sound of Music
95. Overcome a fear
96. Get drunk once – done
97. Go to college – done
98. Grow my hair long – done
99. Visit Europe – done
100. Own a car – done 11 months ago

all of my digital photos are now sorted into albums.
however I have thousands of physical ones that I’d like to scan but which could take me forever and I don’t have the time at the moment.

I’m also displaying more photos. Designed a great layout for the living room which is complete and now in the process of doing one for the hallway. 11 months ago

so the kitchen has been repainted, including cupboards and tiles. we couldn’t afford new cabinets but we’ve done has made a huge difference. Few bits left to be done that we’re saving for including new sink and taps, new floor and getting the work surfaces replaced/recovered.
all the little bits left in the living room have been finished off.
The last bedroom has been finished and is now a cool place to hang out with a comfy sofa bed, the computer and our library of books, cds and dvds.
Next is the upstairs and downstairs hallway and the staircase. They’re being started this week.
That only leaves the garden, dining room and possibly we may redo the bathroom.

I feel like the end is in sight!! 11 months ago

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien Y
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman Y
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 Y
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne Y
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell Y
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis Y
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger Y
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame Y
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres Y
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 Y
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 Y
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl Y
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Y
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 Y
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 Y
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 Y
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 Y
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 Y
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 Y
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind Y
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl Y
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding Y
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins Y
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl Y
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 Y
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 García Márquez Y
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome Y
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland Y
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker Y
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks Y
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham Y
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl Y
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl Y
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker Y
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King Y
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl Y
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl Y
170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Y
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl Y
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis Y
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh Y
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence Y
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells Y
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans Y
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle Y
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews 11 months ago

Joined up last week so waiting for my pack and free binoculars to come thru :)
Visited Waddesdon Manor at the weekend and stopped off at Rycote Chapel on the way home. Although this isn’t a National Trust property our cards got us a discount.
Planning our next couple of visits to Basildon Park and West Wycombe Park. Can’t wait 11 months ago