This is my bucket list of things I want to do. The ones annotated in blue I’ve achieved. The ones annotated in red I have failed on. I’ll try to keep the list up to date with progress, and indeed with any additions/deletions.
- Visit Japan
- Fly on Concorde [Concorde is no more]
- Travel across Europe on Orient Express
- Heal my father and his rift with his family [father died in 2006 before I succeeded]
- Learn dowsing [done c.2001]
- Retire in financial comfort [done 2010; we’re comfortable at the moment but who knows what the future brings?]
- Celebrate my mother’s 100th birthday with her [mother died in 2015 aged 99 & 7 months]
- Appear on TV/radio programme about Anthony Powell
- Get a tattoo [cancelled due to knee replacements and diabetes]
- Win £1M+ on Lottery (or similar)
- Visit the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway [done several times since 2004]
- Invest in penny shares
- Visit Norway
- Have a nudist holiday [done as a kid, want to do again as an adult]
- Lead a funeral celebration [done in 2005 for a friend]
- Go on the London Eye [done several times since 2005]
- Visit the West Somerset Railway
- Visit the London Aquarium [done 2005; wasn’t impressed]
- Visit Scilly Isles
- Pose nude for an artist or photographer (not a family member) [nude photos taken for a book in 2016]
- Fly on flightdeck of commercial airliner [now pretty well impossible, I know]
- Visit Iceland
- Travel on Eurostar [done several times since 2006]
- Take the train to Kyle of Lochalsh
- Visit Sweden
- Give a funeral oration [done five times since 2005, including both my parents]
- Have acupuncture [done 2018]
- Try zazen
- Prove my family history back to Tudor times [done 2018, got one line back to c.1520]
- Reunite with Auntie Jessie & Uncle Cyril (father’s siblings) [done 2007]
- Go for a nude swim
- Visit the Smithsonian [unlikely to do as I don’t expect to visit USA again]
- Visit the Horniman Museum [done 2018]
- Have a professional massage [done 2014]
- Visit USA [done 2009; Washington DC & Williamsberg]
- Fly in a helicopter
- Celebrate our Ruby Wedding
- Celebrate our Golden Wedding
- Celebrate my 70th birthday in good health
- Retire before I’m 60 [done 2010]
- Celebrate my 80th birthday in good health
- Get a piercing [done 2010]
- Do past life regression under hypnotherapy [done some but not fully enough]
- Find an armigerous ancestor
- Walk across London’s Millennium Bridge
- Have hypnotherapy [done first in 2011]
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Write a book and have it published [published my own photo book in 2011; edited several volumes of Anthony Powell conference proceedings since 2001]
- See the aurora borealis
- See the Severn Bore
- Travel the Trans-Siberian Railway
- Reunite with my half-aunts (father’s half-sisters) [done 2012]
- Travel on a sleeper train, preferably Caledonian Sleeper
- Take the train from Land’s End to John O’Groats (or vice versa), ie. Penzance to Wick/Thurso
- Try yoga [done 2014 and found I couldn’t do it ‘cos I hate being turned upside down continually]
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Last updated: 13 January 2019, Keith Marshall