Personal Bucket List

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.

  1. Visit Japan
  2. Fly on Concorde [Concorde is no more]
  3. Travel across Europe on Orient Express
  4. Heal my father and his rift with his family [father died in 2006 before I succeeded]
  5. Learn dowsing [done c.2001]
  6. Retire in financial comfort [done 2010; we’re comfortable at the moment but who knows what the future brings?]
  7. Celebrate my mother’s 100th birthday with her [mother died in 2015 aged 99 & 7 months]
  8. Appear on TV/radio programme about Anthony Powell
  9. Get a tattoo [cancelled due to knee replacements and diabetes]
  10. Win £1M+ on Lottery (or similar)
  11. Visit the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway [done several times since 2004]
  12. Invest in penny shares
  13. Visit Norway
  14. Have a nudist holiday [done as a kid, want to do again as an adult]
  15. Lead a funeral celebration [done in 2005 for a friend]
  16. Go on the London Eye [done several times since 2005]
  17. Visit the West Somerset Railway
  18. Visit the London Aquarium [done 2005; wasn’t impressed]
  19. Visit Scilly Isles
  20. Pose nude for an artist or photographer (not a family member) [nude photos taken for a book in 2016]
  21. Fly on flightdeck of commercial airliner [now pretty well impossible, I know]
  22. Visit Iceland
  23. Travel on Eurostar [done several times since 2006]
  24. Take the train to Kyle of Lochalsh
  25. Visit Sweden
  26. Give a funeral oration [done five times since 2005, including both my parents]
  27. Have acupuncture [done 2018]
  28. Try zazen
  29. Prove my family history back to Tudor times [done 2018, got one line back to c.1520]
  30. Reunite with Auntie Jessie & Uncle Cyril (father’s siblings) [done 2007]
  31. Go for a nude swim
  32. Visit the Smithsonian [unlikely to do as I don’t expect to visit USA again]
  33. Visit the Horniman Museum [done 2018]
  34. Have a professional massage [done 2014]
  35. Visit USA [done 2009; Washington DC & Williamsberg]
  36. Fly in a helicopter
  37. Celebrate our Ruby Wedding
  38. Celebrate our Golden Wedding
  39. Celebrate my 70th birthday in good health
  40. Retire before I’m 60 [done 2010]
  41. Celebrate my 80th birthday in good health
  42. Get a piercing [done 2010]
  43. Do past life regression under hypnotherapy [done some but not fully enough]
  44. Find an armigerous ancestor
  45. Walk across London’s Millennium Bridge
  46. Have hypnotherapy [done first in 2011]
  47. Ride in a hot air balloon
  48. Write a book and have it published [published my own photo book in 2011; edited several volumes of Anthony Powell conference proceedings since 2001]
  49. See the aurora borealis
  50. See the Severn Bore
  51. Travel the Trans-Siberian Railway
  52. Reunite with my half-aunts (father’s half-sisters) [done 2012]
  53. Travel on a sleeper train, preferably Caledonian Sleeper
  54. Take the train from Land’s End to John O’Groats (or vice versa), ie. Penzance to Wick/Thurso
  55. 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