What I've already done

Friends and family members have been thinking creatively to suggest new things I might try in my seventieth year. The trouble is, I've already done A LOT! At least it feels like a lot as I collect it all together. I'm still happy to receive suggestions any time during this year.

Making a photograph album with pictures from my whole life (so far) has provided reminders of all the things I've already done in life. I can't quite make an A to Z list but maybe I'll add to this post as my album progresses?

I'm not preparted to try anything inherently risky, such as parachute jumping, because I would like to live to be 70.

So, these are the things ticked off my "bucket list" a while ago:

• abseiling (on the Scargill House estate when I was 36 years old)

• baking a wedding cake (for my own wedding, everybody survived)

• making a Christmas cake

• set up and ran a business - HOME FREED domestic clutter clearing 2007 - 2017

• learning circus skills (not well enough to perform in a circus)

• classes in tap dancing, and line dancing

• SCUBA diving

• studying for an academic degree (x2)

• fishing - for salmon in the Pacific Ocean (yes, I caught some) - for trout in fresh water (yes)

• performing in a play (many times, most recently in Chester Mystery Plays 2023)

• directing a play (when I was a schoolteacher)

• being interviewed on the radio (in both the UK & the USA)

• singing in a choir

• teaching was my first career

• following a writing course (more than once)

• editing a published book

• reading my own writing to an audience on an "open mic" night

• winning a prize in a writing competition (more than once, but never first prize)

• zip wire over a quarry pit in Wales - scary stuff!