The List

Last week I had a conversation with the lovely LC (my yoga (and soon to be spa) buddy)and LC mentioned that my list was nowhere to be seen. And then I realised that I had forgotten to actually blog the list...........So, in no particular order......

1  Afternoon tea at The Ritz
2  Dinner at the Spaghetti House
3  Cocktails at Centrepoint Cocktail bar
4   Long weekend in London (to help with 1/2/3 and 19)
5   Learn to surf
6   Get into blue stripey dress
7   Spa break/yoga retreat
8   Road trip holiday- (French/Spanish passion)
9   Drive abroad (including motorway)
10 Go wild swimming
11  Make a roman blind
12  Pay off student loan before I am 40
13  Walk part of/all Coast to Coast path
14  Go roller skating
15  Have pizza at pizza pub
16  Be a more confident driver
17  Partake in more culture
18  Stop my checking habits
19  Visit the house in Spaced
20  Do a craft fair
21  Knit a tanktop jumper
22  Be able to do 20 press ups in one go
23  Go to Lewes bonfire night
24  Run Race for life 2012
25  Have fish and chips and cava watching the sunset.
26  This is blank for an unexpected opportunity
27  Blog about these things
28  Put up hammock and crochet in it
29  Go up a wind turbine
30  Cycle to work
31  Finish felt fish for JGS
32  Crochet a ripple blanket
33  Make Gert lovely (seats/doors/seals)
34  Make an ironing board cover
35  Revamp dining table
36  Finish patchwork (started in 1988)
37  Go for a drink at a social club
38  Go to a New Years Day fireworks celebration
39  Do a zumbathon
40  Submit chartership paperwork.


so that is my list. I probably should point out that this is not a 'bucket list' ( I hope !) but a list of things I wanted to do in a year. I have discovered that whilst I like putting a tick next to something I have completed, I am also a terrible procrastinator with a lack of faith in both myself and my abilities at times. So I made a list to include things that I have wittered on about for months (probably years) but never actually done. Some of them are not likely to get completed (8/13/17 and I have no idea how to assess 18) and I am ok with that. I can carry them over- especially the driving ones as I think JGS and I are going to do this next year !!  I need to speak better french and become 'winch compliant'.

In other news.....
Yesterday, I made a blackberry and apple crumble and we nipped off to the beach to walk the dog and have pudding by the sea. I would like to say that it is creme fraiche with the crumble. But it is bad cream !. Have fun xx

Number 28- put up hammock and crochet in it (simple things)

Last weekend was lovely and hot (and I am not a hot weather person). JGS, dog and I just relaxed and pottered. It was just lovely. This weekend--- well that is a different matter. Whereas last weekend I was wondering when I got middle aged as I realised how fabulous it was that I emptied the laundry bin, washed everything and dried it all on the line. And it was mostly the 'drying on the line' that pleased me at the time (but has since worried me deeply). This weekend, nothing has dried. In fact things have got even wetter as I just left them hanging on the line in the rain. I have made a conscious decision to remove this 'Stepfordness' from my life.
I feel better now I have got that in the open.

So yes, number 28- put up hammock and crochet in it. Up went hammock and in I went.

This is a blanket for a friend who is due baby #3 at any time. Luckily my list provided me with this opportunity to sit and relax and crochet. I am also putting this towards number 32- crochet a ripple blanket. Even though I know it is stripey and only a ripple if you shake it up and down and wave it about in front of your face. However, I have made a conscious decision (yes another one) to finish off all my WiP's before I start another crochet project- WHICH WILL BE A RIPPLE (but probably a cushion rather than a blanket- although this blanket is a lovely size so I could ripple one this size maybe). Whilst hammocking and crocheting I also did some tea drinking.

The hammock was not very high off the ground so I was able to reach my tea easily. In case anyone was worried. I darned all the ends in on this blanket this weekend and last night edged it in a lovely green. So it is now officially finished. Here it is- all rolled up and ready to go.

In all honestly-I am contemplating handing it over and saying if you don't like it PLEASE LET ME HAVE IT BACK. I WILL NOT BE OFFENDED. In my urge to finish off outstanding projects I also finished this.

Wow- I hear you say. Another cushion. But this one is mine. All for me. To brighten up 'headache corner' now granny square blanket has been rehomed in Gert.

PS I understand that 'crocheting in a hammock' isn't exactly 'bucket list' .

Not even on my 40 4 40 list

But it appears that I have just signed up for a 10k in September!
Just off for a lie down...........

15 -Have pizza at lovely pub that does pizza!

A few miles away there is a lovely pub which serves pizza. Home made pizza. And they always look lovely. And I REALLY wanted one. So I put it on my list.
I suggested we should have said pizza for JGS's birthday. I would get to cross something off my list, JGS would get a lovely birthday treat- now that my friends (I have 5 followers- so that is definitely plural but maybe too casual to all be 'friends? Too late..) is what is known over this way as 'a touch' and what is known over my way as 'playing a blinder'.
My pizza was delish.
I took the required photo.
I am a bit scared to post it as I had a fiorentina. Which it turns out- is not the most photogenic pizza. And I have previous bad food photos with the ration packs from Snowdon.
This is what is should look like- perfect fiorentina
And this is what it did look like- but it was scrummy. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

JGS had a calzone. Which hit the spot nicely.

Running update

Well..... I am not sure how this happened. Nor how I purchased the wrong magazine. I was recommended Women's Running but appear to have acquired Runners World. In my defence, I think I panicked as I never thought I would be buying a magazine about running. Thanks for the tip though DL- I will get Women's Running next time- as specified... Hope your training is going well.

I have been out running tonight-the first time in a week which is the longest that I have not been running since I started training for Race for Life (do you know I finished in under 30 minutes??? Have I mentioned that?) I need to get a crack on with running 10k now as the 10k I am hoping to enter is at the end of September. I would like to run that in an hour.

Last Monday I did 6.5k in 43 minutes and tonight I did that same route but backwards. This was a mistake as I ended up doing a lot of walking as there was quite a lot of traffic on the lanes- which was annoying and the whole thing seemed to take longer and was definitely more difficult (for some reason) but now I am home I can see how much the dog and I had to stop. And to be honest, I should get over myself- I am not an Olympian. And I was only out for 45 minutes so it wasn't that bad.

My running partner and I took a while to get into our stride tonight. At one point I was laughing as we were like an old couple in some sort of badly organised 3-legged race. My running partner is very patient .

We are going to practice more next week.