My Big Zero list
The reason I want to post the list here as well as over on The Big Zeroes is that I think over the next twelve months I'll be asking you for your help with some of the items. So. Here it is:
Buy jewellery to commemorate the boys and the books
Subscribe to Coast magazine
Cook at least one meal each week
Parkgate
Take the boys to Parkgate for shrimps and ice cream (not together!)
Watch a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film (Top Hat?)
Milk a cow
Spend my birthday in New York*
Visit Disneyland at Christmas
Get my Best Ever Body
Could it be this one?
Find a "signature" perfume
Take the boys camping
Read everything in my TBR pile
Catch up on all my online saved items
Meet at least one friend for lunch/dinner each month
Make a really good cheesecake
Eat pistachio ice cream with mini marshmallows
Try bacon or cheese chocolate and oysters
Spend the weekend in a VW camper van
Jodrell Bank
Go to Jodrell Bank
Organise my photos once and for all (on Flickr, scan in photos and slides)
Create a family gallery up the stairs
Learn to crochet
Write letters to people I admire and who inspire me
Make a family tree (with names at least)
Have a singing lesson
Buy and watch the complete Buffy (finally!)
Go to Hilbre Island
Chris and Pui
Take the boys to see Chris & Pui
See Avenue Q again
Celebrate our birthdays and anniversaries. Properly.
Buy fresh flowers at least once a month
Read Mary Oliver's poetry
Not this Brazilian...
Perform a Random Act of Kindness once a week
Write a picture book for Harry and Joe
Learn about classical music
Have a Brazilian wax
Have a go on a potters wheel
Have a family portrait taken
Order a KFC bucket (just the once!)
Read The Collected Peanuts (and watch the cartoons too)
* and if I do, try the frozen custard at Shake Shack, and Nora Ephron's cabbage strudel; see Promises, Promises and Love, Loss and What I Wore on Broadway; and obviously visit the settings from my book (squeak!)
