Number 5... stand up paddle boarding in the sea!

So, I went along to my surf lesson (courtesy of the good guys down at Surf Steps in Boscombe: http://www.bournemouthsurfschool.co.uk/), but there was no surf to be seen.

However, we had the option of paddle boarding instead. This wasn't on my list as I have paddled boarded before... on a lake. Out at sea is a totally different experience and worthy of my list! http://www.bournemouthsurfschool.co.uk/sup.php

Lots of balance needed but, once standing up and relaxed, what an amazing experience. I'm looking forward to more surf (once I'm properly standing up it will be added to the 'done' section of my list), but if there is no surf I'm happy on a paddle board.

Number 4: The Kamikaze

I had the muddiest time ever achieving my fourth New Thing  For My 40th Year:

The Kamikaze is an 8-mile assault course run consisting of hills, more hills and yet more hills, all of an incline up which I've only ever walked (usually moaning and stopping to 'take in the view'). Not only that, on each lap of the course there were the following...

• Snake's Wedding: An entanglement of rope to navigate
• Kamikaze Slide: 10 meters of plastic and washing-up liquid in downhill fun!
• Bog Crossing: You will get muddy. Very muddy...
• Rope Climb: A hillside so steep it requires a rope to climb it
• River Run: You will get wet. Very wet...

And there's more. These items littered the finish straight:
• Japanese tunnels
• Barbed wire crawl
• 6-foot wall
• Electric box (owies on my arm)
• Grease wall

The most I'd ever run before was about 5 miles and, for the record, a 50-min jog around Bransgore the Friday before the race on Sunday really isn't anywhere near enough preparation.

However, with the emotional and sometimes physical support of my lovely friends Paula Holgate and Sophie Di Leo I got through it, completed the 2 laps, ran 8 miles for the first time and even found some of it hilarious!

The list... read to find out if your idea is in it and you are therefore playing the game! (Names can be added to any activities at any time!)

The list is done!

43 things on it, just in case stuff gets in the way of stuff.

I've put some names to some activities... nothing hard and fast, if you wanna join in any of the activities then the more the merrier!

In doing this blog I realised I'm already on number 3... not bad going for 6 months pre-birthday!

Brownsea Island

Red Squirrels

Drive tank

Watch new sport

Proms

Wimbledon

Campervan trip

Alton Towers hotel

Yurting

Blog

Finish book

Draw a cartoon

Make jewellery

Upcycle

Make booze

Forage and wild cook

Make bread

Grow and use herbs

Grow and use veg

Make choc/sweets

Drumming

Ukulele

Accordion

Skydive

3 Peaks

Longboard

Moonlight bra walk

Race for life as a smurf

Kamakaze

Hand planing

Pier to pier

Coasteering

Parkour

snowboard

Kayak around Studland

Army assault course

Wave board

Kite surfing

Unicycle

Slack line

Bush craft

Magic trick

Pole dancing

Number 2... Go to Brownsea Island

A letter came home from my son's Beaver group about a trip to Brownsea Island... aha, I thought, potential to achieve another thing on my list.

Having been a Brownie and Guide in my youth, Brownsea Island being the home of Scouting was always somewhere I wanted to go to. I've lived in the area for more than 10 years and never got round to it, so mummy volunteering hat on and off I went.

It could have been numbers 2 and 3 if we'd seen red squirrels, however, the 14 noisy Beavers kinda put paid to that. We did see a stag, a fawn, some peacocks and peahens and some peachicks, but I will go back again this year to add red squirrels to my done list.

Progress so far...

NUMBER 1... done

The last 3 weeks have been absolutely manic... 15 days to see family and friends in New Zealand is no time at all.

However, I did start my list in a massive, awesome and crazy way: 15,000ft skydive...1-minute freefall and then playing around with the parachute! The maddest thing I ever did do, with my Forever New Sis: