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Here’s my bucket list. If you’re wondering about the whys and wherefores of the list, you need to see this post.

While I’m populating the list, it will probably be fairly random as I’m putting stuff on whenever I think of them. Also, some of them may require a little explanation – I’ll do that when I can. I’ve left stuff off the list that I can’t influence myself. For example, I’d love to see Jesus return or aliens arrive on Earth (perhaps those are linked?!) but I have no influence over those sorts of things. I will also, generally speaking, leave off things that are too vague – we all want to be a great parent/spouse/parent but it’s a never-ending task.

Anyway, here’s the list:

1. See the Earth from space
2. Become a politician or otherwise influence government – ideally I’d like to PM. Or King…
3. Live off the land for a week
4. Make my own full set of clothes – Shoes, socks, trousers, pants, shirt and jumper.
5. Make my own furniture – something big like a kitchen.
6. Give blood
7. Meet Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
8. Meet Prince Charles
9. Meet the Queen
10. Meet the current Prime Minister
11. Run 50 miles in one go
12. Be directly involved in getting at least one person off the streets and back into society
13. Create a web-app that has paying subscribers
14. Be directly involved in the whole lifecycle of a large animal that I currently eat. Present at birth, raise and kill the animal.
15. Be able to speak another language
16. Weigh less than 12 stone – that’s the ‘optimal’ BMI for my height (6″1′)
17. Be totally debt-free, financially speaking
18. Play or sing in a band that performs at least one gig
19. Be energy self-sufficient or as close to it as possible in my home
20. Learn to sword-fight
21. Invent something that changes the world – in a good way!

So a few of my friends have these bucket list things. I’ve thought about creating one for a while but just have never got round to it. Until now.

I’ve thought about whether or not this sort of thing should be public or not, after all I’m not overly keen when people post every part of their life online, but I’ve decided that mine will be public for the following reasons:

1) Perhaps someone will see something they can help with, and probably more importantly,
2) I like looking at other people’s lists and thought it would be almost hypercritical of me to keep this private

I’ve also spent a lot (too much) time wondering how many items to place on the list and what sort of thing to put on it. If the list is to be a useful aid to doing things, it can’t be too long or nothing will get done. Also it’s a big world out there and there’s millions of things I’d like to do. How do I know whether or not to put it on “the list”.

In the end I thought that the list should be capped at 50 items. Once the list is full, the only way on is via dead man’s boots – it has to knock another one off the list.

I’m also going to try and keep the list ordered, at least roughly. Anyway, as Mr T would say, time to “quit your gibber-jabber” and onto the list…