To do

I recently decided I need to keep a to-do list of all the things to do before I leave England. And then I thought, why not be properly gen y and make everyone read that list?* So here it is - including some things I have done and some others that I may never actually get around to. But hopefully I'll be able to tick off most. Please add any suggestions, and more importantly please help me to do these things if it lies within your power!

1. Leave Cambridge once a month, either on a day trip or holiday. Technically this is my New Year's resolution although I'm undecided on whether I've managed to keep it. I only passed January if already being in Scotland at the beginning of the month counts, and I've only passed April if already being in Croatia counts (unless I skive off tomorrow and go to Newmarket or something equally grim). I'm going to say they do count otherwise I'm awful at this resolution and I'll just have to try harder for the next 17 months. My reasoning is that it's ok if I don't use the same trip for two different months - i.e I can use Croatia for April as long as I use a different trip for March. Decision justified.
2. Go punting - this will be happening on Wednesday 8th, weather permitting.
3. Learn to punt. Or at least try to learn. I have little faith that I'll actually be able to do it.
4. Swim in the Cam. (4b - not get mystery illness from swimming in the Cam. 4c - research carefully and avoid the nudist section of the Cam)
5. White Christmas (by going somewhere snowy rather than by staying in England and praying hard)
6. Build a snowman and make a snow angel.
7. Christmas in July
8. Gain admittance to as many colleges as possible without being questioned.
9. Go to a May Ball - probably too late this year but I might be able to sort it out for next year.
10. Scratch Requiem. If I can find one.
11. Go to the beach.
12. Go hiking (or strolling) in Scotland.
13. Have my first Guinness in Ireland (because now I'm so close it would be weird to have my first Guinness in England).
14. Follow the path of the Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris. It's ambitious but it's specific.
15. Visit 14 Montagu St London, near the British museum, where a dear friend left her bible when she was 19 years old - it was restored to her 30 years later by a German missionary and his wife. Good story.
16. See a footlights production.
17. Go to an opera.
18. Go to a ballet.
19. Go to a garden party.
20. Drink pimms by the river.

Add any suggestions for places to go, things to do and dares to try (bearing in kind I'm not all that daring). I'll try to get as many done as possible!

Aside - if you want to get a postcard from me, send me your address. Even if you just live up the road, I'm all about the postcards now.

*It has come to my attention that I am now treating what was going to be a blog as a series of whimsical lists. Apologies.