My Now List

Last week I brought you up to date with what I’ve been spending my time and energy on. You’ll remember that I came clean and told you that my Now List has been pretty much untouched for many months. In fact, it wasn’t until reader Maria emailed me earlier in the week (asking me where she could find my now list) that I realised the last time I updated it was a almost a year ago. Shame on me. So, with apologies for the lack of punctuation and spelling here’s how my Now List – as of August 2012 – looks…

The Top Five!

• Cornwall (booked for this September)
  • Visit the Minack Theatre (August – September)
  • St michael’s mount
  • Fowey
• See ‘The Woman in Black’ – sit near the stage
• Charmouth beach in Dorset (done some research, just need to find time)
• Drive a tractor
• Bridgenorth – looks like a nice place

Time Sensitive

• Estuary Boat trip – see my house from the Thames (found a company that does it, but trips don’t run all year)
• Proper narrow boat holiday through the countryside of Birmingham

Food

• Master the following recipes
  • Dad’s Broccoli and Ham bake
  • Angela’s Ginger Cake
  • Chocolate Brownies
• Go to a place that serves a different wine per course
• Eat deep fried crickets or some other food from the night time food market in Beijing (best do this quick, before I turn veggie!!)

Experiences

• Get to visit The Wilton (old war boat near to where I live. Not open to the public)
• Get close to dolphins
• And seals
• And otters
• bootle feed baby tigers
• Go inside a lighthouse (I think I’ve found a lighthouse)
• Enjoy the experience of living in warmer climate
• Thai chi
• Get friends round and play cranium
• See the four-act version of The Importance Of Being Earnest
• Visit the Houses of Parliment
• Learn to Scuba
• Go to the theatre and sit in a ‘box’ with a select group of friends
• Learn to speak French
• Learn to fence
• Do a live cover of the Flight of The Conchordes song, Business Time (video below – visit the blog if you can’t see this in your email)

Someday, maybe

• get myself on Saturday Kitchen as a featured guest (guess I need to sell a few more copies of the book first)
• Dinner with Imogen Heap.
• Work with Steven Moffet.
• And Richard Curtis

Holidays / Places to visit

• Enjoy the romance of Rome (previous trips lacked this essential ingredient)
• Go back to Sorrento
• Visit Portmeirion, north Wales
• Visit Hong Kong
• Go round the world (in a westerly direction)
• Visit oregan
• Visit the cook islands (and stay for a long, long time)
• Visit the remote parts of france.
• Skiathos – stay in a cottage somewhere inland? Away from the beaches. Hire a moped to get around.
• Visit Jersey
• Visit “Taiyou no tou” (it means “Tower(Statue) of Sun”). Banpaku Park, in Osaka.
• Go to Madagascar
• the cave temples of Ellora
• Zion National Park
• Saint-Paul de Vence – lovely place in france.
• Monteverde Cloud Forest reserve, Costa Rica
• Taktsang monestery, Paro Valley, Bhutan
• Antuigua, lesser Antilles
• Portofino, Liguria, Italy
• Visit Tikal, Guatemala
• Vieux Lyons
• Machu Picchu
• Dunnottar Castle – www.dunnottarcastle.co.uk/
• Swimming with jellyfish in Micronesia  (video below – visit the blog if you can’t see this in your email)

Feel free to share your Now List in the comments section below