Pleased that the airfix model came yesterday. Took me right back to childhood having spent a few hours last night beginning to build it. Getting it just perfect is a bit of a challenge. We shall see. I’ll spend a little time later painting while watching san remo. Hoping to chalk this off complete soon.

Visited a local crafty shop this morning to pick up a sketch pad, now what do I do with it?

Whilst nothing on the list is getting really tackled today (only really added to), I felt it was time to put wheels in motion to get one of the first items I came up with complete … and that’s visiting the Northumberland Coastline alone…

After some searching, and some assistance from a friend, I’ve re-foundthe name of an excellent Bed and Breakfast up there. I’ve pencilled in the visit for Friday 3rd June and the plan will be to walk up the coastline from Alnmouth to Seahouses and spend a hard day’s graft in the outdoors with perfect solitude…. I reckon I can knock a few more items off whilst I’m at it.

Having had a serious ponder, I’ve come up with a series of other items to put on the list….

Here goes…

Buy shares in a company***

Go a prestigious film festival**

Finish Dhalgren*

See the Northern Lights**

Go to an Opera**

Go Zip-lining**

Visit Alaska***

Cycle Route 72 (Hadrian’s Wall) **

Buy a good quality camera and learn to take great pictures **

Attend SXSW***

Visit the film location of the Goonies (Astoria)***

Drink coffee in a bookshop café in Seattle… when its raining***

Drink champagne in Champagne**

Go to a sealife centre*

Release a chinese lantern*

Ocean kayaking**

Obtain a good telescope and spend an evening star-gazing**

Watch the AFI 100 movies ***

Eat Italian food in Italy**

Snowboard**

Go to the Ballet**

Visit a shooting range**

Hold a tarantula **

Spend a day on an isolated beach**

Send a message in a bottle**

Have Eggs Benedict*

Play poker (properly)*

Join a book club – maybe just even for one read*

Spend a day at the races*

Leave a jazz club no sooner than 3am*

Play conkers … one last time*

Go on a canal boating holiday*

Pick fruit and make something edible with it*

Make a pizza from scratch*

Perform 250 sit-ups*

Have a ‘super-soaker’ fight in the summer*

Sketch a famous building*

Watch sun-rise on a beach*

Build a sandcastle*

Fly a kite*

Obtain an set up a Horby train set**

Visit Normandy**

Watch the worst 10 films on IMDB**

Refurbish something – maybe a bike **

Visit the Alnwick converted-railway station *

Spend several hours really paying attention to Durham Cathedral *

Visit York again and make sure I visit a Yorkshire tea-shop and have a scone *

Go to an internation rugby match either featuring England or New Zealand**

Make a list of a hundred books I want to read and read them *

Eat in a celebrity restaurant*

Teach English in a Foreign Language**

Give a homless person a quantity of paper-money*

Use a hammock, ideally in a tropical climate*

Visit an active volcano**

Visit Corsica**

Be in a real-honest-to-god desert**

Go horse riding

Horticultural skills will be put to the test shortly. Bonsai kit has been ordered. Apparently it needs to be put in the refrigerator for a week before hand. What is that all about? This will test my patience. I always enjoyed the karate kid..

I loved Airfix models and ‘trying’ to build them when I was younger. The frustrating thing about them was rushing to get them done and doing a shoddy job. I also remember being traumatised when I learnt that Airfix were going in administration…. Anyway, what I want to do is build one … properly.

Today, I’ve ordered a kit from Amazon (you’ve got to love Amazon…) and I’m hoping it’ll be here for the weekend when I can get this started.

One of the items on the Blist is to set up a blog which will keep track of my aims and also record other things I want to do as and when I come across them. As you’ve figured out, the Blog is go….  this will be online diary and record of all-things Blist.

So, that’s one chalked off. Result….