I achieved just seven off my list of 37 things to achieve before my 37th birthday!

• Tick off three incomplete items from previous lists
• Watch ten films based on Shakespeare plays
• Watch ten animated non-Disney films
• Read all the Poirot books
• Finish three cross-stitches
• Knit a blanket
• Go to Paris
• Do something amazing for Hannah’s 30th birthday
• Re-read Lord of the Rings
• Buy a car
• Set up a home writing space
• Get a National Trust or English Heritage membership
• Have a day out with my sisters
• Watch 52 films by women (written or directed)
• Go to ten new-to-me vegan restaurants
• Have watched ten foreign-language films from this list
• Bake eight cakes
• Complete an online screenwriting course
• Go to the theatre
• Learn to play my ukulele
• Have a regular yoga practice
• Go on five weekends away
• Start an IGTV channel
• Establish and stick to a morning skincare routine
• Feature five Essex Loves interviews
• Enter a writing competition
• Earn money from my blog
• Photograph fifty new blue plaques
• Re-design my blog
• Finish watching E.R. and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Listen to 12 audiobooks
• Get drunk
• Use 12 new vegan/cruelty-free items
• Go to a live recording of a podcast
• Rewatch The West Wing
• Go to a boot sale
• Watch all previously unwatched Steven Spielberg-directed films