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