seventy seven

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seventy seven

Here you will find the seventy-seven things I want to achieve before I am 30 years old. Some are done, some are in progress, others are still on the wish-list. Please feel free to e-mail me if you can help me with any of these, or simply want to join in the fun and take part.

done

have lunch at claridges with the em led
own one hundred thousand shares in one company
maintain a website
compile my personal top twenty album list
bet fifty quid on a ten to one shot
find out what the phone number is of barclays rugby branch and post it on here
eat a fillet o fish
apply for a preimership or championship managers job
send a copy of lord of the flies to liz's mum and higham lane school library
phone-up and vent my spleen on a talksport phone in
apply for a job that pays more than one hundred grand a year
wear the stupidest outfit ever whilst gambling in a las vegas casino
go to a comedy club
tell my dad i have a tattoo
run the london marathon

in progress

throw a dart (whilst blindfolded) in to a map and visit the country it lands in
raise two thousand five hundred pounds for breast cancer care
bet on, and win, a three-time accumulator
score over two hundred for a game of bowling
read every booker prize winner
go see a basketball and ice hockey game
buy and drink a bottle of wine the same age or older as me
see real madrid at the bernabeu
win the european cup on Football Manager

to do

apply to get artwork in to the tate modern
bake a chocolate cake
be twelve and a half stone
be able to juggle five balls
be an extra in a film or tv programme
brew my own beer
do one hundred press-ups in one go
donate blood on a regular basis
eat at a michelin starred restaurant other than claridges
eat caviar
eat everything on the bbc 'eat these fifty things before you die' list
escape a perfectly justified parking ticket
extract and view my own dna
find out what my blood type is
finish one independent crossword
fly on a plane with my dad
gain the prince2 qualification
get a letter published in a broadsheet newspaper
read the modern librarys one hundred greatest novels
get another tattoo
get an IQ test and apply for mensa
get a photo of me and three mates taken walking across abbey road like the beatles
go and see my family in canada
have a tour of anfield
have an evening at the dogs
have at least one dance lesson before my wedding
join a squash league with mark ingram
learn how to write my name in japanese
learn to play poker
learn to snowboard
live in new york city, paris or at least somewhere abroad for at least a year
make a pork-pie with my old man
memorise how many days are in each month
part-own a race horse
play quake online with inggy
read a five hundred page book in one sitting
read war and peace
request strapping young lad on radio ones 'your call'
run a half marathon in less than 2 hours and ten k in less than an hour
shoot a gun
smoke a cuban cigar
stay in an ice hotel
take my parents out and buy them dinner
understand the rules of american football
visit every county in england, scotland and wales
volunteer
walk from the top of manhattan to the bottom in one go
watch all three godfathers in one sitting
write a completely pointless letter and get it published in a local paper
write and record a song