Kicking the can

Im finding it hard to blip on a regular work day and it doesnt help that I had the gym straight after work and forgot my camera. Therefore the picture is an emergency blip in the five minutes I was home, however kicking the can is relevant to todays story later on.

Firstly, Ruby seen me coming out the shower a few days ago and asked the inevitable "whats that daddy" question, well being a modern parent I told her that girls had flowers and boys had soldiers and if she wanted to know anything else to ask her mother.

Well, she is a clever little cookie is our Ruby and last night she was getting ready for bed and talking to Connie. She says, Mummy, you know how girls have flowers, Connie says yes baby, well mummy, daddys have....Si.....So.....Se.....Su....Eh Eh....SCREWDRIVERS..... Gotta love a childs logic.

Ive been thinking what else could go out my bucket list before i kick the can and have come up with this list, some of which I have added retrsopectively and have already crossed off. I suppose its cheating a little, but I didnt want to forget about some of the stuff that I have already done in my lifetime thus far.

Heres my reaper list.

go around the world in 80 days
Go on a nice cruise
Go to florida
Go to canada
do a route 66 road trip
go to new zealand
go to the caribbean
go to thailand
catch the next plane to leave the airport - spontaneous travelling
visit a rainforest
stand under a waterfall ( somewhere warm)
visit a live volcano
see the 7 wonders of the world
see the 7 ancient wonders of the world
climb machu pichu
visit the worlds capital cities
get drunk at ocktoberfest
visit bhutan
experience mardi gras
spend a night in a proper castle
go to up helly aa
see the northern lights
walk at least part of the great wall of china
visit rome & pompeii
fly first class/business class just once
visit australia
go on my first holiday with dad
visit a prisoner of war camp
visit the secret bunker
visit disney
skinny dip in a scottish loch
chillax in a hot tub in a snow blizzard
go on a safari
listen to blues in new orleans bar
climb the eifell tower
visit amsterdam
see stonehenge
see the pyramids
visit the maldives
dance in the street in madrid
visit st lucia
visit york
have a spa in the town of bath
walk the west highland way
walk the southern upland way
travel on the london underground
have a turkish bath in turkey
go to rio for carnivale
spend new year in times square new york
visit niagra falls
go to lapland at christmas time,
Get snowed in somewhere cool
race the nurburgring
ride in a limo
build and race a classic mini
enter a gumball style rally
buy a boat
drive a tank
buy all my daughters their first car
buy a caterham 7 or westfield
buy an impreza turbo
race a car at knockhill
own a cabriolet
own a classic sports car - mg or similar
travel in a submarine
own an iconic golf gti
sail a tall ship
travel first class on the orient express
own a classic motorcycle
ride a harley trike
ride pillion on a fast bike
get wet on a jet boat
drive a tractor
take a landrover off road driving
own a quad bike
go on the harry potter railway journey
sit on top of a train in india with the locals
ride the japanese bullet train
visit some massive caves
bask in an out door volcanic mud pool
go on a camping trip with my children
fold 1000 origami boats and sail them with my kids
walk my daughters up the isle
fly chinese floating lanterns
horse ride with my daughter
wish on a shooting star
get my eldests daughters tattoo on my opposite arm
build a treehouse for my first grandson
have children, many
buy a house or two
get a pet, preferably a dog
get married
plant a tree
own a house by a loch/river/sea/harbour
be debt free
be mortgage free
live on a houseboat
witness the birth of a child
have grandchildren
write a book
learn to play guitar
run with the bulls
bungee from a hot air baloon
visit everest base camp
experience zero gravity
go paragliding
survive the weekend somewhere remote eating only what you can find
parachute
skydive
shoot a handgun
swim with captive dolphins
swim with wild dolphins
ride some of the worlds best rollercoasters
rock climb
abseil of the forth rail bridgeswim with sharks
learn tai chi
train to do a 100 consecutive push ups
shave my head for a good cause
learn to meditate
get a bit part in a film
get published in a paper or magazine
buy a metal detector and hunt for treasure
visit a mine shaft
go fossil hunting
go deep sea big game fishing for marlin
get a job doing something that inspires me
keep a web journal
get fitter - may help to join a gym
grow a moustache for charity - Movember
start your own web business
go on an archelogical dig
dress up as captain jack sparrow
learn spanish
read the top 100 novels of the 20th century
write about my childhood
have a photo published
get a tattoo
go to a fancy dress party totally in charachter
do glastonbury and forget you went
see a west end show in london
see the same show on broadway
go to a concert and stand in the main crowd
watch imbd's top 50 movies of all time
go to a midnight showing of a movie
skydive indoors
build an igloo
parascending
paragliding
ride an elephant
ride a camel
see gorillas in the wild
hold a chimp
hold a tarantula
hold a snake
ride a donkey
ride a horse in the ocean
go whale watching
take a photograph of lightning
go jetski-ing
go kayaking
go gliding
ride in a bi-plane
Gate crash a wedding
go sandboarding
go hot air balooningattend a masquerade ball
order hotel room service
be part of a flash mob
get married in a vegas church
eat a cheese stake in philadelphia
have a pint of guinness at the guinness brewery
eat weird meats
bury a timecapsule
join a charitable organisation
east sushi off a geisha
Carve someting out of wood like a totem pole
climb a munro
See a snowboarding competition