Adventure #87 – Throw a party all about me My intention was to celebrate my 30th birthday with a big party all about me due to covid I was unfortunately unable to. So three years later I organised and threw Pryor Fest! This was a party all about me, celebrating me. It was just awesome …
#3 – Get a tattoo “Just keep swimming” So on my sisters birthday, 12th March 2023 I got my first tattoo, a matching tattoo with Victoria. It is super meaningful to us both. I’m very lucky to have such an awesome bond with my amazing sister, so why not make the most of that and …
#86 – Enter in a Food Eating Competition I didn’t think it would be so challenging to find a food eating competition in the U.K. I had to go down one hell of a rabbit hole, and boy was it worth it. After several months and hours googling, I started looking at food eating professionals …
#72 – Ride in a gondola in venice A city built on the water. What a beautiful city it is. We were lucky enough to finish our two week holiday around Italy in Venice, spending our last day there for Lindsey’s birthday. Riding in a Gondola is one of those tourist things you just have …
#76 – See Rome Colosseum One of the 7 wonders of the world. I remember studying the colosseum in history class as a child about the Romans and o course I wanted to see the colosseums because of the epic Gladiator film. All key reasons why this made my life bucket list when I was …
#20 – Fly a Plane I always take my birthday off each year to relax, do an activity, or travel a new place with friends, so this year I decided to tick another one off the bucket list. We turned up at Tatenhill Aviation in Burton-on-Trent after a love night in a near by cottage, …
#7 – Buy a House I can’t believe I can now say I’m a home owner! It’s always been one of those things that I haven’t been too bothered about, but that feeling today of knowing that’s our home, very surreal, and fantastic. Before I came back to the U.K. after travelling and living in …
#11 – Go Parasailing After having the luxury of going paragliding in New Zealand along with a bungy and sky diving, Parasailing made the list as I loved the idea of doing this off a boat, another adventure activity to try in my lifetime. Lindsey and I decided to book a last minute all inclusive …
#62 – Set a Record in the Guinness Book of Records Most users to complete a remote 10km in 24 hours. With over 25,000 people who ran it. Future advise. It’s actually pretty easy to sign up and look at breaking some records, as I found you actually need some skills to do this. I attempted …
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#4 – Fall in Love I’ve always been happy by myself, I’ve never wanted to force a relationship when I wasn’t ready or with the wrong person. I did not think the person I’d fall in love with and have the most incredible relationship with would be a girl I had the biggest crush on …
#22 – Go up the Shard I wanted to have a couple of items on my bucket list that I always wanted to do in the U.K. I’ve been very fortunate and done a lot in the U.K. already seeing loads of great cities and a lot of famous landmarks, this I had not done. …
Who We Are? #60 – Start a Fire Without Matches When Googling my ideas for what I wanted to do in my life I can’t tell you why I stumbled across this one. I saw it and just thought it would cool. I’ve never been interested in being the next bear grills, living like a …
#50 – Go to a Yoga Retreat When writing my bucket list I’d recently spent time with a friend who was a big fan of yoga, we even did a couple of home yoga practices together. The reason why I liked it and put it on the bucket list list, was because I liked the …
#89 – Go on a Fox Experience Ever since I was a kid watching The Animals of Farthing Wood, I loved the Red Fox. My great Grandma Lucy passed away when she was 99 years old, and I always remember seeing foxes at her apartment when we use to visit. I was given a miniature …
Who We Are? #1 – Take a Massage Course I’ve always been told I was good at giving massages. Loved giving them and wanted to improve my massage giving skills Due to Covid this got delayed several times, but finally got this booked in and completed. Easy to go online and find, ended up going …
#49 – Take a Fly Boarding Jet Pack Flight When looking at really exciting activities or adrenaline based activities I came across Jet Pack Fly Boarding and I just had to add it to the list. Google took me to Wyboston Lakes, a company called JetLev, only 40 minutes away so with things opening up …
#52 – Complete a Triathlon I am absolutely delighted to have completed a Triathlon / Half Iron Man 70.3 miles in 6:36h. The idea originally came from conversations with Gareth and Josh just general chat about ultimate fitness challenges. Triathlons always appealed to me but not being a cyclist at all I knew it was …
#17 – Wing Walking A couple of years ago my Auntie Caroline said she was really keen to do a Wing Walk…. stand on the outside of a plane???? For her 60th birthday!!!! I said I was game, and that was that, I always knew I wanted to do it and on the bucket list …
#30 #30 – Acheive My Ideal Weight (90kg) 26 weeks ago I weight 106kg (16.6 stone) and I now weigh 89.9kg (14.1 stone). My Weight story: I am so proud of losing 2 and a half stone in the last 6 months and would like to thank everyone who played a part in supporting me. …
#48 – Learn How to Play Chess Practice makes perfect. I started learning chess about 6 months ago, and although I am a long way off being a great Chess player, I can now play. 🙂 I did everything you would expect to learn how to play chess. – A dummies guide to learn the rules. – …
#39 – Do a Public Speaking Course I spend a lot of my time at work presenting and speaking to a wide variety of people in different levels of seniority. I’ve never really had a problem with addressing large people, but I’ve always known I could improve. I think this bucket list will take …
#41 – Take a Pottery Class A day after being let out of Lock-down, we reschedule a beginners pottery class at Bourn Pottery (https://www.bournpottery.co.uk) with mum for her birthday present. This was a simply lovely Thursday evening, a nice roast dinner at the Willow Tree, followed by two hours of pottery, an insight into this …
#45 – Go to Therapy I have always recommended therapy as a way of dealing with trauma or just a space to try and become more happy within your own skin. I wanted to do this because I felt like a hypocrite recommending something I have never tried myself. I was also really keen to …
#47 – Ride a Horse ’I’ve always thought horses to be such beautiful creatures, whilst being absolute beasts, scary animals if stood anywhere near the back of them. I have a memory through photos of being about 4/5 years old riding my mums cousins horse and I never really did it again.In my head it …
www.armourgeddon.co.uk #42 – Drive a Tank An absolutely stunning day in September, to drive a tank! I can’t think of anyone I would rather of done this with than my Dad. He loves his history, war films, war books, and Grandma told a story of when dad was a kid he said he wanted to …
#57 – Make Dad, A Dad Cake As a kid I have always had the fondest memories of dad making really awesome birthday cakes. When I was Googling bucket lists, make a cake was on one, which got me to thinking, I don’t remember Dad ever having a cake made for him. For his Birthday …
#54 – buy a coffee for the person behind me On the fourth attempt, I finally completed this good deed. I would encourage everyone who reads this to go out of your way to buy a coffee for the person behind you. I really enjoyed this selfless good deed, the adrenaline you get from asking …
#38 – Take a Yoga Class This forms part of bucket list number 50 – go to a yoga retreat and something I’ve always wanted to give a good go. I thoroughly enjoyed this session, it wasn’t very testing but incredibly relaxing. Being incredibly inpatient and not really knowing how to switch off. I felt …
#85 – Have my palm read There is a lot of scepticism around this one, a lot of people either think it’s all complete crap or a complete scam. I am so glad this was on my bucket list, a great experience. I was in London seeing a friend it was incredibly difficult to find …
#35 – Make your own wine Making my own red wine I am very happy with the results in the end, a nice fruity red with a bit of punch to it! This is another one off the list which highlights my impatience, this took me a while to get the right equipment, purchase the …
#84 – Try Acupuncture This is definitely one of the most random on the list. Looking back, I think the only reason I wanted to try this was because I found it funny watching Kung Fu Panda. I was always intrigued to see how it would feel and what the hell it was all about…… …
#79 – Visit Stonehenge The Ultimate Historical Mystery! When I told people about visiting Stonehenge people react very very differently, the top comments being, ‘they’re just some big rocks in a field’ & ‘you can’t even touch them any more is it worth it?’ In my opinion, it was incredibly worth it and is a …
#10 – Send a Message in a bottle This has been one of my favourites so far, a completely random thing I don’t think I would ever do unless I was wrote this bucket list. So we put a message out there in the universe today. I have no idea if anyone will ever reach …
#61 – Plant a tree I always imagined planting a tree somewhere on a hillside so I can see it grow in a picturesque way. Covid changes things. A very kind offer from my good friend Chloe has lead me to ticking this off earlier than I thought. She’s always wanted a lemon tree as …
#64 – Discover something you never knew about your grandparents If you are reading this now and you are lucky enough to still have your grandparents around, go ask them to tell you something you never knew about them? If sadly they aren’t present and you’re lucky enough to be able to ask your parents, go …
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#97 – Make your own chocolate bar Originally writing this I imagined a trip to Cadbury World……. Due to COVID this changed my plan here, relatively easy to do and I’ll add to this as I’d like to make milk chocolate also. Reason why this was a fun one to tick off because one of …
The Bucket List #18 – Make a cheese Before COVID 19 I imagined this being a really cool one to tick off the bucket list. Go to a cheese factory, see how they really make it, taste some funky arse cheeses and learn the science behind it. For my 30th my Auntie, Uncle and cousins …
If I were to go back I probably wouldn’t put this on the list. Learning just how inpatient I am with one jigsaw getting the better of me. Completed it. Job done.
#31 – Get out of debt My debtI was about £5,000 in debt, in denial and about to spend more money, only occasionally admitting it to myself. My relationship with moneyI don’t give a shit about money, if I want to do something I will go and do it, if I want a beer, I’ll …
#58 – get ordained Well, I thought in a different time I would obviously be asked to officiate a wedding. So line up ladies and gentleman I can officially marry people. I am a minister. I would love to have the honour of joining a wonderful couple in holy matrimony. Surprisingly easy to do, I’m sure …
#59 – Feed a Homeless person I am very fortunate and grateful I was born into such a loving stable family. I always try very hard to show how much I appreciate this. Throughout my life I’ve never really had much interaction with homelessness or known anyone who has been in this situation although being …
#93 Learn How to change a tyre Learning how to change a tyre should probably be something I know how to do, you know just encase. To say I am someone who is not very practical or a handy man would be a massive understatement. I hate things like this, I really can’t be bothered …
#96 – Hold a plank for longer than 3 minutes Googled fitness challenges and this appeared, so on the list it went. After 4 attempts I have held a 3 minute plan. I think it’s great to achieve, however, it didn’t feel as challenging as I thought it would be. Definitely feels like a tick …
#56 – write a letter to my future self Inspired by my good friend James Ward. One of my best friends had written a letter to himself when he was 20 and recently opened it at 30. He said it was incredible to look back and remember the exact situation he was in, the room, …
Big Dog – 6th april 2020 #29 Name a star 1558996 – Aries is a star that has now been renamed to Big Dog – 6th April The star’s astronomically verified position is: right ascension 2h 8m 6.92sDeclination 12 10′ 34.94″magnitude 11.4280000 I’ve always thought naming a star would be really cool. I read somewhere once, there …
#99 write a bucket list I just turned 30 on the 6th April 2020, in a time of confusion across the World. This provided me with time to reflect about how fortunate I’ve been in life and what else I’d love to see and do. I Googled how to write a Bucket List. I love …