My Bucket List

My bucket list is not full of grand activates like go into space (I would like to by the way) but things that mean something to me on a personal level.  They are simple and achievable, hopefully.

• Walk into town ... Completed 10/04/2014 It may seem stupid seeing I only live around a mile from Cardiff City centre but it has been years since I walked into town. My problem with crowded public transport and crowded situations in general and the fact my wife is in a wheelchair led me to use taxis in the past. Of course, my weight problem didn’t help. I honestly believe I couldn’t make the walk into town without a major struggle before I took up my healthy eating plan. It was a nice walk made more interesting by having to dodge masses amount of pavement works along the route. By walking and coming home on the bus, which is free for the wife, plus one carer or husband meant we saved around £11 on taxi fares.

• Eat a Linda McCartney veggie sausage ... Completed 08/03/2014 Surprise, Surprise I liked it. I won't rush out to buy them but if they were served to me again I would eat them.

• Switch on my Mobile phone and use it and post a message on Facebook and become one of them ... Completed 05/05/2014 Well I have entered the 21^st century and have a mobile phone if only a hand-me down from the wife. I can switch it on which is the first hurdle out of the way and I made my first phone call and found out how to access Facebook. I forgot to log out of the wife’s Facebook so my first post and picture was posted in her name, a schoolboy error. Done the obligatory selfie now the need to find the wire to up load it onto my laptop. All I need now is some people to phone.

• Go to the cinema with my wife (something we have not got around to doing after 30 years together) ... Completed 02/06/2014
• Take a trip to Canada
• Write a book
• Publish a book
• Take the train to London I completed the trip and found out 1st class is the way to travel. 6/7th/12/2018
• Take a trip on a Paddle steamer to Lundy Island
• Have a party I hate the idea
• Shop at a Lidl and Aldi ... Completed 23/2/2015
• Make a homemade pie a real pie
• Visit and have a pie at the Pieminister restaurant
• Get my weight below 15st
• Be a good husband and accompany my wife to a family party ... Completed 27/5/2017
• See a show in London In December 2018 we made the trip to London and the Old Vic to watch 'A Christmas Carol'. 6/12/2018
• See a show in Cardiff … Completed 17/08/2018 The wife and I went to see the musical "Summer Holiday"
• Overcome my mental issues
• Walk across the Cardiff Barrage ... Completed 23/06/2014 A great morning down Cardiff Bay which included a walk across the barrage with the wife.
•  Have family photo with my wife and sons
• Go for a sit down meal with our sons it is so hard to get the three of them together.
• Take a holiday with the wife
• Visit the isle of Scilly
• Become debt free
• Do a sponsored walk/run
• Go to the gym
• Eat 10 things on my not to eat list
• Go to bingo
• Take a ride on the Cardiff Bay water bus ... Completed 21/05/2014 It was a lovely day to take my first ever trip up and down the River Taff on the water bus. Worth £6 of a return trip I am not sure. I wouldn't call it a tour, but its a great way travel into Cardiff Bay from the town centre. One of the boats take a wheelchair so on a trip to Cardiff Bay with the wife I surprised her with a trip up to the Bute Park stop.

• Visit and shop at the Riverside Market ... Completed 18/05/2014 A lovely Sunday walk down to Riverside Market. I was small then I was expecting but interesting all the same. Here was lots of local food on offer, pricey yes but you have to pay for quality.

• Take the train through the Channel Tunnel

I will be probably adding a few more