And

Look I did this today

Am I getting credit?

Recap of a recap

So having updated where we are so far I believe these are still outstanding -

Balance a book on your head and walk for 20m
Teach John to tweet
Make something from weaving willow
Learn and sing let it go - Esther will help
Attend a life drawing class

All others are in progress or complete

No rest for the wicked ….

March

30 Watch a classic film without falling asleep
31 Build a clay bread oven as per the River Cottage bread book and use it to bake a loaf 
(I think this should be built somewhere close to those who suggested it - somewhere South East of Bristol!)
32 Learn to create an origami crane (the bird).
33 Get something published  - this can be in any magazine / journal / blog etc
34 Go to a Baltic state for a mini break
35 Learn to say “Hello, my name is Mike.” in Japanese, French, German, Portuguese Icelandic and Italian.  (Given the forthcoming holiday one of these could be substituted with Russian


HALFWAY………..

End of Feb update

Well here I am five months in and how busy have they been.

What have I achieved in February.

Finished the mooc on forensics which was both educational and entertaining the husband who stopped a car telling that a man had shot his wife when he leaned through the window with a gun was found to have been lying and was found guilty of murder.

I got that right.

I have begun the juggling now able to do a reasonable sequence of ten with two balls.

I cooked mum a meal on our wedding anniversary consisting of Tomato Salsa with ciabatta and black olives, followed by English matured fillet steak with potato wedges parboiled and fried to crisp up with watercress, and for afters a variation on Cranachan, double cream whipped to soft peak with added toasted oats and generous helping of fresh raspberries. Oh and a great bottle of Rioja.

I visited the site of my 1km botanical survey site South of the main road between Lyme Regis and Seaton on the under cliff rich in untouched woodland. am still waiting for the survey pack itself.

I made a solid oak bird box now installed on Rachel's fence. A 25mm hole perfectly executed and thanks to Isaac and Esther for their help.

Have looked at life drawing but don't fancy joining the hen party that are invited to join a course in Leicester.

I've booked for Mum and to have aMichelin star lunch at Bath Priory thence to the bookshop in bath for my "spa" treatment thanks to John and Rcahel's Xmas present.

We have booked a train journey from Moscow to St Petersburg but it's taken us 4 hours each to fill in the request for a visa form, that has to be hand delivered to some god forsaken place in Barbican EC1 so the two visas will have cost us at least £250 quid, assuming we get them at the first attempt.

If that does not count we are planning an Axminster to Exeter train as we have not been to Exeter for at least 40 years.

Oh and I have got this far with building a house of cards. See below.

And finally today we have Ben coming to attempt the loom bracelet.