Your mission: to complete all 50 tasks between 7th June 2016 – 6 June 2017

The Rules

1  You can complete the the tasks in any order.

2 When completed you must:

a) tick the box on the task’s page

b) create or keep a keepsake in the the 50th year box/scrapbook

c) HAVE THE BEST YEAR EVER

1. Learn how to skip
2. Visit The Ritz
3. While in London for The Ritz,  go and see a show you haven’t seen before
4. Revisit learning French
5. Read a book every month of a genre you don’t/don’t often read – June will be chosen by your daughter – August will be chosen by your son.  Write a review in your scrapbook
6. Read your daughter’s 10 favourite books …. in paperback!
7. Cook a three course meal consisting of three dishes which belong to three different cultures.  Rule: there must be something in each dish you haven’t made before
8. Host a MacMillan Tea Party
9. Sign up for a 10 k and run with your daughter
10. Sign up and run the Great South Run
11. Grow your own plant
12. Pick out and plant a vegetable of your choice
13. Bake a cake you never have before
14. Frame a photograph you have always wanted to
15. Go and pick yourself out a new outfit
16. Visit your daughter in Cardiff
17. Visit your son in London
18. Learn 7 – 10 (new) German words a week
19. Spa day with your daughter
20. Try some sort of course with your daughter
21. Watch 3 “classic” films of your choice
22. Visit somewhere in England you never have before
23. Day trip with your daughter this summer
24. On a sunny day:  make your own ginger beer, make a salmon & cream cheese bagel, make banana muffins…..and sit outside and enjoy
25. Change your running route one day
26. Take an arty picture, print it and put in in your scrapbook
27. Buy yourself some flowers
28. Take a dance class with your daughter
29. Start and complete a new sewing project
30. Make croissants
31. Buy some kind of baking machine
32. Make “something” with the baking machine and document in scrapbook with a photo and maybe the recipe and tips
33. This Summer, go to Brighton with your daughter
34. In Brighton, take pictures in a photo booth together
35. DVD night with your kids
36. Buy a physical copy of copy of an album
37. Buy a new lipstick
38. Have a pamper night – use lush bath bomb, light a newly bought candle and use face mask
39. Mum and daughter pamper evening – bake whoopie cakes, eat cakes and watch 13 going on 30 and paint nails
40. On a perfect summer’s day, make a picnic (including all of the traditional stuff) and eat it down the beach with your daughter
41. At Christmas make……yule logs, mince pies and cookies for Santa
42. At Easter make an Easter show-stopper
43. Upcycle/DIY something from a charity shop
44. Go out for dinner and pick something that sounds awesome but you wouldn’t normally pick
45. Write a short story of 1500-3000 words.  RULE: write final version out nicely on lined paper and stick and fold into scrapbook
46. In Lanzarote buy a “LANZAROTE” frame and at home print and put a picture or you, your son and your daughter in Lanzarote in it
47. Buy and use a nail varnish colour you wouldn’t normally
48. Take up swimming on some level
49. Make blog
50. On 6th June on your blog, write about how you found being 50