I actually hate the saying “kick the bucket”  However I have decided that I am going to write down my ‘bucket list’ so I can keep tabs on it and make sure I’m heading in the right direction to dream fulfillment.  Like a business plan one needs to know where the target is in order to aim in the right direction!  I’ve just got one those emails that do the rounds: “Dance like no one is watching you, sing like no one is listening and live every day like it’s your last!”  Well I haven’t got enough money to do that or I would be spending every week in a different country with a margarita in each hand!  However these things make me think, analyse, fret and realise my mortality and impending doom.  So rather than do my accounts (for I would NOT be doing those if this were my last day)  I am planning my future wishes so I can hopefully attain them before something sideswipes me on a wet Wednesday morning!  I have no doubt they will change and be added to because I have an enthusiasm for adventure but I guess we will all leave this earth with a full in tray.  Probably the only thing I will regret.

• Earn more money (kind of necessary to fulfill the expensive dreams I have)
• Win the lottery (Not sure if this is allowed on a bucket list but its going on mine!  Think positive and positive will arrive)
• Travel to as many countries as I can.
• Travel write. 
• Drive across America in a ’67 chevy Impala.
• Go to the carnival in Rio de Janeiro (and dance like no one is watching me)
• Own an apartment in  midtown Manhattan.
• Have a one to one with the Dalai Lama (see if he knows his stuff)
• Walk the coast of the Britain (not when it’s raining though)
• Get a body like Beyonce (better keep going to the gym then…)
• Interview Karl Pilkington (and squeeze his head)
• Write a book ( see 4 above – need the Dalai to still my mind and teach me focus)
• Be able to work from anywhere in the world. 
• Meet as many interesting and entertaining people as possible (travel a must then)
• Eat at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant. 
• Have dinner on a beautiful beach served by a butler.
• Have an Aston Martin for at least a day.