Things To Do Before You're Eleven And Three Quarters

I found this list on the BBC's Newsround site.

Happily, and no doubt thanks to having had a child for a father, I was fortunate in that I completed most of the activities within the recommended timescale.

However, this has not stopped me from wanting to do every single one of them again before I am 45 and a half*.

(And then every year thereafter.)

As far as bucket lists go, this is gold:

• Climb a tree

• Roll down a really big hill

• Camp out in the wild

• Build a den

• Skim a stone

• Run around in the rain

• Fly a kite

• Catch a fish with a net

• Eat an apple straight from the tree

• Play conkers

• Throw some snow

• Hunt for treasure on the beach

• Make a mud pie

• Dam a stream

• Go sledging

• Bury someone in the sand

• Set up a snail race

• Balance on a fallen tree

• Swing on a rope swing

• Make a mud slide

• Eat blackberries growing in the wild

• Take a look inside a tree

• Visit an island

• Feel like you're flying in the wind

• Make a grass trumpet

• Hunt for fossils and bones

• Watch the sun wake up

• Climb a huge hill

• Get behind a waterfall

• Feed a bird from your hand

• Hunt for bugs

• Find some frogspawn

• Catch a butterfly in a net

• Track wild animals

• Discover what's in a pond

• Call an owl

• Check out the crazy creatures in a rock pool

• Bring up a butterfly

• Catch a crab

• Go on a nature walk at night

• Plant it, grow it, eat it

• Go wild swimming

• Go rafting

• Light a fire without matches

• Find your way with a map and compass

• Try bouldering

• Cook on a campfire

• Try abseiling

• Find a geocache

• Canoe down a river

* June 17 2012

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