To 25

Five more added:

1. Visit Scandanavia
2. Learn a foreign language
3. Visit another continent
4. See the Northern Lights
5. Watch Citizen Kane to the end
6. Achieve Grade 4 Piano Forte exam (after a break of about 25 years since grade 3 taken)
7. Take an A level
8. Drop from 40" to at the most 36" waist
9. Read every Wallander book
10. Swim in the North Sea
11. Visit Paris
12. Write a Haiku
13. Attend a Tai Chi lesson to see if I enjoy/find it useful
14. Do a fund raising event for charity. (Not sure what yet)
15. Get a tattoo on my right arm
16. Go on a road trip exploring Britain with no destination in mind
17. Take a mini break on the Yorkshire coastline during winter
18. Have no outstanding debit
19. Buy or rent a place of my own
20. Get a photograph published in a photography magazine
21. Reach 1000km on my exercise bike (currently at 5)
22. Complete at least one more 60 point module towards my OU degree
23. Write a piano composition
24. Create a piece of video art
25. Read more about postmodernism so I can concisely explain what it is

Reaching 20

I've now got the following:

1. Visit Scandanavia
2. Learn a foreign language
3. Visit another continent
4. See the Northern Lights
5. Watch Citizen Kane to the end
6. Achieve Grade 4 Piano Forte exam (after a break of about 25 years since grade 3 taken)
7. Take an A level
8. Drop from 40" to at the most 36" waist
9. Read every Wallander book
10. Swim in the North Sea
11. Visit Paris
12. Write a Haiku
13. Attend a Tai Chi lesson to see if I enjoy/find it useful
14. Do a fund raising event for charity. (Not sure what yet)
15. Get a tattoo on my right arm
16. Go on a road trip exploring Britain with no destination in mind
17. Take a mini break on the Yorkshire coastline during winter
18. Have no outstanding debit
19. Buy or rent a place of my own
20. Get a photograph published in a photography magazine

Found quite a few websites to inspire me:

Life of Pie - 40 before 40

Bleeding Espresso

40 things to do before I'm 40

Forty things before 40

Further tasks

Thought of a few more:

1. Visit Scandanavia
2. Learn a foreign language
3. Visit another continent
4. See the Northern Lights
5. Watch Citizen Kane to the end
6. Achieve Grade 4 Piano Forte exam (after a break of about 25 years since grade 3 taken)
7. Take an A level
8. Drop from 40" to at the most 36" waist
9. Read every Wallander book
10. Swim in the North Sea
11. Visit Paris
12. Write a Haiku

Got a few more

1. Visit Scandanavia
2. Learn a foreign language
3. Visit another continent
4. See the Northern Lights
5. Watch Citizen Kane to the end
6. Achieve Grade 4 Piano Forte exam (after a break of about 25 years since grade 3 taken)
7. Take an A level
8. Drop from 40" to at the most 36" waist

The beginning

I reach forty in 2 1/2 years so have decided to draw up a list of activities and achievements to reach before then.  So far I have:

1. Visit Scandanavia
2. Learn a foreign language

Hopefully I will have drawn up a list of 40 by the end of the month.