Looking back at the last six months brings many emotions. Pride/ disappointment/ enjoyment/ pain but most of all a slight sense of achievement. Out of the 30 challenges that I set myself I managed to tick off most of them but have left myself a list of a few that got away:
Learn to Juggle/ Learn an Impressive Magic Trick
Purely due to having the coordination of a one legged weeble who's been on the sauce I found it nigh on impossible to master juggling two balls, let alone three. I vow to continue but i fear it may take some time. With the magic I was also scuppered by having such slow hand speed that no trick I could possibly learn looked any good.Paul Daniels I salute you.
BenchPress 100k
Ridiculously under estimated how heavy 100k is and underestimated how strong I am. End result not wanting to lose my body from the neck down and taking time to build up to the lift with my personal trainer Phil Stubbs.I'll be back.
Learn Basic sign Language
I'm actually doing ok with this but didn't want to rush it as I wouldn't want to undervalue a really difficult, important skill by cack handily attempting it on a stage.....plus I had trouble remembering most of the signs!
Learn More about the Middle east
To be honest a challenge that will probably take me the rest of my life to do!Didn't really narrow the challenge down enough to make a decent effort.Rest assured I have a couple of thick books to work through that should see me up to speed on at least the Israel/Palestine conflict before I'm forty!
Hold a Friends Baby
Selfishly, none of my friends who live in London have managed to spawn any offspring yet and it became a race against time and money to get down to my friend Harry in Ilfracombe to see his lovely new son Seth. Hopefully i will get down there soon and will post a picture of this challenge being completed.
Charity Shop Pub Crawl
One of the least impressive but likely to be the most enjoyable of challenges-anyone who's up for it I will be gathering the troops before the end of the summer to enjoy a little pint drinking/ charity shop visiting fun.
As you may have gathered by yesterdays facebook I have now finally managed to complete my skydive. I tried but failed miserably to look really non impressed in the photos and ended up looking like a slack jawed idiot. Good crack though.Photo below as well as snaps of the three course meal I treated Georgina to.
So as they say, that is about that. I want to thank everyone who actually sat down and read this blog, was really surprised by the amount of people who got behind me while I was doing it. Fankyoo!
Big thanks to Dai, Georgina, Tim Naylor, Gantie, John Ullyet, Ailwyn Cole, Chris Hatton at physical graffiti, Dan Lewis and everyone who came down to the show at the Memo.
Time for me to crack onwards and upwards then and actually have a stab at this writing game. I've chatted about it enough but still procrastinate and moan too much when I should be sat here typing and hopefully making someone take notice. Hope that if you enjoyed reading this you will continue to follow my articles as I upload them and thanks again for your time.
Naylor out. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
