End of Spring Update

[glinda]

Although, honestly, it has been cheerful summer here for the last fortnight. The weather has been glorious. (We have a joke here that summer in Scotland is a fortnight in June, but this year it appears to be a fortnight in May instead.) I've managed to finish another 4 things since my last update and another couple are so close to being done! I've been trying to get two things a month done this year with varied success, but I do seem to have started two things a month since my last update so hopefully progress will continue. With any luck, the sunshine will continue and I can get some more of my outdoor challenges done, or at least more books read as the uptick in sunshine these last couple of months has led to me reading substantially more books...


No. Items Completed: 20

Completed
Donated Blood
Tried Bubble Tea
Went on a picnic
Grew some herbs
Tried 10 different types of tea
Did the 30 day song challenge
Wore nothing black for a whole week
Attended an academic conference
Gave up alcohol for a month
Read a book in Gaelic
Eat at 10 new restaurants
See a ballet
Gave up alcohol for 3 months
Read 10 Non-fiction books
Make 5 new soups
Take Vitamin D daily for 3 months
Saw an Opera (Carmen)
Visited a distillery
Travelled on a Steam train
Donated 20 books to charity or bookswaps

Progress Made
Expand my Gaelic vocabulary by 100 words (30/100)
Do the 50 books poc challenge (20/50)
Ask 20 friends to suggest one film, and watch them all - (watched 2/20)
See 26 films I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet (17/26)
Go to 25 gigs (12/25)
Watch a movie from every year I've been alive (13/33)
Listen to a new artist every month
Bake something new every month for a year
Listen To The Observer’s 50 Albums That Changed Music (7/50)
Watch 25 documentaries (21/25)
Read more books than I buy over the course of the challenge
Read 10 books of poetry (7/10)
Finish 10 craft projects that are lingering about half-finished (2/10)
Grow some vegetables - planted & sprouting hopefully
Complete the A-Z travel challenge - (2/26)
Visit 10 Museums/Galleries I've never visited before (8/10)
See at least 7 UNESCO World Heritage sites (1/7)
Complete a big cross-stitch project
Enter 5 writing competitions/Submit 5 short stories (1/5)
Watch 5 children's films not in English (1/5)
Read 10 new-to-me SF Masterworks (1/10)
Donate blood another 5 times (1/5)
Eat at another 10 new restaurants (9/10)
Cook with a new ingredient every week for a year
Contribute to 5 collaborative sound projects (1/5)
Do the 12 films poc challenge (1/12)
Learn some basic programming (started a Javascript course)
Read another 10 non-fiction books (2/10)