TWENTY FIVE BEFORE TWENTY FIVE.

Happy New Year! 
WOW. 2014 is here.

Last New Year's Day we were discussing resolutions as a family over lunch and I decided to make twenty five goals to achieve before turning twenty five. These are all things that I want to try/make/do anyway but I do well with deadlines and I knew a list would help me commit. Quite a few have been ticked off already but I now have just over a year and a half to finish the list. I actually mentioned this in one of my first posts but below is the full list (well done if you make it all the way through!).

one. Start a blog

two. Visit America

three. Graduate

four. Take more photos using my camera rather than my phone

five. Have a dinner party

six. Take up ballet again

seven. Travel around Europe

eight. Make a quilt

nine. See Taylor swift with my sisters

ten. Read 25 books* I've made specific lists below if you're interested

eleven. Watch 25 films* 

twelve. Knit a scarf

thirteen. Write a poem

fourteen. Learn how to play a song on the piano

fifteen. Learn how I play the guitar

sixteen. Have a herb garden

seventeen. Get a pet

eighteen. Run a mile without stopping

nineteen. Make a video

twenty. See a play

twenty one. Relearn my GCSE French

twenty two. Drink a whole cup of English tea

twenty three. Learn all the countries and capital cities in Europe and where they are

twenty four. Learn a letter from the bible off by heart
twenty five. Visit the Harry Potter studio tour

BOOKS

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R.Tolkien
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
1984, George Orwell
The Catcher and the Rye, J. D. Salinger
The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Pilgrims Progress, John Bunyan
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Lord of the Flies, William Golding, 
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Goldem
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, Mark Twain
Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
Saturday, Ian McEwan

FILMS
The Graduate
The Godfather
Pulp Fiction
Schindler’s List
Casacblanca
Saving Private Ryan
Cinema Paradiso
Braveheart
The Big Lebowski 
Trainspotting
A River Runs Through It
Roman Holiday
Psycho
6th Sense
Manhattan
Midnight in Paris
The Descendants
Silver Linings Playbook
Liberal Arts
Untouchable
Delicacy
Paris, Texas
The Shop Around the Corner
The Guardian
Top Hat

* These are slightly random selections. I have tried to include both books and films that I wouldn't necessarily read or watch but that always seem to be on must-read/see lists and ones that I have been meaning to get round to but just never have.