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Page 30 Your Bucket List. Get on with it!
A bit blunt? Maybe, but life is short. This is a new monthly article in Female Focus dedicated to kicking you up the bottom to make sure that you get the most out of life before life gets the most out of you, and that all of us, young, old or in-between, get the most out of this amazing playground that we live in. The Costa Blanca.
By Fiona Jennison
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So what is a Bucket List and where does the expression come from? You will probably guess that it comes from the concept To Kick The Bucket. Slightly depressingly yes this expression probably comes from dying; more specifically hanging and suicides. But ironically it has turned into an expression that we use when we wish to accomplish, achieve or experience good stuff before we meet our maker. I am going to give you a jumbled up list now of things that most Brits prioritise (according to the Daily Mail) on their personal bucket lists. Your job is to put them into the correct most wanted order. It’s not a game if you google it before you try it by the way.
Have a holiday home abroad Learn a new language Go on holiday to the Maldives Buy a house
Swim with dolphins Drive Route 66
Ride a hot air balloon See the Egyptian Pyramids Go to a casino in Las Vegas Visit Venice
Go up the Empire State Building Go on a cruise Go whale watching Climb a mountain Go up the Eiffel tower Learn an instrument Work in a different country Float in the Dead Sea Write a novel Drive a racing car
Ok so I can’t give a prize for that because some of you will have googled it, and we don’t have space for the answer… and ok, I tricked you. They are all in the right order. So most of you have ticked number one off, if not number two....
On my bucket list, and I say this without any desperation, at all, and I mean this (a dinner out once in a while and another pair of hands to hang out the laundry would be nice) would be to meet a good man. (Don’t get me wrong I have met one or two, over the years but a new one would be nice). So to this end, I use an App. It is called Tinder. Many of you will know it. Although some of your partners won’t know that you know it.
Anyway. Imagine my joy when I connected with someone on Tinder who invited me to do something on my bucket list as a first date! No, don’t be silly he didn’t come round and hang out my laundry. He offered to take ME PARAPENTING.
So, we connected online. Had a virtual giggle. And then he invited me to come fly with him. I checked out his website, and my diary. My diary was empty. His website looked very cool.
So I took the day off work, and drove to Valencia. We met (not in the intended meeting place, but I blame the crazy 4 laned roundabouts in Valencia for that) and when I finally parked in his vicinity and was met by a very convincing version of his photo on Tinder/Facebook (very cute) off we headed to the mountains, 40 km away, with me boldly transferring to his car, his eyes implying that my knees were steering more than he was. I prayed for more focus when he was flying.
We arrived at a kind of heli pad for fellow parapenters at the top of a gigantic mountain. Next my hot date got the kit from his car, and dressed me up (yep, bit early for kinky stuff I thought too) in a flying suit, and told me to strap on (steady on) the kind of knee and elbow pads my 6 year old uses for roller blading. This was in conjunction with him laying out of an awful lot of worryingly skinny string that appeared to be attached to a comedy version of Action Man’s Parachute in super trendy colours. I was half expecting to see a picture of Elsa on it.
At this point I may add, we could see various versions of my date (other men, no women at all) floating around in the sky, at peace, and in sporty and geographical heaven.
Next Carlos buckled me next to him via a contraption that reminded me of a kids car seat but … buckles everywhere. You know what I am saying. We were like Chinese twins joined at the hip and some of the moves were more comedy than sexy as we prepared to take off.
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