Ideas for fun things to do in life

[Deminism]

My friends and I are putting together a list of fifty fun things to do before we are fifty. Nothing expensive. Things like swim off the English coast, dance all nught, learn to make cocktails, etc. Any ideas? All thoughts appreciated. X

Join a choir

Get out of your comfort zone.
Go somewhere you've never very been ( city break ? )
Do something you've never done ( experience ) eg ballooning
Taste something you've never tried ( tasting session, unusual restraunt, )
Look like you've never looked ( personal shopper, haircut, pro makeup demo)
Feel different,( spa, massage, guided meditation)

It costs just under a hundred pounds, but there's a place in the lake district where you can walk with wolves, actual wolves! Wolves! I love wolves, so it's something I'm going to try to get as a present for myself next year because it's my idea of heaven.

Spend a night or two in a treehouse - I did that for my 60th at this fab place near Machynnlleth.

Go to go ape!
Cruise
Laser tag
Paint balling
Masquerades ball

Are you in the UK? Go to electro works by angel train station. They have a rock night called voodoo rock London - range of ages go there. They have different room, cheap alcohol. They're famous for the train carriage bar and they also have a ballpit there!

Boxing day dip. Bonus points if nude.

Go sailing/hire a canel boat

Go wine tasting at one of the british vineyards

Visit a british island

Go a whisky or gin distilery

Festival either visiting or volunteer for oxfam or an other charity there

Day rave or sunrise yoga class

Dune buggy or off road 4x4 experience

Go to a casino for the night

Paddle boarding

Gorge walking

Long hike and stay in a bothy

See stars from mountain peak

Charity fundraising

Volunteer at an animal shelter. Could be in europe. Spain greece and romania are full of them.

Do any of you have any skills that could be of use to those in need? Thinking of a workaway type thing.

Long distance road trip or train journey.

Cycle the hebredean way or another long distance cycle route. France to Italy is fab.

Run a marathon or even tough mudder or colour run type thing.

Michalin star restaurant.

Make your own Album of you and your friend singing your favourite songs. Either in a proper studio or not.

play pooh sticks on a local bridge.

have a duck race in a stream. (shit typed dick raceoriginally, maybe a different sort of fun)

build a den in the woods/garden.

build marhsmallow and spaghetti towers.

go to the seaside and build an enormous sandcastle.

make soap box carts and have a fun day 9maybe for a charity you all like)

"Lucylugs" your combatting fear as a group for each member is such a beautiful idea.

Aw- how do you bold?

Learn to make a signature cocktail
Complete a duolingo tree
Run a 5/10k
Come dine with me competition between friends

Have a Night at the Opera (ENO tickets from £12)

And a Day at the Races (you can go to some race meetings free, just dabble on the Tote if you want to. But people and horse watching, moving from the pre-race paddock to the stands to the winners' arena is the best bit anyway.)

Run a marathon/half marathon/10k/5k depending on fitness levels. Learning to run is great fun.

Join a choir

Learn a new dance style

Do something you've always meant to do but never got round to. Last year I went up Monument in London. I've wanted to do that since I was 18 but never got round to it until I was 52. Great views and it only costs about £3.

Best thing I ever did when I turned 50 was have a year of doing something I'd never done before every single day for a year. Could be tiny - from trying a new cafe or new drink, walking down a new street etc to major things like learning a completely new skill that led to a brilliant work project I'd never have been considered for before.

Adopt a pet from a rescue centre

Go for a walk with a llama (google it, available at loads of locations throughout the UK).

Go to Go Ape!

Go to a cookery class.

Go to Airkix (?) - indoor skydiving at Milton Keynes, but I think there are wind tunnels available throughout the UK.

Walk over the O2.

Go to an Escape Room.

Go to a bra fitting.

Go to the horse races.

Try an animal experience at a zoo.

Live without your phones/internet for a week/fortnight.

Form a team for a local pub quiz.

Go wine tasting.

Go to the Sky Garden in London - it is free, book in advance, and offers similar views to the Shard.

Visit every street/station etc mentioned on the Monopoly board.

Volunteer at somewhere that interests you, and commit to at least a year.

Run or cycle for charity, the feelgood buzz is amazing

Throw somebody a surprise party

Sledging, did it for the first time this year!

Go skinny dipping

See the northern lights

Get dressed up and go out for a very expensive once in a lifetime meal

Learn . new skill

Go surfing
Rock pooling
Afternoon tea in a posh hotel
A craft workshop
Axe throwing

There are a nunmber of Alpaca Farms in Britian now and some of them do walks with Alpacas. In Northumberland there is Barnacre Alpacas (barnacre-alpacas.co.uk). My only link with them is via Instagram. Their herd is so cute.

www.barnacre-alpacas.co.uk

I am shamelessly stealing this idea and making my own list.

Travelling on a sleeper train
Watch the dawn and the sunset on my birthday
Have a birthday party with jelly & ice cream, play pass the parcel

Learn a new crafty thing or learn to play an instrument

Go to a women's circle

Each write a poem and share them with each other

Volunteer together

Do an escape room. I bloody love escape rooms!

Oh I want to join! My goal is to always pick the option that will provide a new challenge. Also, to always take the stairs...time to get fit for all the stuff I want to do in the rest of my life.

Bake a showstopper.
Learn a new craft eg felting.
Go to a Royal Horticultural Show (Chelsea!)
Go to an agricultural show
Go to a yoga class
Take little ones to the park and play with them.
Clean a beach
Take part in a sea watch (recording species)
Go fishing
Go whisky tasting on Islay.
Attend a highland games.
Attend sung evensong somewhere beautiful.
Volunteer on an archaeological dig.
Go on a proper picnic.
Pick wild berries and make jam.

I started my 50 before 50 this year too and have had great fun already ticking off a few...lots of the things above are on mine but a few of the others include;

• donate blood (I know...rubbish that I haven’t already)
• learn to knit
• make jam
• go to May Day morning in Oxford
• eat pad Thai in Thailand
• visit Stonehenge
• leave a painted stone
• do a treasure hunt
• drink 50 different cocktails (not in one night obviously!)
• go glamping

Hire a beach hut for the day
Plant a tree