Microadventures

fiona cullinan bodyboarding

A small but growing list of bucketlist and other challenges – click the links for completed ones:

  1. Get three songs playable on guitar 
  2. Round-the-world Google Earth tour
  3. Publish an ebook (two in progress – on dogs and the pandemic)
  4. Learn to read the stars (read and sadly now forgotten Tristan Gooley's The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs)
  5. Learn to draw a rabbit (this may turn into a booklet)
  6. Collect a year's worth of plastic – (two years so far!)
  7. Dance with the Birmingham Royal Ballet – Nutcracker workshop for adults (2019)
  8. Apply for a job out of my comfort zone – (for an NGO in Berlin, a tree charity and a community gardener)
  9. Find all animals on social media called Fiona – Fiona the pygmy goat to Fiona the hippo
  10. Februllage 2021  a collage a day challenge in response to prompts by Edinburgh Collage Collective and Scandinavian Collage Museum. Results at @editoriat.
  11. A night hike in the hills (walk report on Walkspace)
  12. Read more books!
  13. 100-days of the first Covid lockdown – a daily diary
  14. A night walk during new moon
  15. 100 sunrises and sunsets
  16. The hill I couldn't climb
  17. A walk underneath Spaghetti Junction
  18. Sleeping to an escalating world of weird ASMR podcasts
  19. Year-long photo project based on the colours of the rainbow
  20. Catch the dawn
  21. Perform a piece of live art
  22. Learn 24-form Tai Chi
  23. Digitising an old diary
  24. Splits challenge goal / Splits challenge FAIL
  25. Independent toes – flex individual toes on command
  26. Climb a mountain
  27. Country to city solo walk
  28. Return to solo backpacking
  29. Be exhibited in an art gallery
  30. An Insta-fashionista for a month
  31. Birthday surf and bodyboard in Europe's Hawaii
  32. Fuerteventura crater walk
  33. On becoming a Glass Room Ingenius
  34. Get up early for a week
  35. A wild swim and a very long walk
  36. Cornwall Bodyboarding Camp
  37. Nordic walking in the woods at night
  38. Alone in Kings Heath park at night