Another Things to Do Update

It’s been a little while since I did an update on here of my Things to Do list.  So I’ve been through it, added some more stuff people have suggested, and updated the file on my Things to Do page.  The next thing waiting to turn green on there is Karting, which is booked for next Saturday – bring it on!

THINGS TO DO PAGE

And of course, as always, I’m happy to hear suggestions that you have for my list – I won’t promise I’ll add them but I’m always looking for new ideas.

Also, I wanted to share this book with you…

Can’t be Arsed by Richard Wilson (published by Portico) is subtitled “101 things NOT to do before you die“.  It’s in amonsgt the pile of books from The Book People that is currently sat in our kitchen at work.  And for obvious reasons it was one that I just had to have a look at.

Very funny and well written, it’s basically a Bucket List but with reasons why you shouldn’t bother doing them… and the reasons are pretty good I have to say!

And yes, there are things in the book that are on my list.  Take this one, for example…

3) Shower in a Waterfall

People who dream of doing this probably imagine it will be exactly like that Timotei shampoo ad, in which an impossibly beautiful blonde girl washes her already-quite-clean hair in a waterfall and then flicks her golden tresses this way and that, in super slow-mo.

It all looks so tempting, refreshing, natural and clean.  It’s all faked.  The film has been tinkered with – it’s never that sunny – the water has been dyed blue, the shampoo is Gale’s Honey, the girl’s in a cage in a wetsuit.  It’s not her hair, they used a stunt hair double, or it’s made of mashed potato and Plasticine; she’s not really there, there is no waterfall, she’s a mannequin, it’s all done in a studio in Elstree and we don’t actually exist – we’re a figment in the mind of a silicon-based life form who sits at a desk in an office in Clerkenwell.

There is supposed to be a real-life waterfall like the one in the Timotei ad, in a place called Millaa Millaa in Queensland, Australia.  I don’t actually believe this – the ad men must have made it up.  But it doesn’t matter which waterfall you try to shower in; you’ll be freezing cold and your thighs will go all blue and blotchy.  Not only that, but you’ll have left the soap or the shampoo in your rucksack and you’ll have to step out of the shower to get it and then in the process you’ll probably slip on some moss or slime and crack your elbow, maybe end up with a couple of grazed shins and skinned ankles.  And after all that, you’ll find that one of your ‘mad’ travelling companions has stolen your clothes for a joke then videoed you on their mobile and by the time you’ve attempted to dry yourself on some leaves (causing a rather alarming burning sensation) your wobbling bulk is being viewed worldwide on YouTube.  Now that could happen.

Probably not a book you’d buy for yourself, but if you know someone (that’s not me!) who has a list of things to do before they die, then this would make a very good present/stocking filler/secret santa gift this year.