When I Grow Up…

When I Grow Up I’m going to..

Some people have a dream job, some people want to be famous, some want to achieve great things but not me. I don’t remember ever having dreams or ambitions
So I thought the internet is a great place to start. They might not be traditional life goals, some might not even be achievable but they are ideas and ideals.

I want to:

• Grow (at least) half my family’s consumption of vegetables and a third of our fruit
• Keep goats
• Keep bees
• Make cheese
• live in a country where marriage can be recognised as a legal contract of partnership between any consenting adults separate from but no better or worse than a religious affirmation of such a union
• Be a mother
• Be competent in conversational Irish
• Be able to read sanskrit
• Publish an article in an academic journal
• Publish a serious monograph
• Trek in the Himalayas
• Ride the trans-Siberian railway all the way from Moscow to Vladivostock
• Take my wife to Africa – Morocco, Tunisia, Uganda, South Africa, Botswana, Egypt… maybe climb Mount Kenya
• Get a completely different degree
• Learn to lay a proper Cornish hedge
• Walk in the Andes
• Convert my house to a point where we sustainably generate enough electricity to run at least our laptops (not as small as it sounds)
• Swim in the Pacific Ocean
• Sky-Dive
• Walk the whole Cornish Coast path
• Volunteer on a regular basis – probably in befriending or advocacy (poss. for citizen’s advice or similar)
• Pass my driving test, and get a HGV licence
• Learn to hotwire a car
• Go to Jordan, and Baghdad
• Watch the Northern lights from inside the Arctic circle
• Plant a tree for every one of my friends
• Create a scholarship fund
• Own a bespoke suit
• Get and keep up to date mountain quality first aid qualifications
• Find out what 9-5, 5 days a week is really like..
• Be my own boss

To be continued..