October - A Month in Review

13 Recommendations 

The Return has arrived, but I've managed to avoid it so far. We are watching The Blacklist, is anyone else? It's excellent

13 Recipes:

I'm getting back into the swing of things, so this will come next month.

13 Meals Out:

Another for the list. Not a great experience though!

13 Random Acts of kindness:

Another good month, but I'm fast running out of ideas.

13 Letters:

I've a cunning plan. They are going out in Christmas cards! Clever eh?

13 Blogs per month:

10 months done.

13 Family days out:

2 done, 2 future ones booked and a possible for this weekend.

13 New Foods:

It's too soon to talk about it.

£13 for Charity per month:

12 donations done, so one more in the next 2 months and this will be sorted

13/30 Autographs:

Challenge Completed!

13 (minimum) Postcrossing:

Challenge Completed! 

13 (minimum) Geocaches:

Fuck

13 @Replies or Retweets from famous people:

Challenge completed!

Trying something for the first time - Chocolate Bacon Soda

I like chocolate.

I enjoy bacon.

I love fizzy drinks.

Bringing all these things together should be the perfect drink, right?

Turns out, in actual fact, something being fizzy and tasting of chocolate is possibly the worst thing in human creation. Even Ethan wouldn't drink it, and his favourite drink is Apple and Mint! 0/10

Trying things for the first time - Strawberry Fanta from Thailand

I have had this for a while but I've been putting it off, largely because I was expecting it to be disgustingly sickly. Surprisingly, it wasn't that sweet at all.

It was very red, like Tizer used to be in the 80's before they took out all those tasty chemicals. And is smelt like medicine that had a fake strawberry flavour added to stop kids spitting it out in doctors faces.

But to taste, it wasn't bad. It tasted of strawberry flavour rather than strawberries but that is hardly a surprise. I finish the whole glass and while I probably wouldn't have it again, it wasn't unpleasant.  6/10

Tomorrow I'll be drinking Bacon Soda. I can only hope that goes half as well...

Family Trip Out - Tranmere Rovers vs Bristol City

We never made it to Tranmere vs Swindon earlier this year due to the snow, so Ethan and I will be going to this bottom of the table clash between Bristol and the Super White Army.

Also joining us with Katie (watching her first ever match), birthday boy Harry, Sarah and Michael. Should be a decent match.

Family Trip Out - Beauty and The Beast

Despite last years less than impressive 'Knights of the Round Table' pantomime, we have decided to once again give the Port Sunlight Players a chance with this years effort. It's not very festive, but at least Ethan will know the story this time!

http://www.gladstonetheatre.org.uk/jswhatson.shtml

Random Act of Kindness - Becoming a bone marrow doner

I thought the next natural step from giving blood would be becoming a bone marrow doner.

So I went to http://www.anthonynolan.org/What-you-can-do/save-a-life/Online-application.aspx and filled it all in and... I'm too old. Which was a bit of a kick in the chaps.

I can still join the register, but need to do it at the same time as giving blood.

For more information, look here - http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bone-marrow-donation/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Random Act of Kindness - Giving Blood

I used to give blood but haven't done it for years. So I'm going to again.

I went to http://www.blood.co.uk/ and found my local blood letters are 0.3 miles away and the next session is Saturday 9th November. So I signed myself and Katie up for it.

You should sign up too, you never know when you might need a bit of the red stuff back.