# 19 – Write a children’s book.

So I was slightly dreading this one. I went for a picture book (minus the pictures - we all know I’m no artist!). As I am sure you are aware you cannot submit stories to publishers without an agent, so instead I sent it to an agent. Are they going to read it? Probably not, but this way I feel I can cross it off the list. At some point I will share the whole story with you but for now the below synopsis will give you some idea:

‘Have you seen a hopping hare anywhere?’ is based around a hare named Geoffrey who cannot find his son Harvey. As he goes to look for his son, he finds many helpful animals along the way, who offer their support. Geoffrey however, lacks focus and often gets distracted. This results in him losing not only his son but several other animals too. Thanks to a helpful fidgeting field-mouse, Geoffrey is finally reunited with his son Harvey, who had secretly been preparing a surprise birthday feast for his dad!

# 23 – Wear a mask for the whole day

I did consider cheating and doing this on Halloween, when I could have blended in with more of the public, but I thought better of it. The mask was a simple purple eye mask (I think based on a bat – but at £1 I didn’t care too much!). I put it on as soon as I woke up, perhaps a mistake as taking a shower in a mask is not advisable! My day was quite chilled but you really have no peripheral vision in masks so I cannot lie, at times I ‘wore’ it on my forehead. My trip to the local Co-Op was interesting. As with the Santa hat experience people were terribly polite, just the odd second glance. The mask overly matched my coat and it did appear as though I was trying to dress like some sort of superhero, perhaps a little embarrassing considering my age and the fact that I’m 9 months pregnant! However, after leaving the Co-op, we had to return to hand in a wallet we found in the car-park – heroic?!?

Update

Firstly I must apologise for my absence. I feel as though I have somewhat neglected my challenges and experiences over the last few months. I attribute some of this to being heavily pregnant (although I must confess to having a very neat little bump and well behaved baby!) and some of this to pure laziness!  With less than two weeks until D Day and the realisation that post baby the challenges will become even harder to complete I thought I ought to review what I have completed and what is still left to do. So here’s the list:

 

I have begun number 12 – 'Learn to juggle', but must confess it is not coming naturally to me, so am still working on it! There are a some others that I feel I should be able to complete pre-baby so unless 31 arrives early I hope to cross off a couple more over the next two weeks.

Thanks for your patience and if you want to join me for any of them, just let me know!