Week 2 - now for something completely different!

Week 2 and I thought I'd give you some of the things I already have on my list. Thanks for reading the first blog by the way - who knows maybe some of you will join me on some of these 'interesting' challenges or even try them yourselves.
So, let's see:

• Riding the mile long zip wire across Bethesda quarry
• Watching the sunrise
• Sleeping out under the stars
• Paying for someone's shopping in the supermarket queue
• Sailing a boat
• Helping out at a homeless charity
• Living on a pound a day for a week
• Write a poem and get it published
• Ski
• Swim at midnight
• Turn up at an airport with a weekend bag and go to wherever the next available flight takes me (I guess within a certain budget, unless anyone fancies sponsoring me!!!??)

See what I mean? Quite a random bunch of stuff and of course that's just a sample!

Back to this week then! - week 2 has been all about writing to someone I'd never contacted before. This was one of my original ideas and incredibly the choice has become so obvious.

Just before Christmas I attended my uncle's funeral and met up with my second cousin who I realised was the only remaining relative left on my mother's side of the family. My mum died when I was 21 and then my maternal grandparents and gradually the links to my ancestors were being lost and I didn't really acknowledge it. Until December in the crem when it occurred to me that I didn't know the early stories from my mum's family and that 'cousin Sallie' was my only link left alive.

So I've written to Sallie this week and who knows maybe in my 50th year, I'll get to explore my family tree a little? After all family is important and so are landmark events. I figure they're both about understanding your world a bit better. I'll let you know how I get on.