Some readers will recall I had the hair-brained idea of coming up with fifty things to do in this year of being fifty... well the truth is I just could not think of fifty things that I really wanted to do, and I couldn't see the point of adding loads of things just to make up the numbers.  So here, in no particular order, are the things I have come up with...

• Go to the cinema once a month
• Climb Snowdon
• Climb Scafell
• Have afternoon tea at Betty's Harrogate
• Read a leisure book a month
• Fly a kite on a beach or headland (ht Tim Presswood)
• As a concession to all things girlie, the only one I plan to make, have a professional manicure (I have an event in mind for which this might be appropriate)
• Write and deliver a conference paper at the 'Baptist Doing Theology' conference
• Learn to play, properly, at least one piano work from among the stuff I already have
• Raise funds for a local charity in Glasgow which was founded by The Gathering Place and it's 'mother church'
• Help my kid brother mark his fiftieth next autumn!

The plan is, by writing them down I am more likely to do them, as I have some sort of accountability.

Actually I could make fifty different cupcake designs... ;-)