1. Learn to Crochet
2. Learn pottery on a potter’s wheel
3. Make collages
4. Take a food photography/food styling course
5. Work at a bakery and learn to make bread – learnt to make bread, the bakery part will come soon, 2020 and still at it
6. How to paint in Watercolours! – my children gifted me a 6-lesson class and I loved it, 2022!

Places and Experiences

1. Travel around Africa – Began, with Ghana, Sierra Leone is next on the list. I’ve done Benin Republic, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda!
2. See the Aurora Borealis
3. Experience zero-gravity
4. Sleep under the stars. Preferably on the Masai Mara
5. Go to South America, specifically Bahia, Salvador
6. Go skiing
7. Spend most of a summer on a tropical island, by the beach
8. Go to Berlin  – Done, January 2011 , and a few times since
9. Go snorkeling in the Caribbean
10. Walk in the dunes – Done, in Noordwijk (12th June, 2011) and in Wassenaar (26th June 2011). Even saw rabbits and fuzzy caterpillars!
11. Go punting in Cambridge – Done, then added to the list; May 2011
12. Tap maple sap in the land called Canada
13. Stand on the ‘equator’, preferably in Kenya where, within a few feet, water circles in both directions
14. Live in Nairobi, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Edinburgh
15. Go to the German Haribo factory
16. Visit Scandinavia – Done, Copenhagen
17. Take a hot-air balloon ride
18. Sleep for a whole day
19. Win the lottery
20. Tell the world the difference between Macaroons and Macarons!
21. Jet-set for a couple of weeks
22. Do the Nieuw Jaar’s Duik – Done, 1st January 2011 @ Scheveningen!
23. Ride in a Limousine Done, July 2013, New York
24. Drive Ride in a convertible – Done, 12th June 2011

For my Health and Wellness

1. Have a healthy relationship with food – On it…with special thanks to Geneen Roth of Women, Food and God for her deep and helpful insights
2. Plant roses
3. Sing in a choir & learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill – planning on mastering the guitar!
4. Teach someone to read
5. Spend a whole day reading a great novel
6. Build my own house. Maybe a tree-house…

Leave a Legacy

1. Write down my personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time – Done, 7th October 2010: ‘Exploring, learning and sharing stories that encourage &  inspire’.
2. Write my books: Done, 18th March 2025: ‘Chop Chop Cookbook is out in the world!
3. Start my parenting blog
4. Say no, when I mean no….not yes – Working on this every day, progress being made
5. Become a coach and mentor – Working on this every day, progress being made
6. Own & run a creative school for children
7. Host a workshop on ‘Finding your passion’
8. Send a message in a bottle
9. Donate money and put my name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park – Done, The Boy’s Quarter’s Project Space, Port Harcourt
10. Make my family tree

Of Food and Drink

1. Taste real S’Mores – Done, September 2010: Had real graham crackers with jet-puffed marshmallows and hershey bars!
2. Make a croquembouche. Done, Christmas Day 2013, Nigeria
3. Make/bake/ice a cake with fondant
4. Create ‘colourful’ cookies
5. Learn to make real Chinese Fried Rice