List for Living

I've stolen the name List for Living from Helen Fawkes.  This is a list of things I've always thought would be fun to do but never got round to it because there's never time. But now it looks like I might have to deliberately find time for them, because biology doesn't seem likely to gift me with a lot of it. According to google, I've been alive for almost 13,000 days. Wow, that's actually a long time. It makes me feel even more keenly that I've not been wise with those days. So without further ado, here is my List for Living!

1. Save a million battery hens. Since I'm currently just over 10,000, it seems unlikely but hopefully I can keep my fundraising going and raise enough to save the other 990,000.
2. Move to a small place by the sea where I can have rescue animals
3. Holiday somewhere with white beaches, aqua seas, palm trees and colourful fish – DONE!
4. Snorkel with the above fish – DONE!
5. Spend an afternoon in a hammock on the above beach, with a book and a cocktail – DONE!
6. See the Northern Lights – DONE!
7. Visit as many countries as possible – CURRENTLY 31
8. Ride a motorbike – DONE!
9. Abseil – DONE!
10. Write a book – DONE!
11. Hold an exhibition of my photos
12. Experience a sensory deprivation tank – DONE!
13. Finish our garden so it’s beautiful – DONE!
14. Go in a helicopter – DONE!
15. Visit Cairo or Luxor – DONE!
16. Drive a convertible – DONE!
17. Experience weightlessness
18. Run a marathon
19. Go on a foreign holiday where I have no idea of the destination til I arrive - DONE!
20. Visit Auschwitz – DONE!
21. Go on a segway – DONE!
22. Scuba dive and see a shipwreck – DONE!
23. Ride in a hot air balloon – DONE!
24. Visit New Zealand
25. Finish playing Tomb Raider (I started it in 2000!)
26. Visit Pompei – DONE!
27. Swim with wild dolphins – DONE!
28. Visit Iceland and go to a natural hot spring – DONE!
29. Make money from photography – DONE!
30. Fly a plane – DONE!
31. Go to a rainforest – DONE!
32. Fly First Class – DONE!
33. Go caving – DONE!
34. Do a blindfolded drive
35. Drive a snow mobile – DONE!
36. Visit the Berlin Wall – DONE!
37. Indoor sky diving – DONE!
38. Enjoy a feast of cakes and desserts – DONE!
39. See a total eclipse
40. Drive a canal boat – DONE!
41. Work on a nature documentary – DONE!
42. Find a way for my animal rescuing to carry on in my name after I'm gone
43. Learn to streetdance        
44. Go to Pripyat and Chernobyl
45. Learn to play Classical Gas on guitar 
46. See a shooting star – DONE!
47. Get my Blue Peter badge – DONE!
48. Take an IQ test – DONE!
49. Appear on TV, radio and newspaper – DONE!
50. Sit in court for a day and watch proceedings – DONE!
51. See gorillas and chimps in natural environment – DONE!
52. Watch an autopsy – (SORT OF) DONE!
53. Be on Desert Island Discs
54. Watch Hamilton on Broadway – DONE!
55. Float in the Dead Sea – DONE!
56. Do jury duty
57. Convert a campervan

Now you see it...

and now you don't...

Twenty minutes after ringing my dermatologist's secretary, they'd booked me in for 8.20am the next day so I could still get to work on time. Dr Stewart was on holiday that week so the skin cancer nurse, Sue, came in early especially to remove it for biopsy. What an incredible team...I feel lucky to have them. Results are back in time for my appointment on June 10th. If you look closely at the photos, you'll see a reddish spot above the mole in the middle. That was the site of the first recurrence.

Melanoma, you'll be the death of me!

Ho ho ho, you cheeky little imp! You're like a naughty house spider. Just when we think we've put you outside and closed the window, there you are again, just an inch away from where your cancery little brother was back in February.

Except it's not a spider and it's not funny. The fucker is back. Again.

I would love to be proven wrong but another tiny black spot has appeared and is growing rapidly. It wasn't there a week ago and now it's half a millimetre. I will phone my derm tomorrow and she will no doubt take the bastard out on 10th June when I was due to see her again.

My work schedule is very busy up til that point and this bastard can fuck right off if it thinks I'm cancelling shoot days or edit days for it. It's an uninvited house guest and the least it can do is sit quietly until I make time to see to it.

Sorry if you're offended by my bad language. I am sure you understand.