Personal Projects List

Home & Garden

House

  • Get a new kitchen…or at least a new sink and shower fix the tiling ✅ Q1 2022
  • New flooring in en-suite ✅ Q4 2023
  • Paint en-suite
  • Paint downstairs loo
  • Paint wall on stairs

Garage

  • Get tarmac around the drain repaired
  • Hang more hooks for tools
  • Touch up the chipped paint on the garage door

Garden

  • Trim the back patio’s conifers into Minions! ✅ Q3 2020
  • Learn more about creating and keeping bonsai to keep current attempts alive! ✅ Q3 2020
  • Get Eucalyptus tree cutdown ✅ Q1 2021
  • Replace the raised beds (6 x double height with new soil/compost) ✅ Q2 2021
  • Create a flower border and relocate lupins, columbine and everlasting sweet peas into it. ✅ Q2 2021
  • Get other large trees reduced in size ✅ Q4 2024
  • Sort out remaining wild strawberries ✅
  • Clean & Paint fence
  • Weed front borders and re-define edges
  • Fix the overcrowding in the front long border
  • Extend patio
  • Level off gravelled area
  • Relocate 3rd compost bin

Physical & Mental Health

  • Read more by going to bed earlier ✅ routine established and maintained by Q1 2025
  • Create a daily/weekly schedule to allow time for exercise, yoga, creative projects, gardening and household chores
  • Regular yoga routine at least 3 hours per week (1hr ⬆️ on last year)
  • Regular aerobic exercise
  • 10,000 steps a day on average for the week
  • Get back to healthy weight / BMI band

Key for tracking progress:

✳️ Started

✅ Achieved/Completed

❎ Dropped idea

➡️ Carried forward