I don’t even officially start my 101 in 1001 until tomorrow, and I already feel motivated to get on and get some things crossed off my list!

1. Pass my driving test: We have put me on the car insurance (starting mid-June), so that I can begin practising my driving again with a view to taking my test later this year. I failed it a few times last year and decided to take a break after the wedding to generally de-stress and get over the nerves a bit! Now seems to be the time to get back on the horse.

24. Complete my scary dental treatment: I’ve got a date for the first stage of the dental work & will book the time off at work tomorrow. I’m due to get sedated at the beginning of August – it’s further away than I would have liked, but at least it’s this summer!

52. Take advantage of the free theatre tickets for young people & go see something at the REP: This is a brilliant scheme run by the Birmingham REP Theatre, which allows 14-26 year olds free tickets on Friday nights to see any show. James, Carly & myself are due to go an see Once On This Island on Friday 5th, a reggae Caribbean twist on the fairy tale story The Little Mermaid’. It should be interesting!

81. Paint the master bedroom, 82. Paint the second bedroom, 83. Paint the living room/dining room: We have been to FOCUS today and picked colours, measured all the rooms we want to paint, and worked out prices to do everything we want – we just have to get the landlord to give us the go ahead to do it :-). Hopefully it will be a good summer project for us. At the moment we love our house but the decor is terrible – the living room is painted with 5 different shades of lilac, all not quite the same as each other – but not different enough to be done on purpose as a feature! The bedrooms aren’t much better, with peeling wallpaper, again painted rather randomly! Hopefully we will repaint the walls, ceilings & all the woodwork in all four rooms. It’ll be quite a big job but we have all summer to do it, and no holidays planned