Fun goals and tasks for 2019

Hello there!
Happy New Year to you!  I hope you had a wonderful Christmas-tide and new year.  I did and I am mighty sad that the holiday is stampeding towards its conclusion.  I don't go back till Monday but CBC is regretfully back on Thursday which I am pretty gloomy about.

I seem to get through weekends recently with very little forward planning (although performances and rehearsals have featured greatly!) and I would like to feel that I have achieved more.  Hazel has been a great inspiration on this front with her blog posts.   I thought it might be nice to have a few aims for this things I might achieve during my weekends. I don't want to make this a huge list as that is a bit daunting so here are just a few fun things I'm planning.

Piano: Learn Chopin's Waltz in C# Minor.
I have dabbled with learning it before- as a teen and a point last Summer but I would really like to learn to play the whole piece confidently and, if possible, from memory as to be able to perform it to the children at school for example.

Composing/arranging:
Last Summer, one of my aims was to arrange 'Another Day of Sun' from Lala Land for my flute quartet which I did and it was super to have something to arrange and satisfyingly finish it. Alas, the quartet is not now a quartet so we are yet to perform it but I still did it.  Therefore, instead, I would like to arrange Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter for my flute trio.  I would also like to arrange Clara's theme from Doctor Who and Princess Leia's theme. from Star Wars because I love this tune!

Flute:  Learn Hypnosis by Ian Clarke properly. for flute and piano. 
I was lucky enough to be taught by Ian Clarke when I was at university, at a time when not so many people had heard of him- in fact, I am honoured enough, in the composer's words, to be player no.11 in the world of his piece, Zoomtube, but I've never really learnt one of his easier pieces, Hypnosis.  I would like to learn it.
If you would like to hear some of his amazing pieces, you can hear extracts on his website:  http://ianclarke.net/page3.html 

Visit English Heritage Properties:
When CBC and I visited Audley End House in September, we joined English Heritage as it was only an extra  £28 compared to our admission price of £20 for 15months of membership and we thought it would be good to join EH and visit some interesting historical places for a year.   We had a lovely time there and on the 30th December, we visited Dover Castle which was wonderful and put us £22 closer recouping our £48 membership cost- that means £6 more to recoup! 
So, I've been perusing the EH guide and have decided I would like to visit the following places that are achievable from where we live:

• Deal Castle  
• Down House
• Walmer Castle
• Eltham Palace
• Framlingham Castle
• Lullingstone Roman Villa.

You can find more out about these places here.  You never know, we may also visit some other places too!

My image from the Doctor Who exhibition

Doctor Who cosplay:
I've had a few little Doctor Who dressing up tasks that I have had kicking around for a while and I would like to stop procrastinating and just get on with them:
The first is finish skirt for Clara Oswald cosplay for Sleep No More.  I bought a great scalloped skirt with an incredibly similar pattern for about £4 and a blue fabric pen to colour it in. I wish, oh I wish, I hadn't bothered as it is an incredibly tedious process which is going to take hours than it has already but I've started so I must finish!!!

 Also, to complete this outfit, I wish to Finish the Sleep No More t-shirt. I bought a navy t-shirt and a pleated navy top in a charity shop for £3 and £2.75 respectively which I want to try and turn into a one t-shirt  with a collar so I really just need to find a way to get on with that!

I have some Shrink plastic and I would also like to make a couple of sweetie brooches for a Romana City of Death cosplay I've had the elements for for years but not actually put together so I would like to make that happen too.

Visit an Escape Room:
I've been hearing about these fun escape rooms for a while now and I think they sound like great fun so I would like to do one of these.  Actually, this may be a bit of a cheat since my sister has already talked about us doing one of these at half term.

Walks:
Walk along the front  in Southend.  I've heard from a friend that it is a lovely walk along from Leigh-on-Sea to Shoebury so I'd like to try this.

There are, of course, many things I would like to do in terms of resolutions like GO to BED at a reasonable hour, finally commit to one church instead of dithering over it so much and ensure I avoid buying as much as possible in plastic but more on that another time.

What fun intentions might you have for your weekends?
xx