I have never

I was watching the Graham Norton show the other Friday. Yes, it's a primetime a show. No, I don't get out much these days. Thanks, for pointing that out.

Yeah, so I'm not hugely proud to admit such a screen habit, but I get home late after my shaking class on Fridays (will explain that particular activity in another post) and it's good easy-watch telly to eat dinner and zone out to. Anyway, I'm protesting too much. let's just move on.

The guests were Keanu Reeves, Marcus Brigstocke and Emilia Fox and at one point they played 'I have never'. For which Emilia's answer was, 'I have never cooked a meal'. She just doesn't cook apparently. Apart from the three-course dinner complete with recipes and glossy photoshoot that I saw in a certain women's mag a while back, presumably. I felt a little betrayed (and very irrationally so) that she may not be the poussin-rustling-up domestic goddess that she came across as in those very pretty pictures. Mainly because I work for said magazine but, again, let's move on.

Am now worried that I'll be sacked in some breach of contract for bringing my media company bosses into disrepute for suggesting something we printed wasn't 100 per cent accurate. I've probably made it ten times worse by flagging it up here too. Thank god for no one reading this blog.

MOVING ON.

It got me thinking though. As a late adopter there are *many* things I have never done. Obvious ones like climbing Everest or finding a cure for cancer don't really count. It's the more mundane, run-of-the-mill ones that I'm a talking about. Like...

I have never:
* Eaten a Big Mac, or indeed anything on the McDonald's menu that isn't a cheeseburger or quarter pounder with cheese. And since I have no idea when I last ate a McDonald's (the 90s?) I don't think this is likely to change anytime soon.
* Ridden a racing bike
* Owned an iPod (don't think a first-generation nano counts - especially as I bought that when they were about to be discontinued)
* Seen countless classic films: The Godfather (any of them), Titanic, Taxi Driver, Withnail and I
* Read any Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, DH Lawrence, Oscar Wilde
* Passed (or taken) a driving test

Am thinking that I may need to devise a definite list and start late-adopting some of these. Not the Big Mac. Or Titanic.

But I think perhaps I'll get a more comprehensive list together and start ticking things off it. Goal setting. I like it