The List

1. Organise a fund-raising ball for a charity of your choice for 500 people. (Katie G) IN PROCESS

2. Organise a fundraiser for a charity of your choosing. (Tracey C)  COMPLETED (sort of)

3. Once a week, find somebody you don't know, and set out to make them laugh. (Craig N) IN PROCESS

4.i. Meditate for a minimum of 10 minutes a day. IN PROCESS

ii. Write one song for each month that you are 29 and record them on Garageband. IN PROCESS

i. Complete the 26km 'Coast Track' bush walk in Royal National Park with myself and any other willing participants. This will take 2 days. (Jacob S)

5. Write one song per month for the 12 months of your 30th year, inspired by one of the challenges you've undertaken in that month. (Bart D) IN PROCESS

6. Organise a "family friendly" gig preferably in school holiday time where we can come as a family to watch you. SECONDARY CHALLENGE - get one of your songs in the charts. (Jason B)

7. Sing outside your comfort zone, by joining a gospel choir OR performing in a musical OR singing an aria busker style. (Rosalind T) COMPLETED

8. Volunteer at a school to help out a reading group in a kinder classroom OR Volunteer at a children’s hospital for the afternoon to play guitar and sing for the ward. (Heather D)

9. Circumnavigate Sydney Harbour (from Watsons Bay to North Head, Manly) under your own steam by boot, boat, or bike. (Melanie S) IN PROCESS

10. Pass your driving licence tests. (Mum & Dad) IN PROCESS

11. The River Dee is a tributary of the Derwent River in Tasmania. It flows into Dee Lagoon. You will drive us there. AMENDMENT - due to time and money restraints, I reserve the right to propose this becomes "Dee's mad, bad Tassie weekend dash and splash". You, me, Mel, some cheap air tickets to Hobart, one hire car, one great cleansing leap into the lagoon. (Kat C) COMPLETED

12. Scrapbook a "This is my life" book. (Sister Eileen Mary) IN PROCESS

13. Be able to prepare a meal for each night of the week from memory. SECONDARY CHALLENGE - hold a dinner party involving one or more of these meals. (Carla B) IN PROCESS

14. Compete on a TV game show. The show may be of your choosing, but there must be a competitive element! (Ben P)

15. Learn to (confidently) ride a horse. Attend one private lesson at Glenworth Valley. On another day... come on a 2 hour trail ride with me. Then... accompany me on an overnight ride at a time and place of your choosing. Giddy-up! (Jaimi C) IN PROCESS

16. Ride [a bicycle] 90km with me from Sydney to Wollongong and raise money for MS Australia! (Carly H) COMPLETED

17. Re-organise a meal with Father Harry Cotter (wherever he is) and have all the original people there that was at the first one, and cook the lasagne. (Heath P)

18. Learn to break dance with aplomb. (Cassie G)

19. Read "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Cormac McCarthy. [sic] (Tim F) COMPLETED

20. Join a local theatre group and take part in a production (a Shakespearean one would be fantastic, but not obligatory) OR make a mixed media artwork to encapsulate your love of Yeats. (Meredith S)

21. I would love to have you post a song of yours on Youtube. (Bernie H)

22. Go on a mini-busking tour - play 2 capital cities and 2 country towns and sing for your supper! (Kim T) IN PROCESS

23. Royal National Park, near camping area/car park, there is a cliff there. You must disregard signs (no climbing, no jumping) and jump off cliff into water. Climb back up rocks and your task is done. (Emma M)

24. Create a protest song warning of the dangers of climate change. Once completed, give the song to an envinromental charity to put on their website. (Karen S-B) COMPLETED

25. (Kimm & Rondalyn) see Challenge 4

26. (Lucy Buttenshaw) see Challenge 4

27. (Kim Charpentier) Give blood. (self-challenged) COMPLETED

28. (Rebecca Ashton) Learn conversational Japanese. (self-challenged) IN PROCESS

29. (LCD Soundsystem) Learn more about my parents. (self-challenged) IN PROCESS