15) Watch five live sports you've never seen

Water polo

No one is sure of the exact origins of the game of water polo but one things for sure, teams probably kept things simple when they first started playing. There certainly wasn't the M25 to screw up your travel arrangements and make the opposition late.

My final game to watch (you're thinking this is the fourth you've written, how can it be the final one - it is, I haven't actually written the first one yet, sorry!) takes me to Watford to watch the men's waterpolo team.

It looked however that my first ever game was going to end in dramatic non starting fashion as the opposition only had four, then five and eventually six players. But that was still one too short.So one of the spectators donned a pair of Speedos. As you do. Well it meant they could start.

I've only seen people half mucking around in the pool before so to see an actual game being played was almost a treat. Considering I had been to ice hockey the night before it was practically tropical sat up in the stands by a swimming pool! It's seven a side with six players padding around in the pool and a goalie at each end. Players wear coloured caps with numbers on them with goalies wearing red ones. Well goalies are special of course.

And so the action started. I had no one to explain the rules but I kind of worked on them myself. There seems, like basketball, a certain period of time on each offence so the attacking team need to take a shot within 30 secs (I think!). After a goal is scored or goalie saves (or there is some infringement I couldn't understand) then the players all swim off to the other end of the pool. And that bit I loved. The sound of that rhythmic swimming across the pool was lovely. It was almost hypnotic. Then they'd start after each other again.

The ball would be passed around the team - trying to find someone in an open position to be able to take a shot. It looked, like in defence you could pretty much do anything, really get stuck in and if you get the ball out of their hands, so be it. When you've played a non contact sport all your life, then it comes as a bit of a shock! And we aren't hands off but er this was much, much closer.

And they did swing the ball around, and took some great shots, really tactically opening up the space. And Watford commanded from the start but then Beckenham started to come back into it. Well they needed some time to warm up. But Watford were starting to turn around their fortunes and were looking to get another win under their belts. And they didn't disappoint, taking out the game 13-10.

It was good, easy to watch but actually something I'd love to have a go at myself. With my knees it looks like something that might be easier to play and a heck of a lot of fun. I can certainly do the ball throwing bit ok I guess!

In the thick of the action!

39) Get my watch fixed

This may seem a little mad or a bit of a cop out. It's not honestly!

Well if you think it is then I'm sorry, hopefully will make sense.

When I went travelling to Australia in 2001 I had a fab Casio Baby G watch. I needed something practical and waterproof for all the excursions and mad things I'd be doing. My younger sister kind of sent it my way but mainly as she's a watch fiend, owed me money and that was her repayment. Didn't matter, I was happy.

I wore it all over Oz, but one night at a netball game it parted company with me. Yes, you have to take jewellery off but it left the bag I had left it in. Gutted.

For a time I made do with an £8 Winnie the Pooh watch - hey it had clouds that lit up. My goddaughter loved it! But that eventually conked out too.

Fast forward a few years. In 2006, my boyfriend (now husband) and I had a weekend away in London. It was a few weeks before my birthday and somehow we ended up in the Casio shop as he needed something for his watch. But it wasn't. It was to buy me a replacement Baby G.

Soooo happy and I've lovingly worn it. So much it needed a new strap as the other discoloured. And one year he got it reset when it went all funny. Then the battery died. About two years ago.

I've missed it. Timing how long it took me to swim lengths, when I started running how long it took me. Just to have a practical watch than to wear my more expensive, smart one every day.

It was only a battery. And it's fixed, and it's proudly back on my arm and been timing going on runs! How did I leave it so long? Matters not. We're together again!

30) Have a weekend away

Well when you have two small children, getting a weekend away with adults is a truly rare thing and probably only achieved when I've had some netball kit to wear!

So, it was a definite one to strive to and in the end I thought, what better way than to have a girlie weekend to celebrate my birthday!

So off to Center Parcs we went, as a proposed team of six (although one of my mates came down ill just the day before and had to pull out) with much fun and madness on the agenda and no entry to the villa unless carrying a bottle of champagne.

I toyed with looking at us having a break in a town or city and staying at a B&B but actually the beauty of being at Center Parcs was we had our own little pad, en suite rooms and fab leisure facilities. While we were miles from the car park or the main facilities, through some cunning, walking and cadging lifts, somehow I managed to avoid having to use the land train all weekend. Thanks ladies.

Rachel looking 'pensive' - in explorer mode

My friend Ellie and I rocked up early on the Friday and made great haste to get to the Subtropical water paradise. It didn't disappoint. We discovered the outdoor pool and almost congratulated ourselves on being outside in a pool in January. And then I found the white water rapids. OMG. Basically fling yourself from the warm pool into a cold waterfall and then get yourself swept along a path of water up and down and over and around - so much fun! We screamed and laughed and said 'again, again' like kids. I only went on it twelve times over two days. Brilliant. We also took in water slides and had general merry fun. And then brought the rest of the crew into the madness the next day!

We drank, we ate, we laughed, we sang, we had a ball. We saw a rabbit outside our apartment, and as one of my favourite animals ever I was touched he came along too. I made sure I made a note of the wildlife I'd see for him.

Bunny comes to say hi!

We also made sure that the weekend embraced a day of J'ness (see no 38) but I'll talk more about that in another blog post. We had four or five of the foods I hadn't eaten, so that list is pretty much there as well and we started on the 10 languages for hello and goodbye but need to complete that (where is the list Melissa!)

On the Sat night we took in our Just Jhoom and the whole J ness in food, drink and costumes. Much late night drinking and chatting too.

Sunday morning spent watching Aussie Open tennis final and naturally being hungover ate lots of rubbish food. And I still have that wedding dress to fit into! More sit ups I think!

All in all it was a fantastic weekend and I can't thank the girls enough. Well I might if more of them got onto twitter and helped me with the 400 followers! And while I missed my babies the cuddles were great when I got home.

The message board - with a few to the housekeeper too!

The pad of 40 year old madness!