10 Things To Do Before My Escape:

10 Realistic Things To Do Before I Finish the PhD and Leave England Forever…(in no particular order of preference)

1. Go to Glastonbury

2. Watch a good Macbeth, Shakespeare play

3. Attend a Carmen opera

4. Go to the Proms

5. Dine at the top of Tower 42 (the Natwest Tower)

6. Go to a decent Indie gig (next time Feeder comes to town)

7. Visit Portobello Road Market and haggle for some accessories

8. Go punting in Cambridge

9. Club at a Soho Gay Bar

10. Join a whisky club

If I complete this entire list, I will be happy for life (for now).

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10 Unrealistic Things To Do Before I Leave England Forever…

1. Sleep with a hot girl and quickly dump her/get dumped afterwards

2. Sleep rough on a city street, for a week

3. Set fire to the nearby noisy warehouse that annoys me and my flatmates

4. Pelt eggs at an Animal Liberation Front demonstrator

5. Swim the width of the Thames, just for the hell of it

6. Run across London Bridge naked

7. Buy some cannabis from Brixton and sell it to the highest bidder in Kensington

8. Dye my hair orange and look like a Japanese tourist

9. Get a tattoo and look like a jail bird

10. Go on the Xfm Camden Pubcrawl and get wasted

If I complete any of this list, I might be scarred for life