50 Things an Accomplished Modern Gel (& Guy) Should Be Able to Do:

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50 Things an Accomplished Modern Gel Should Be Able to Do:

( ) Toss a pancake.

(x) Make a birthday cake without stress.

(x) Make a soufflé, meringues and chicken stock.

(x) Understand the scoring of the major sports (with some leeway for cricket).

(x) Swim.

(x) Ride a bicycle.

(x) Drive a car - both manual and automatic transmission.

(x) Eat dinner alone in a restaurant.

( ) Play poker and backgammon.

( ) Grasp the basics of at least one other language.

(x) Predict what manner of wine most grape varieties will bring you.

(x) Open a bottle of champagne.

(x) Host a dinner party.

(x) Sew on a button and shorten a skirt.

( ) Thread a sewing machine.

(x) Have several dishes you can cook without looking at a recipe.

( ) Know when to clap during a classical concert (and when not to...)

(x) Waltz, or at least know how to be led by a man during same or similar.

(x) Write a letter of condolence and know what to say to someone recently bereaved - the first time you see them after the sad event.

( ) Know how to act around a famous person.

(x) Have at least one restaurant where you are known.

(x) Be on genial terms with your neighbours, and with the people in the corner shop.

(x) Remember to pay your bills on time and very rarely run out of toilet paper or milk.

(x) Make a store-cupboard dinner at 10pm after a bottle of wine or several.

( ) Shuffle a pack of cards without dropping them.

(x) Enjoy being alone for a whole weekend.

( ) Knit.

(x) Go to the cinema alone.

(x) Go to the theatre alone.

( ) Have a birthday book and use it.

(x) Say no.

(x) Say yes.

(x) Read a newspaper most days (and always at the weekend...)

( ) Serve a tennis ball.

(x) Set your video recorder.

(x) Work a digital camera.

(x) Surf the net.

(x) Send emails.

(x) Make pastry.

( ) Ski.

( ) Recite at least one poem by heart.

(x) Have legible handwriting.

( ) Balance a chequebook.

(x) Know roughly how much is in your current account at any time.

(x) Pay your credit cards by direct debit.

(x) Remember to put the rubbish out.

(x) Recycle.

(x) Grow fresh herbs on your windowsill.

(x) Know how to grow something from seed.

(x) Chop an onion correctly and get the thin papery skin off a clove of garlic.

(x) Light a barbecue (gas and regular).

(x) Hold your drink.