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Apps to Help You Explore When I decided to spend a whole year exploring the small map I live on, I hoped it would help me slow down, pay attention, discover new places and learn more about nature. Each week I explored a single one-kilometre […] Read »

After the Adventure I love this explanation, by Morgan Hite, of the difficulties of returning home from adventures. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those […] Read »

Not Very Glowing Book Reviews – Blackout Art Sometimes, as an author, you receive glowing book reviews. That is a lovely feeling. Sometimes, as an author, you receive not very glowing book reviews. That is a less lovely feeling. I have been having some fun with my #notveryglowingbookreviews, […] Read »

Shouting from the Shed 119 Shouting from the Shed Hi again, In the last newsletter I started with an impromptu riff about trying to figure out what to get my teeth into now that I’ve finished writing Local. I was touched by how many of you got in […] Read »

Shouting from the Shed 118 Shouting from the Shed Hi again, The mornings are getting lighter, birds are singing again, and life feels good. Now that the dust has settled from launching my book, Local (did I mention that I’d written a book…? 😉) I’m a bit of […] Read »

10500 Days (and almost as many words) “My thoughts first turned to adventure 10,500 days ago today. The idea of adventure for me at first was simple and uncomplicated. It was the prospect of excitement, fun, and novelty that were pulling me forward, and the push of […] Read »