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Shouting from my Shed: 43 There is so much good news in the world. Useful ammunition against the curmudgeonly complainers at your Christmas dinner. A fascinating look into the world of origami (honestly). Lazy: a manifesto. A randomly selected collection of the ‘Best Bits’ articles from my blog. Different every time you […]...

Shouting from my Shed – 29 Hi again, 👉I am afraid that time of year has come when I try to subtly flog you a new book I have written. Hopefully you won’t notice this if I phrase it sort of like, “if you ever wonder […]...

What Is A Podcast Anyway? Podcasts are everywhere these days (I’m jumping on the bandwagon and releasing this tomorrow). But loads of people don’t know what podcasts are, or don’t quite know how they work. So I hope this answers your questions and encourages you […]...

The Doorstep Mile Book Four and a half years ago I finished writing a book called Live Adventurously Every Day. But it wasn’t quite right, so I shoved in my desk drawer. Since then I’ve been giving talks to audiences all around the world […]...

The Barriers to Living Adventurously A selected list of barriers, taken from readers of my Instagram account (@al_humphreys) I began by asking this question: View this post on Instagram I am interested to find out what might be stopping you from living as adventurously as […]...

A World Tour of Yorkshire The allure of travel differs for each of us. It might be gazing up in awe at the gothic treasure you never knew existed, the kinship of being invited into someone’s home to share a meal, the relaxation of beaches […]...

The Spirit and Energy of Finding Adventure in the Everyday Would you like to Live Adventurously every day? Would you like to live more adventurously? To have more ‘unusual, exciting or daring experiences’, as the Oxford Dictionary defines adventure? To be ‘willing to take risks or to try out new […]...

My Adventure Timeline 1976 – born. Life begins when something stirs and we feel an urge to get started, to head out into the unknown world, even though our existence is currently so comfy and easy. We are, perhaps, never so bold again. […]...

Shouting from the Shed – 37 Hello everyone, I’m back in my shed after a wonderful month cycling around Yorkshire. A highlight for me was interviewing people along the way: I’m having a crack at making a podcast series from them. Here’s what I’ve got for […]...

Some Thoughts after 18 Years of Blogging Way back in the dark depths of time, both the world and the internet was a very different place. These were the days when people would read out website addresses on the radio by spelling out “w w w dot…”. […]...

Living More Adventurously – the Do Lectures One of my favourite speaking events was the Do Lectures in Wales. Here’s my talk, followed by the transcript. Let me ask you two questions. The first: ‘would you like to live more adventurously?’ I don’t mean would you like […]...

Suilven This adventure began with a map. Or perhaps it began with a bike ride – I can’t remember any more. It doesn’t really matter, I suppose, but good ideas do tend to brew when either a map or a bicycle […]...

Shouting from my Shed – 35 Buna dimineata. Here is your latest dose of what I’m enjoying or pondering: Can I begin today by asking for a favour? If you have read (or listened to My Midsummer Morning, would you be so kind as to take 30 […]...

Shouting from My Shed – 32 Hello and welcome to June! Time for evening bike rides, river swims, and sleeping on hilltops… 👉 For years now I have been running a Summer Solstice Microadventure Challenge. Start making plans for some moments of wonder in the build-up to […]...

A Night on a Hill with Friends Problem: Too busy working? Friends dispersed far and wide? No time to enjoy hanging out together? Solution: Meet on a Hill (For more ideas like this, and to make your own microadventures, maybe you’d like to buy the Microadventures book?)...

Shouting from the Shed 22 I’m not a Christmas curmudgeon (although I dislike its ever-earlier beginning). But having to buy presents for the sake of it irks me. The world does not need more pointless stuff (or plastic). I have written a list of present ideas […]...

Shouting from the Shed 21 According to one of my favourite Twitter accounts, we are 83% of the way through the year. This rather alarms me, and it doesn’t make me feel much better that I decided to procrastinate book writing this afternoon by writing this newsletter. Thinking of […]...

How I Built a Community When I cycled around the world I assumed that once I was done I’d have to get a proper job. And that’s what I did. For a bit. Then I decided I fancied more adventures, and that I’d like to […]...

Great Adventures for Kids to Try at Home Britain is an adventurous country. Even if we are more armchair explorer than Bear Grylls-style hanging from a cliff with the rope between our teeth, most of us enjoy stories of travel and adventure. We have a strong history here, […]...

Shouting from my Shed: Volume 17 It astonishes me how much work goes into a mere 90 seconds of film (which you’ll probably mostly ignore as you sip your skinny macchiato and wonder how early you can skive off work to go for an evening swim […]...

Shouting from my Shed: Volume 14 (I think) Hello, once again, from my shed, I write with trepidation following my recent spate of incompetent and broken newsletters. Fingers crossed this makes it out into the universe safely, and just the once! Adventures are filled with screw-ups and mistakes. You […]...

Shouting from my Shed – 13 – Women in Adventure Good afternoon from a kayak in sunny Sweden! (Actually, that is a lie. When this email goes out to the world I will be on that kayak, but I’mm actually writing this a week ago, in my shed. So if […]...

How to Improve your Email Newsletter I’mve been half-heartedly sending email newsletters for 17 years. But only recently have I started to make a real effort to make them good (do you subscribe? If not, you probably should). In order to learn what my audience was […]...

Shouting from the Shed: Volume 8 A Short Adventure Film I Made: a while back I wrote about my trip to Vegas and Utah. I travel the world for many things: looking for the spectacular; to be surprised; to stand in wonder and stare at wonders. […]...

Shouting from my Shed – Volume 7 “Hey y’all!” as we say here in Texas. I’m writing this in Austin before giving a talk at SXSW. I got off the plane and headed straight for the hills for a night in a hammock. Now I am so […]...

Social Media Advice A while ago I gave a talk about social media and how to use it well. I intended to write up my notes afterwards into an amazing, comprehensive blog post. But I still have not got round to it, and now […]...

Walking Home for Christmas 2017 Every year approximately 15,000 skilled and capable men and women leave the Armed Forces having served on behalf of their country. The majority transition successfully. But for a meaningful minority the departure from the structured world of the military is […]...

Deciding to Change the Direction of your Life I prepared my thoughts and slides for a talk about the decisions that led me to begin making adventure my life. Then the venue had a technical hitch so couldn’t use my slides and my talk became a Q&A session. […]...

Are You Earning Money For The Sake Of It? Let me ask you a question: ‘œAre you earning money for the sake of it?’ It’s quite a provocative question, but it’s a useful question. It helps us reframe where earning money sits in our lives, and what our real […]...

Viewranger: a Night on a Hill with Friends A night on a hill with friends. Fabulous. A place I have never been before. Uplifting. The first swifts of the summer. Ditto. More girls than boys. Rare (for me). Rotisserie chicken. Better than pasta. An insane sunset. Glorious. A […]...

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