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Coffee in the Woods We began all this with coffee. Taking your coffee outside to enjoy the morning. Then we took our coffee somewhere we had never been and discovered nearby newness. This episode is also about coffee time. Or rather, it is about […]...

Coffee Outside on a Walk As we inch into the new year, this marks our 12th installment of Coffee Adventures Outside. A full year of prompts and encouragement to use our coffee habits as an excuse to get outside. It is perhaps fitting that we […]...

Coffee Outside with a Friend Our coffee adventures outside over the past year have helped us bring a sliver of solitude to our busy routines, some treasured physical space, and an espresso sip of mental space in which to allow difficulties some time to filter, […]...

Coffee Outside in the Rain “Between every two pine trees,” said environmentalist John Muir, “there is a door leading to a new way of life.” And beneath every pine tree, sheltering from the rain, we hope to find an adventurous creative soul sipping coffee and […]...

Coffee Outside at Sunrise “The sadness will dissipate as the sun rises. It is like a mist.” – For Whom the Bell Tolls Up here in the northern hemisphere we have passed the equinox and slipped into autumn. The days are becoming cooler and […]...

Coffee, after a night outside You’re going to appreciate this month’s coffee more than any other from our adventures this year. A night spent under the stars is unlikely to offer the best sleep of the year, but it is refreshing and restorative in other […]...

Coffee Outside, on a Bike Ride “The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets,” wrote Christopher Morley in Parnassus on Wheels. You don’t have to be a novelist or poet to understand the sentiment; the bicycle is the vehicle of […]...

Coffee by the Ocean These monthly creative coffee musings, matched in time to each new moon, have made us pay more attention to the lunar cycle than ever before. That noticing is a good thing, but we also keep catching ourselves thinking, ‘is it […]...

Coffee Outside, After a Wild Swim Here we are, almost halfway through the year. We’re coming closer to the summer solstice, which for those of us in the northern hemisphere means ample hours of daylight, and warmer days for explorations and adventures. Nature is bursting […]...

Coffee Outside, With a Dose of Creativity What makes you feel creative? Every month we have been exploring ways that coffee can offer the opportunity for interesting microadventures, a vehicle into exploration of the world around us or our inner selves. What is otherwise a very regular […]...

Coffee Outside, Somewhere New In her book Wintering, Katherine May describes the struggles of the fallow season we are now coming to the end of. “Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living […]...

Coffee Outside Momentous and wondrous things — adventure, a piece of art, a new project — begin with a seed of an idea, a cup of coffee, and then the decision to begin. Whether it is ‘putting the kettle on’ in Britain […]...

Coffee anyone? Do you, like me, enjoy a good cup of coffee? Well, pour yourself a cup, sit back, relax, and watch the trailer for this movie that highlights how farmers earn just 3c for each $3 cup of coffee. “Trade is […]...

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 […]...

Actionable Self Help I am a total sucker for self help books. I love trying to improve and optimise my life. I’ve even written one myself (and a newsletter series about living more adventurously). There are a few problems though: Sometimes I binge […]...

Adventure Books Written by Women I enjoy compiling reading lists for people to discover, such as these recommendations of good adventure books, sorted by categories. And every so often I share online this photo of great adventure books written by women. It always generates fabulous […]...

Shouting from the Shed 116 Shouting from the Shed Good morning! It’s 5.45 am. Black coffee and black skies outside the window. My favourite time of day. So much potential still hangs in those hours ahead. Last week we passed, apparently, “Quitters’ Day”, when all […]...

Shouting from the Shed 111 Alastair Humphreys Shouting from the Shed Hi again, ***Warning: waffly caffeinated intro alert*** The rain is rattling relentlessly on the roof of my shed and I’d quite like to be on a beach in Bali instead. But, I remind myself, this is […]...

The Adventure of Keith’s Bike (Part 2) A while ago I ran a blog post about a nice man, Keith, giving away his adventure bike to whoever had the best adventure idea. He chose a nice lady, Lydia, to be the winner (more on her later). But […]...

Kids Picture Book Bundle Great Adventurers is... "The sort of book you buy for your kids and keep for yourself. This pictorial showcase of derring-do is aimed at kids aged seven and over but its cartoon strips, maps and charts are so charming and uncomplicated that it could happily bring a splash of colour to most coffee tables." – National Geographic The incredible journeys undertaken by twenty of the most heroic and impressive adventurers who ever lived. Winner of the 2019 Ordnance Survey Children’s Travel Book of the Year Long-listed for the Blue Peter Book Award 2019 Short-listed for the Teach Primary Book Awards 2019 Against the Odds is... A book full of hope and the power of self-belief and resilience, and a humdinger of a sequel to the award-winning Great Adventurers. Sometimes adventure, like life, doesn’t work out as you want it to. Even determined explorers make mistakes. Some things go wrong through no fault of your own. Many of the greatest adventurers of all time failed along the way. Others had to overcome hardships to pursue lives of adventure....

Shouting from the Shed 106 Shouting from the Shed Hi again, I’ve got the usual selection of links for you to enjoy today. But first, here’s why I love sending email newsletters… Kamil in Poland signed up for my Living Adventurously newsletter ages ago. On September 4, 2019 […]...

Flabbiness Out of all the words I’ve written, in thousands of blogs and 16 books, the single page that I receive the most positive emails about is this one: Flabbiness “You know how advice is: you only want it if it […]...

Wild camping is the best way to sleep. It shouldn’t be banned Camping. What does that word mean to you? A shudder of horror and on to the next idea? Perhaps it calls to mind nostalgia for carefree family holidays and glamping with hot tubs and fairy lights, mixed with memories of […]...

Shouting from the Shed 98 Hi again, This will be my final newsletter of the year, so I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, and encourage you to schedule some monthly nature or adventure into your life next year (eg: a tree climb, full moon outing, overnight camp, or […]...

Shouting from the Shed 87 View in browser Pip, pip, tally ho! If a friend forwarded this to you, why don’t you allow me to hand-deliver it, crisp and fresh, next time? Ooh, yes please! Alastair Humphreys Shouting from the Shed Hi again, Oh, to […]...

Shouting from the Shed 84 Hi again, I hope you’ll find this newsletter interesting, helpful or fun. If you do, would you mind sharing it on Twitter? Thank you. Here are a few things I’d like to share with you today (and don’t forget the archive […]...

Shouting from the Shed – 82 Happy New Year! 👉 Here’s to a year filled with curiosity, adventure and time spent in nature. I blew away my New Year’s Day cobwebs with a river swim and this resolution: “Here’s to more nearby nature in everyday lives this year, […]...

Shouting from the Shed – 81 Hi again, What do you think of these shorter but more frequent newsletters? Please do hit reply and let me know your thoughts. This is my final newsletter of 2021, a weird year in which I explored my local map but not much […]...

Shouting from the Shed – 80 Hi again, Here are a few things I’d like to share with you today… 👇 Cancel your Xmas shopping! Don’t buy any of my books. Buy the new book from the Rough Stuff Fellowship instead for anyone who loves adventure and cycling. Its […]...

Does the Need to Earn Money Make You a ‘Better’ Adventurer? What Are You Willing to Do for Money? I have received lots of different questions about money matters. I’m going to bunch them together into one post. I’ve written extensively before about how I earn money. Who does your tax return? (And […]...

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