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Shouting from the Shed 68

Good morning,

I’m writing this as the first hint of daylight creeps into the sky. The birds’ dawn chorus is blasting away: Spring is coming and that makes me smile. I’m particularly enjoying the news of what the readers of my newsletter are up to, below.

Here are some things I’d like to share with you today:

📕 Some good books I read during Lockdown 3.

☕️ Coffee outside, somewhere new. Be a local explorer.

🇵🇱 “Go Home Polish!” Photographer Michal Iwanowski discusses walking 1900km from Wales to Poland. I love this story.

🎧 My dream podcast guests? Here’s Bruce and Obama chatting about the open road, domestication, and whether we are born to run (Throw in Ranulph Fiennes and David Batty and you’ve got my dream dinner party guests and the lode stars of my life…😂)

🎥 What if the thing that stops us living as adventurously as we might dream of is not time or money or family or expertise or gender or training, but our own fears?

✂️ And some more snippets for you…

✂️ Here are some free teaching resources for my three ‘Boy Who Biked the World‘ books.

✂️ See what the summit of Mount Everest looks like in 3D. I was amazed at its steepness.

✂️ A list of inspiring Women in Adventure to follow online.

✂️ Excellent knot-tying video tutorials.

✂️ The great bicycle boom of 2020.

✂️ Man walks around the world without leaving his home city.

✂️ These birdwatching webcams from around the world make me happy. I’d like to be reincarnated as a Californian hummingbird.

✂️ Fed up with riding the same old circuits? Feel like going on an adventure? Take on the British Cycle Quest (after lockdown) and discover new places all over Britain.

✂️ Authors: this is a nifty site for helping customers to buy your book from the store of their choice. Simply stick your ISBN after “www.boook.link/”  (see example.)

❓Can I help you? Let me know if you have a relevant project that my readers would appreciate. Here’s what you guys have been up to recently… 👇

❤️ Looking forward to life out of lockdown? Join Youth Adventure Trust for The Ellis Brigham 10 Peaks Challenge to make sure you restart ‘normality’ with something incredible.

❤️ A podcast about the Scottish coast and the communities and conservation work taking place along it.

❤️ Embracing Absurdity Can Be An Act of Defiance.

❤️ Running from the most-Westerly point to the most-Easterly point of Singapore.

❤️ In Search of the Wild Reindeer. One woman’s magnificent quest to pick up the pieces when her life fell apart. An epic bike journey.

❤️ If you’re in the Bristol area, treat yourself to a fabulous portrait of your kids and pets.

❤️ A new book for children. How to Save the World with a Chicken and an Egg.

❤️ Michael and Luna are walking across Canada, a rewilding journey to raise money and awareness for Trees for Life, because We need to start somewhere!!

📢 I have a favour to ask: if you enjoy getting my newsletter, would you mind sharing it on Twitter? (Just 2 clicks required.)

👉 Thanks for reading. If you’re seeing this newsletter for the first time, you can subscribe here.

I hope you have a fun week,

Alastair

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