Coffee Adventures Outside - an idea for your calendar: one coffee outdoors every month: blog.annabrones.com/tag/coffee-a...

Between the 5th and the 13th of July, people will be gathering across England to take part in a ‘Ghost Hunt’ in order to call on Forestry England to restore their local ancient woodlands.

Travel Books - Ideas for Presents

My Definitive List of Books to Give as Gifts

I've been sharing my not very glowing book reviews for a while. This though is a first - a long video that is a very un-glowing book review!!! 😀🤦‍♂️ "Microadventures - a pretentious Br*tish euphemism for a bike ride" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT3i...

The Seven Summits of My Neighbo(u)rhood (UK Edition 🇬🇧)

Fancy joining a Trees for Cities volunteer day? Turn up for a few hours, plant some trees, get a nice curry: www.treesforcities.org/get-involved...

Northern Lights set to dazzle UK once again due to possible 'severe' geomagnetic storm www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Farmers urgently need government support to restore rivers and make #SpaceForWater, which will create wildlife habitat, clean our waters, and protect communities from flood and drought. We’ve got one month to get 10,000 signatures: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

If you've read my book "Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness", please could you help nudge me up to 400 reviews on Amazon? It only takes 30 seconds to do. Thank you! www.amazon.co.uk/Local-Search...

Traveling the World on $500 a Month: One Cyclist’s Story

Farmers urgently need government support to restore rivers and make #SpaceForWater, which will create wildlife habitat, clean our waters, and protect communities from flood and drought. We’ve got one month to get 10,000 signatures: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Sign up for a newsletter where adventure meets purpose.  We all love the outdoors. We all know the planet is in trouble.  What can we do to make a difference, to encourage others to do the same... landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/lan...

I enjoyed this chat with the Finding Purpose website: Why the adventurer came home www.findingpurpose.co/p/why-the-ad...

Six years across South America on foot! What a journey! A talk in London on Monday 20 October: events.humanitix.com/peter-casey

Turn a Beer Can into a Camera

I love this nosey glimpse of the desks where The Booker Prize nominees write: from kitchen tables to a cemetery bench www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...

David decided to walk to over 200 branches of Samaritans across the UK and Ireland to raise the profile of the charity and support their aim of reducing the number of people who die by suicide. thelisteningwalk.com

My Midsummer Morning - rediscovering a life of adventure

Cross the world four times | Derek Sivers

Some thoughts on the niche worlds of bikepacking / cycle touring... www.tumblr.com/tracksterman...

Join us for an inspiring lecture on our 30 day journey to Arabia Felix in the 1927 footsteps of RGS Gold Medalist Bertram Thomas. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oman-the-j...

A World Tour of Yorkshire alpkit.com/blogs/deeds/...

England’s model for countryside access cost six times more to implement than Scotland’s right to roam policy, new figures reveal.

From 19 – 25th September, survey your river with the Big River Watch app to help restore rivers across the UK and Ireland theriverstrust.org/take-action/...

Swimming and wild camping should be a right for all people to enjoy in the English countryside, Labour MPs have said. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Highland hillwalkers asked to look out for space rocks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bristol folk... The Wilderness Lectures are back. Such a brilliant Bristol institution for many, many years: www.wildernesslectures.com

5 🌟 to Local by @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Make a Camera from a Can

Fancy applying for a £1000 Local Nature Grant Scheme? www.linnean.org/the-society/...

30 Days - "Practice and Suck Less Challenge"

I planted a forest four years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVLx...

Everything I Know about Self-Publishing kk.org/thetechnium/...

A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online www.openculture.com/2025/08/a-ma...

In a society obsessed with finish line narratives, we mustn’t forget the starting line stories, too. For I believe the distance from the starting line is where the true spirit lies; where did you come from to get to that race start line?

Bike Hike & Paddle are a useful group if you need help with the logistics for Duke of Edinburgh's Award Expeditions:

Some kids lack access to woods, fields, and other open spaces where they might romp free. Some have parents who forbid that brand of tomfoolery.

UK waters are too polluted to swim in – but European nations offer solutions

I've updated my list of book recommendations, in case you're after a summer read:

I'm delighted to learn that Girl Guides can now work towards a Microadventures badge! buff.ly/xRpUTag

The Hudson Bay Girls: Canoeing 1,900km Through the Heart of Canada

Butterfly Conservation have declared a butterfly emergency, and we need your help more than ever before. By taking part in Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count - a UK wide survey, you can help assess the health of our environment: bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org

Serious water pollution incidents up 60% in England www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours.

Next week the friends of the River Medway are hiking from Source to Sea. Here's how to join them for a day (or more...): buff.ly/KW1MCnV

Whether you want to reinvigorate your swim practice or reignite your swimming mojo The OSS Swim Couch to 5K will help get you there. The tens of thousands of swimmers who have already used this seven week programme to get swim fit can’t be wrong. buff.ly/1ilSRFW

The brilliant Beau Miles is going to plant a forest paid for by YouTube views. Please click this link, and share with your friends: buff.ly/I9UgmtF

In every country, for millennia, folk have enjoyed a swim in clean, safe, still water on hot days. But not in Britain today, where Bristol Water has deemed the water to be "extremely dangerous" and access revoked, purely due to the hot weather! 🤯 buff.ly/KEMxto4

Record or Irresponsibility? A Six-Year-Old Boy Summits Mount Elbrus explorersweb.com/record-or-ir...