My name is Tom Smallwood and here you will find my posts and those of guests, on the positive effects of time spent outdoors.
Last week I talked to Sarah Outen and spent three days on a little adventure in the wild, so we will be back again with a guest post next week. Enjoy!
Adventure is a word which is used very much these days to describe outdoor activities that, to those who have always done them, are simply what they are; hiking, camping or canoeing, for example. They need no greater moniker to attribute some magical quality to them...
Read MoreIf, like me, you don't read as much as you might like to, you probably want to get the most out it. so here are three books you absolutely must make time to read!
With less time on my hands as well as the proliferation and accompanying distraction of other media, such as podcasts, I certainly do not read as much as I used to but my love for the written word, and specifically the printed word, is undimmed. My modest library is still a sort of refuge for me in moments of stress.
Read MoreIt must be a good 12 years since I last went to the Kendal Mountain Festival (the Mountain Film Festival as it was then known) so it was with some excitement that I venture along this year. I remember watching the premiere of Touching the Void, meeting Joe Simpson and having to go back to the hostel long before I had drunk as much as I wanted because they had a curfew!
Many things have changed in the intervening years, not least of which I became somewhat disconnected with the outdoors.
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