Category: My 40th Blog
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30th Challenge complete
It was last year that I first mentioned my 40 challenges to my friend Karen. She suggested that she could give me a challenge. We had just been talking about how excrutiating I would find some of the hippy workshops that she goes to, shamanic journeys, reiki healings and the like. So that was of
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28th Challenge complete
How much does it take to organise a beach clean-up? Bring along a couple of bin bags? Whoever was meant to be organising the Marine Conservation Society’s Great British Beach Clean at Bossington Beach, just down the road from Minehead, couldn’t even do that. About 10 volunteers turned up – including me so that I
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27th Challenge complete
Yesterday I photographed the Dart 10k swim. I’m going to try and get an article in a magazine published about it. More news soon. Until then, here are the photos I took. UPDATE: I didn’t get a magazine article published. Boooo.
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25th Challenge complete
My 1-month long, beercan pinhole camera photograph of Tonedale Mill in Somerset.
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24th Challenge complete
The outdoor swims I’ve done lately have had a slight element of not wanting to be there, whether that has been to finish a bit quicker or that I was cold and didn’t like it and wanted to go home and have a cup of tea. They were all great experiences but I had a
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23rd Challenge complete
Most good walks involve a little bit of fear. A steep rock climb or a narrow cliff path always spices up a walk. But when that fear is a constant terror for 3 solid hours it gets a bit much. I started my night walk at Bossington near Minehead and headed up Selworthy Hill just
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22nd Challenge complete
I’ve wanted to pray for a while now but the thing is, I don’t believe in god. It started when I got high from going to a singing class. It made me realise why churches encourage people to sing. It’s because singing, really belting out with other people, makes you high and gives you a
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21st Challenge complete
Yesss! I beat my last year’s time for the 750m Human Race Swim Series at Marlow by exactly 1 minute. My time was 19:43. That’s 23rd place out of 49, 11th out of 19 men and 3rd out of 6 men in my age group. After doing the Severn Mile swim last week I wasn’t quite so nervous
Simon John Parkin 