Category: My 40th Blog
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Extra Channel Swim Challenge complete
This wasn’t one of my challenges for this year but I’ve done it by accident. I’ve just swum to France! Well, not really, but over the last 8 months, in training for, and including, my open water swims, I’ve swum 35470 metres, that’s about 22 miles, that’s 1418 lengths of a 25m length pool, in
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20th Challenge complete
My first mile-long outdoor swim completed. I did it in the beautiful town of Shrewsbury down the River Severn for the Severn Mile Swim. I panicked when I got in and it took a while to calm down and relax into it. More of a type-2 fun this one (more enjoyable after completion) but I’m
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19th Challenge complete
I’ve gone as far as I can presently go in making my family tree. I previously knew very little about my family history – even my dad’s immediate family was never really spoken of – so I really had to pin my parents down to get all the information they knew. From this I managed
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15th & 16th Challenge complete
Here’s my short film of my cycle trip around the Isle of Wight which doubles as my entry for the Adventure Cycling Association 2014 Bicycle Travel Video Contest. Music by me too!
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14th Challenge complete
Today I finished my 24 hour zine. It was meant to be done in July for the 24 Hour Zine Thing but I wouldn’t have had time in July. I had a great 24 hours documenting lots of things that made me happy, a task in itself for me. Being a purist, I would like
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11th Challenge complete
To complete a ‘classic’ was my dare. I scanned my dusty, leaning shelf, Found a pristine, black, ‘Onegin’ there And found an hour to please myself. What started out interminable, Like English class, abominable, Became, throughout a few days’ grind, A joy to read its plot unwind. I rode along with Eugene the fop, I
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