Stories from winners of The Next Challenge Grant and my own adventures…
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A month or so back I started a chain of guest blogs with some like-minded friends of mine. The idea is that we take it in turns to write articles and share them on each other’s websites. Each of the…
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How can they riot?
There’s a protestShe saidAnd I asked her what forJustice?Peace?Same as before? Um, noShe repliedA smile turned to frownNot in this placeNot in this town One side wrongOne side rightIt’s ever so easyWhen there’s blackAnd there’s white How can they riot?How…
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How to prevent bike theft
I watched someone steal a bike last month. Right in front of me they cut the cable lock with a pair of pliers and pushed off with it into traffic on Notting Hill High Street. I was gutted. Seeing the…
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And we’ll all be lonely tonight
Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats Janitors padlock the gates For security guards to patrol And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink While the married…
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1,001 miles in a rickshaw
Yesterday afternoon I arrived back home having cycled a rickshaw a thousand miles home from the Highlands. It took just over four weeks, meaning that I finished two weeks ahead of schedule. I passed through all the Special Olympics Great…
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When again will I eat houmous at midnight?
When next shall I find myself lying in a ditch beneath a sheet of camouflage nylon inside a sleeping bag strewn at the most obscure of angles to find comfort whilst tending a pot of luke warm cous cous as…
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Long days and short
This blog post is being written from a small gravel layby off the A4074 from which I’ve just turn off in a mild hypoglycaemic funk. Yesterday was my biggest yet – 74 miles – but I’ve decided to crack on…
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