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2026

This Tree Ain’t Budging “How Did You Get Into This?” Trees That Could Kill You Laden With A Terrifying Light! This Emotion Kills Fascists Wait. Smells Get Into Your Bloodstream? What Happens When You Touch Wood You See, But You Do Not Observe Twit-Twoo 🦉 Do I Need My Big Coat? Not Everything Needs to Grow Right Now

2025

£760,000 and Out Why Are City Parks Empty At Night? Lucky Old You Foiled: The Radio Show That Refused To Dye Self-Care Not Working? Try Adventure Foiled: Everything's Chairs I Could Have Been Nothing Unbelievably Lucky... A Lot of Botany Happy Friday! Join Me On Night Shift I See The Future In My Dreams (And So Do You In Yours) Not The Right Book Fluent in Welcome: My Albanian Love Affair The Scent of a Thousand Miles A New Kind Of Adventure Tell Me About Corvids Vagabond or Tourist? Stop Judging You: A New Forest Story Three Tiny Big Things To Do In January

2024

24 Tiny Big Things From 2024 Enter 🐈 Phone Guaranteed For Life Do It While You Can A Time Of Unmasking Everything Is Free* It's Okay To Be Cool Five Minute Fire Cheep Cheep A Flaming Match Head The Warrior Emotion The Budapest Question Crow Feathers & Wild Flowers Kicking, Smashing, Jostling Procrastination Doesn't Work Schroedinger’s Candidate Delete The Internet Going The Extra Millimetre The Call Of The Mild In And Out Of The Lakes Everything I Know About Nature Connectedness: Part 1 'We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For' Iolair Nan Speur: Eagle of the Skies The Donkey Is Not A Tiger Forage! ‘I’ve Opened Boxes’ RSVP Frogspawn How Much Is Enough? I’ll Be The Stupid One! The Last Newsletter (for a bit) 🎲 4 Tiny Big Things At The End The Adventure of Scrape Bottom 5 Incredible Things I’ve Learned From 340 Days Of Adventure Gaping Abundance 52 Things I Learned In 2023 (Part 2) 52 Things I Learned In 2023 (Part 1)

2023

The Vengeance of King Edward III Resurfacing The Ephemeral Five Tiny Big Things #2 Eudaimonic Adventure Adventure Mind ‘What the hell have I been doing for the last 20 years?’ Are You Experienced? The Supreme Court Has No Clue If You Have The Right To Build Sandcastles Or Not The more I see, the more I realise that it’s just fantastic We All Need Living Room Taking Adventure Out On The Town TWo IRritating SHift KEys The Essential Element Of Naughtiness Could This Be A Moment? C’est La Vie En Rose Together Through The Flood A Midpoint Three Tiny Big Things At The End #1 Don’t Confuse What They Think With What You Know Not A Miracle Enter The Packing Room Andy Murray's Nice Always Take The Doughnut Round Britain Twice: Graham Eating Chips And Gravy Competitive Generosity Round Britain Twice: From Egremont Castle Luggage & Courage ‘Hi, I’m Dave.’ No shame. The Number Twenty-Four (And My Inevitable Mortality) 10 Years Of No Borders The Secret Society Of Lost Hats Negative Capability ≠ Stable Ambiguity 100% Endurance Struggle-Play What Would Salah Do? The Stars Are People-Gazing Interrupt, Gloriously An Oxytocin-Fuelled Haze Of Euphoria Twice Buttered Cinq Diamants Antischismogenetic Equifinality Be The Miracle Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin & Me Coasting In Public The End Of Doomspreading Am I The Most Notable David Charles In The Whole Entire Universe? Movemberising Feb'ry Make Space For Others To Shine Adventure When You Can't Adventure? 260,000 Year Winning Record For Team Human Sweating It Out With Strangers PROOF: I’m Fine A Short Tour Of The Forgotten Elses

2022

52 Things I Learned In 2022 Woolly Mammoths & Butterfly Wings On The Lip Of A Lion Dave’s 2022 Books Of The Year Dylan, Eliot, Orwell, Rimbaud + Peterborough Never Dread The Road Ahead Yes To Yes-vember! Your Boat Needs A Crew The Talented Mr Whippy Intrinsic Adventure Winter Wins Don't Rush To Press Anxiety Superpowers The 3 (Or 4) Species of Happiness Mycelial Contentment Lies And The What What Now Now Not A Charity Auction More Like Communisn’t! Room Service & The End Of The End Of History Boredom & The World Heritage Site Carpocratian Touring The Magic Cobbler & More Philoxenia The Opposite Of Control The Dwelling Place Of The Soul Nature Loves A Broccoli Responsibility Is Not Heavy How To Give Me Birthday Presents The Cataclysmic Event Hypothesis Arran - Islay - Jura Dream Architecture Fossil Poetry 27 Things I Used To Believe And Now Completely Don’t 58 Days In Memory's Universal Flux Round Britain IV: Cycling Diaries Kings Lynn to Ravenscar How To Sleep In A Tent: A Story 11 Years In The Making Cycling Connections from Kings Lynn to Whitby Birds, Beasts, Blossoms Hot Stones, Keystone Habits Unlocking Your Anxiety Archive The Man Sloth Diaries Man Sloth Mode Surfing and the Blue Mind The Travel Triangle Not The Best Medicine Thought For Food #4: Chocolate Ginger Thighs Flapjack Rudenoise Respect The Hormones! Call Me Baby Progress Through Process The Adventurer's Journey 48.3 Mature Trees The Beatles: Not As Good As Dylan Jar Of Awesome Is The Answer To This Question ‘No’? Word Of The Week: Rhabdomancy Bytes in Bitcoin 100 Days of Adventure 2022

2021

52 Things I Learned In 2021 How to navigate… in fog… at night A Sense Of Adventure Drawing Out Solitude and Fire Thought for Food #3: Vegan Dark Chocolate Hobnobs Litigation not education on Dartmoor 88 Percent Perfect On Sneezing Bygone Bicycles Policy Versus Society Gorse Gawping Reality And The Metaverse Coconuts Versus The Climate That Whooshing Noise Cardiff with Camus Second Decade Self Portrait (1970) Five small things Turkish Delight falls out of the sky Talking politics with strangers World Record Surpassed Admin or admiration? We identify as human beings Laughter lines Stories in the lamplight Wiener brecwast Plumb lines and cockpits Let's masquerade 400-year old Bob April 4th, 1984 What's your solidarity archetype? Spell It Out Moth tree No more ‘hostile environment’ Unexpected? 'The literary equivalent of gold dust' Head in the clouds Make the woods your home Forget the kit list We want to change it Broken in The Corollavirus Reach Out! You don’t get paid for sitting around all day, you get paid for doing dirty work England confides No one forgets a bruise! How vital is my vegan blood? What me and my body learned from 324 days of isolation veganism—including blood tests Waldumrauscht Drawing on the power of nature The millionaire's jungle ravine Win Google PageSpeed: Score 99% with your WordPress blog in under 15 minutes Meet your mentor A puddle in the hoof print of an ox Foiled Series 4: On air Flash in the pan The Great Whatsapp Stink This happened after 18,000 miles Do this one easy thing to get a free book Days of Adventure

2020

52 Things Learned in 2020 The Catswold Way Mr Aki Ra Happy Anachistmas! Brains Eat Life Zozobra Trespassers Welcome Unsponsored Content: Going Rogue Catastrotunity Shankly’s Life and Death Foodball Thought for Food #1: Making an effort Rainbows Optimist Tintin versus the foo fighters Values This Means Moor Action! Fortunes Okayish Ripped Hair loss Death of an anarchist Pretty Pickle Philoxenia around Britain Cycling around Britain: Why is this happening? Detours Westward Ho! Cycling around Britain: Leave no trace Philoxenia Cycling around Britain: A cheese sandwich in a rainstorm Cycling around Britain: Nine years A boy. A bike. A bugle?! Let's go to Mordor! Proper adventure Not a bike ride Litter Antischedule Join us for World Refugee Day Fugees Giving The trees knees Pinenes [🇩🇨] Persistence [🇩🇨] Dispellcasting [🇩🇨] Chutzpah [🇩🇨] Isovegan [🇩🇨] Isolation Veganism Floundering [🇩🇨] Fascination [🇩🇨] Extravagance [🇩🇨] Thighsolation Social Distancing Isolation The Next Challenge grant winners What’s the point in bushcraft? Stormproof A Kinder wind Breakdown Readiscovery Be more creative: read a book Misperceptions Pitchfork attack! on Brownsea Island Stop: hammock time The men who stare at trees The Bins on Brownsea How to play Thighs of Steel Early bird for Thighs! Factfulness Life Should Be Lived In Shorts And Sandals

2019

Merry Thighsmas! 2010-2019: A New Davecade Begins 52 Things I Learned In 2019 The election that brought us together Ignore Results; Trust The Process All Urk and No Play ‘You can’t teach stupid’ Seeing the wood for the trees Official Secrets Scheming and Dreaming ‘Here is no work; there is war’: Refugees in İzmir ‘Here is nothing special’ From the English Channel Samos: Open Cards and Protests Audio: Samos Refugee Protest As Predicted: Fire on Samos Cycling around Ikaría Thighs of Steel arrives in Athens, all together Always take the swim Of The Lime The Beech Boys Lime Leaves Loves Horse (Chestnut) Play! oh merde it’s a FUNDRAISING LAUNCH!! No Place Like Holm (Oaks) Punkt MP02 First Look Review Thoreau on Walking The Next Challenge Grant Winners Announced! Foiled nominated for Celtic Media Award! The Tomb of the Unknown Arbour OK Foiled Domesday Trees ‘Sylva’ I believe in Rejection! Total Guts!

2018

The First Stile Overwhelming Kindness Black Sheep Backpackers Hostel: A mild review Thighs of Steel: A Community on Wheels Why I travel slow, or “Delays? Really?” Crossing the Border Thighs of Steel: Ljubljana to Sofia A Morning in the Life of a Steely Thighed Cyclist Diavata Camp, Thessaloniki How travel works on the mind From Chios to Crisis A User’s Guide to Cycling in Athens #86: Things Have Changed Things I Have Learnt About Khora Sunset on Strefi Daily Dérive #2: The Museum of Parkaeology The Limits of Rationalism: The Existential Journey of Levin in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Daily Dérive #1: Agios Panteleimonas ~ Exarcheia Travel from the Heart Foiled Diaries: Finito! Ultimate Medal Hope Sunswim Everyone needs an Arcot #69: Friday Night is Sauna Night! Foiled Series 2: A Sitcom Writer’s Diary No Phone Before Noon Your 5 Things 2017: No News is Good News

2017

Slip on your gloves and cross this countryside Biking Bournemouth-Bristol Tomsleibhe, Isle of Mull Robert Louis Stevenson at Skerryvore, Dorset Triple your max push ups without training? Stoicism and The Word of God What are we waiting for? A Box Hill Microadventure Foiled Episode 1: Everything’s Kings (BBC Radio) The Science of Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience No Tabbed Browsing A Really Good Day No Bike Stand, No Problem: Dave’s Bike Lock Stand

2016

Are you experienced? From containers to computers: the challenges of refugee integration in Germany Refugees Like It's 1699! #34: Grandhotel Cosmopolis #25 Heidelberg Helps They Want Me to Fly Like a Bird: Travels in the Belgian Asylum System Refugee Hospitality The Red Cross in Belgium - short video update Cooking Sudanese Halla with The School Bus Project Cooking Sudanese Halla in the Calais jungle Conversations in Calais Cycling Towards Syria: Days 1-3 The Tech Setup Seacycles III: London to Brighton Night Ride The Magic of Midnight Letter #25: "Those who forget how the revolution started will not know how it ends." Cycling to(wards) Syria Whitstable Ride Riding to Shoeburyness “We would like to breathe the air that you breathe” – Nabeel Taha, Iraq Calais: From Crisis to Community What Makes a Person Do a Thing?

2015

“It’s time to do something” Austrian Migrant Supporter Cycling Home for Christmas “I always believe in humanity” Mazin Abu Khaled, Migrant from Syria I’m a voyeur, a do-gooder, a megalomaniac! Christmas Bonanza: £5 off, Xmas cards & free books! Refugee Crisis: Which Side Are You On? Elevate: Lightful! Yes! Workshop No Stuff Positive Constraints: A Round Up No Television Positive Constraints in Literature No Plastic Bags No Meat: Meaty Moths & 3 Observations No Clothes Productivity Positive Constraints No Facebook No Toilet Paper No Meat No Hot Showers All my latest happenings and wanderings 😛 Critical Mass to Calais: Bikes Beyond Borders Advice for Media, Journalists & Film-makers in Calais Battles with bicycle maintenance (and a ghost) Bicycles, Freedom and Migration Charity or Solidarity? The History of John and Henry and of Frederick The Open Air Prison of Calais The Ghetto of Calais The Betrayal of All Humanity I hate crisps Why are polyglots so damn nice? An Anatomy of Rambling, or Why Walk? Krakadorn Revisited Migrant Mythbusting! Advice for People Visiting Calais Migrants No Mobile Phone Elevate Outroduction The 2014 Elevate Awards Amy Goodman: The Journalist Connection Dean Puckett & Sengwer: Conservation vs Communities The Commons Connection Thank-You Letter to the Daily Mail Everything is Connected Reality is the Next Big Thing Debate: Can Capitalism and Democracy Co-Exist? Reality is the Next Big Thing Debate: Data Disasters Reality is the Next Big Thing Debate: Power and “Social Gravity” Reality is the Next Big Thing Debate: Participation or Privacy? Reality is the Next Big Thing Debate: Who Will Cook Capitalism? Reality is the Next Big Thing: Keynote Fair and Open IT Research for Transition Let Fury Have the Hour: Antonino D’Ambrosio New Media and Creative-Response Creative Response / Ability Elevate Media and Technology Elevate Socio-Ecological Transformation Elevate Democracy Elevate the Commons Mimu: Instant Choir Dr Vandana Shiva: We Need to Elevate Patrick Wurzwallner: Head Cleaner Deanna Rodger: Read My Lips Humanity is Easy: Supporting Migrants in Calais

2014

Creative-Response, Urban Exploration and Twitter Shoshana Zuboff: Reality is the Next Big Thing What the Woop Woop is Creative Response? Think Hope, Think Crisis Elevate Festival Opening Speech: John Holloway Calais Migrant Factgasm: Episode 1 Essential Security Feature When Travelling Do We Need Borders? David Charles: English Arms Dealer Crossing Borders: Calais, Syria, Around Britain and Into Adulthood The Literary Consultancy Manuscript Assessment Review HELP! Cycling Around Britain Book Title Poll Most Living and the Meaning of Life: Sailing 3,500 Miles for Syria The Complete History of the Moon in Sixteen and a Half Verses Them and Us: Evolutionary Politics and The Philosopher Kings (and Queens) City to Coast; Midnight to Dawn Update: Canterbury Retales

2013

10 things you learn when you cycle 4,110 miles around Britain The Most Interesting Country in the World: Part 1 Having Hair

2012

Experiments in Publishing: Success? Facebook Zen Tunis Martyrs’ Day Violence: Why and What Next? Tunis: Police Attack Peaceful Martyrs March Cycling to the Sahara: On Killer Guard Dogs and Courage

2011

How to Hitch-hike Why I am an anarchist (and why you are too) Sarajevo gives thanks to the UN The End of the Era of the Dictators: Who’s Next? Anatomy of a Novel: The Quiet American by Graham Greene

2010

Walking Home for Christmas: Maps & Pictures Walking Home for Christmas: The Updates Walking Home for Christmas: Heathrow to Cholsey Hypnagogia: How to Dream like Thomas Edison

2008

How to enjoy waking up at dawn 40 Photos of the Krakadorn