I write a regular column for Oceanographic Magazine, and have had my writing published in several places which you can find in the Media page, my favourite of which has to be a piece for The Guardian entitled “How Bob Marley helped me paddleboard from Lands’s End to John O’Groats.”
I’m currently writing a book about my most recent expedition, which I must say is harder in many ways than the expedition itself! Watch this space.
For Writing about plastic pollution, please visit the Paddle Against Plastic website
I wanted to help viewers learn more about some of the amazing organisations we had the great privilege of working with in Scotland: Ocean Nation, so that you can support them if you wish! We were so fortunate to be able to work with some fantastic charities and groups who are truly making waves towards helping people and our ocean. Click on the links to be taken to their websites.
Read MoreJames and I are not used to having a ‘holiday’, but exhausted and in desperate need of recovery and rejuvenation, and with one precious week together set aside this summer, we had to decide where to go and what to do…
Read MoreWhat is the ocean’s role in the climate crisis? How can the ocean help store carbon?
Read MoreBiodiversity is the variation between and within species. But why is it important, and what does it have to do with the climate crisis? Read on to learn more.
Read MoreThis year, COP26 comes to Glasgow, UK. But what is it, how is it relevant to us, and how can we get involved?
Read MoreWe all have mental health, just as we all have physical health. Some reflections and tips this Mental Health Awareness Week, 2021.
Read MoreWith the Water Skills Academy
Read MoreMusic has an amazing ability to connect us, transport us and ground us.
Read MoreWe all have mental health, just as we all have physical health. In this blog, I share some wellbeing tips and a couple of feel-good videos.
Read MoreI strongly believe that mindfulness holds the key to real enjoyment. It’s been clinically proven time after time that mindfulness-based meditation is beneficial for both mental health and physical health. Mindfulness meditation is the process of focussing the attention onto the present, and in particular onto the breath.
Read MoreWhat can we do once we’ve got our reusable shopping bags, committed to a refillable bottle and switched to green energy in our homes?
Read MoreHow to be an Eco-Activist on Lockdown
How to stay connected to the oceans… even if you can’t be there.
Mastering the Endurance Mindset
The key to success in pushing your perceived limits.
Read MoreA round up of the level of plastic pollution I found in India and some insights into the global issue.
Read MoreIn 2019, I received an email from the vice-chancellor of Marjon University…
Read MoreMindfulness doesn’t just have to be about sitting in the lotus position and meditating, it can be incorporated into every day activities. In fact, that’s where I personally find it to be of most benefit.
Read MoreI’d just completed an enormous feat of physical and mental endurance. Been immersed in the outdoors and all its glorious nature for weeks on end; achieved something nobody had ever done before. And I felt like a complete failure.
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