Garden office birds project

We've covered Alastair Humphreys and his garden office a couple of times before on Shedworking. The adventurer, author and motivational speaker has come up with an interesting way of connecting with the nature around his build. Here's what he says:

My latest strategy for procrastinating book writing: photographing the birds that visit my writing shed. I set up my camera and then use an app on my phone to take the photos when a bird arrives to distract me from my writing!  

Pictured above is an example of the project and you can watch his ongoing progress at Flickr here.

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Spring comes to Alastair Humphreys' garden office

We profiled adventurer, author and motivational speaker Alastair Humphreys back in 2014 when he first became a shedworker so it was really nice to see how his garden office has progressed since then (pictured above). "My writing shed is being swallowed by the mad May undergrowth explosion," he says. "And I'm quite happy with that. I like editing a book under the gaze of a herd of cow parsley."

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Alastair Humphreys: shedworker

Adventurer, author and motivational speaker Alastair Humphreys has also recently added 'shedworker' to his already impressive CV and has been charting the build on Twitter. Here's a snippet from a recent blog about his experience of self-building (with help from a friend).

"Over the last couple of years I’ve begun yearning for a specific workspace of my own. A place where I could think “this is where I work. Today I am going to grind out some creativity and get 2000 words written no matter how little I feel like it.”... I wanted somewhere to play Thunder Road on repeat very loudly. I needed to leave home, to go somewhere to work (‘I’m heading out of here to win!’) and then to come home again when I’d finished and to properly relax, like normal people do. I couldn’t really justify renting an office when all I need is a computer. And, besides, I didn’t choose my direction in life in order to have an office. No. What I really wanted was a shed."

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