Mountain Biking by Bike has been an imagined zine series for some time. The series includes rides in the Welsh Valleys, the New Forest, the Highlands and King Alfred’s Way. I wanted to highlight how you can easily go mountain biking by bike for a small adventure for a few days (or more) away from home. If you’re me this usually involves getting the train at some point, but doesn’t need to. I’m based in Bristol so the series starts from there and actually only one of the zines actually exists in physical form; No. 5 – The Highlands, shown below.

Toilet Fest IV saw the launch of Faecal Matters, a zine about poo by Art Bath made on toilet paper. It was distributed/sold rolled up in empty toilet rolls, collected since the idea of launching the zine at Toilet Fest came about. As many zines were made as there were empty toilet rolls and some were labelled with where they came from: the Cube; Bristol Bike Project; Fenton House; The Guild; and Supernormal festival. Amazingly 23 empty toilet rolls were collected and the recipients, many people playing at Toilet Fest IV and six “pre-orders”, are listed on a large empty toilet roll.

This winter I set up a Full Moon Winter Dipping club with the aim to swim at each full moon during winter. The swims took place at either the moon rise or moon set, which we watched from Troopers Hills before or after the swim in Conham River Park. I created a zine to celebrate the achievement of getting through the winter. Some photos of the zine are shown below (there were membership cards and stickers). The river was dangerously flooded for the January dip and for the March dip it was snowing, it was nowhere near as cold “swimming” in snow than the river had been, which was surprising!  

I’ve more or less given out all 46 A3 zines to the people who I wanted to, but also want to make them available here, in case anyone else is interested. I still have quite a few A4 versions left and at somepoint would like to distribute these along the path for people to find.

I created an ode to the Community Forest Path in zine form. It was launched at the Zinezilla event at Strange Brew on Saturday 8 October 2022. I’ve included some photos here from my walks around the 46 mile route and in the future I hope to create some sound art from the audio recordings I took en route.

To celebrate my husband’s 45th Birthday we cycled over all 45 bridges in the Bristol area, going over each only once. I used a sewing machine to create the route on an LP sized sleeve. On the inside the bridges are labelled. We spent his birthday cycling over them all, taking pictures and audio recordings of a fact about each one. All information was taken from the book ‘From Brycgstow to Bristol in 45 Bridges’ by Jeff Lucas. The route and other information if available from Bristol Books (www.bristolbooks.org/shop/from-brycgstow-to-bristol-in-45bridges). I’ve created copies of this and am now giving it to anyone I know who turns 45, in a limited edition of 45!