Born to be Mild: Adventures for the Anxious

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So Rob decided to make a plan - to embark on fifty 'mild' adventures, to be a little less Pooh Bear and a little more Bear Grylls. It is also clear that Rob has had his share of trouble and it sits underneath quite a lot of what he says, present but not often referenced. We then see a group of cappies with Tiff, Tuff, and Kirby trying to come to a solution to drive them out of town.

Born to be Mild by Rob Temple | Waterstones

I tried my best to relate to his "issues" but with every page I kept growing more impatient and annoyed. Rob has a fantastic perspective on the world around him and he expresses his musings into words in the best ways. Rob Temple runs the social-media empire Very British Problems from the comfort of his own sofa, but what happens when the four walls of your living room become your world? Although the book is laden throughout with Rob’s characteristic humour and, erm, funniness, he’s also candid about his own problems. The former demands the latter to turn down the TV's volume since the engine noise is loud, but despite Escargoon turning down the volume, the noise is still disturbing.We then see Gus catching up to the reckless band of drivers and tries to reason with them, but Fang only states that they wished to stay in town until they could find Steppenwolf, only for Gus to decline his presence in the aforementioned village. My favourite of his experiences were the crocodile farm, especially that conversation with his Mum about whether the crocodiles might escape in a flood! In this raw and honest memoir, Rob shares his year of gentle adventure and the lessons learnt along the way. I really wanted to like this book, but sadly it read like a garbled stream of consciousness that was in need of a good edit. It makes sense to me now why I found this so difficult to find in Waterstones, as I expect they didn’t know which section it belonged in so hadn’t actually put it out.

Born to be Mild: Adventures for the Anxious by Rob Temple

A street gang known as " The Dragons" come into Rachel's Place and try to stir up trouble but luckily, Carl comes by just in time to stop it. I have been a big fan of the Very British Problems Twitter account for years- it never fails to make me smile and think ‘ahh me too!

I loved the references I could get and that they weren't explained (yeah, I'm a real sucker for being treated as an intelligent reader instead of as one with very limited mental capacity). As the book’s title tells it, what we’re talking about here are not traditional notions of daring-do and high-octane action.