When reading and writing, I regularly stop to look up and write down the definitions of words, even if I…
Quote
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” ― Cyril…
Advertising – Tod’s Italian Portraits – Giovanni Mazzei
10 years ago I wrote a post about a Tod’s campaign shot by one of my favourite photographers: 81-year-old photographer…
TV Show – Around the World in 80 Gardens – Ep. 7 The Med: Spain / Morocco / Italy
I’m a big fan of Monty Don. I only really ‘discovered’ him on TV over the last year or two…
Struggle Well
For the past two years, I’ve been fortunate to be a part of a small group of men meeting once…
Quote
“No es más feliz el que más tiene, sino el que menos necesita.” This is one of the phrases my…
Idiom
I’ve been interested in idioms for a long time. Years ago I wrote in another blog: I think that English…
Website – Vitsoe – Planned Obsolescence
A few years ago I walked past the old Vitsoe shop on Duke St. in London and a sign in…
Website – The New York Times – Meet Memo, the Marie Kondo of Fitness
The Memo Method: Hard work Never giving up It makes me want to take up running again.
Website – Farnam Street – The Best of Goethe’s Aphorisms
Farnam Street recently posted a list of some of their favourite aphorisms from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Maxims and Reflections,…
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