Yesterday I spent the day with our sycamore. This is the longest amount of time I have ever spent with a sycamore, or indeed any tree. I am quite sad that I only spent the day with the sycamore because I was cutting off its glorious crown in a pollard. I had a good lament…
Month: January 2017
Men need to pledge to end violence against women
Many of you will have been sickened by Donald Trump’s abusive comments about women, but men also need to call out people like Piers Morgan, who this week called for a Men’s March. He said “I’m planning a ‘Men’s March’ to protest at the creeping global emasculation of my gender by rabid feminists. Who’s with…
How to prune an apple tree
Weekend apple tree pruning following Chloe Ward’s great book How to Prune an Apple Tree, available from https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Prune-Apple-Tree-imperfect-ebook/dp/B01B67ZCNU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485170228&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+prune+an+apple+tree I was actually using the ebook edition on my tablet so could read and take photos at the same time. Currently a bargain at £2. It has loads of 5 star reviews on Amazon and it…
The Do Lectures
http://www.thedolectures.com/ will be with us again in 2017. Apparently they sold out in a day last year so register your interest in advance and you’ll get an email telling you when tickets are on sale. Good luck!
Celebrating delayed gratification
http://www.slow-journalism.com/ is the website home of the brilliant magazine Delayed Gratification. Delayed Gratification tells the news three months after it happens, after the frenzy has passed and we can reflect with some disctance on what actually happened. It also comes with some really cool infographics and no adverts! Because there are no adverts it costs…
Utopia coming to London this weekend
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/utopia-think-tank-weekend coming to London this weekend. This looks great. I might try and get there.
The purpose motive
Check out this great animated talk from the RSA looking at what motivates people at work. The science tells us that beyond the completion of simple mechanical tasks people are motivated not by reward but by purpose. This is the purpose motive. Worth watching at any time but especially now if you’re starting the new year…
The Lord of Misrule
By the end of wednesday – day four of 2017 – top earning CEO’s in Britain had already earned as much as the average person earns in a year. This means that for 361 days of the year they are just adding on wealth the rest of us have to get by without. This wealth inequality has been…
The media is the kitchen table we all sit around
The last two mornings I’ve woken up wanting to make a juice. I’ll report back whether this toadish enthusiasm for the early morning liaison with Red is habitual or a short lived fad. At the moment it feels good to start my day watching whole vegetables have the dear life crushed out of them. And the juice…
Happy juice year
I’m on a two month sabbatical from work at the moment and one of the things I wanted to do with my time was work on my mental and physical wellbeing. Lots of people have raved to me about juicing over the years and as a vegan who loves veg and fruit it makes total…
