Marianne Cantwell, author of Be a Free Range Human, is never short of fun, creative, freedom-enhancing ideas. One of her recent Friday emails (what she calls her Friday love letter) invited her readers to imagine what they’d do with an unexpected day off. She encouraged us to give ourselves free rein, to dream big, or small, just as it suited us, and to free ourselves from any barriers of cost or possibility. I felt inspired to give it a go, so here, in no particular order, are my top 10 ideas. (more…)
Category: At Home in the UK
Key to the City: Open House London 2012
As well as being Olympic Year and Jubilee Year, 2012 sees the 20th anniversary of Open House London. The scheme offers visitors the chance to do more than peep through the keyhole of buildings normally inaccessible to the public and to actually step inside, explore and experience them for themselves. Despite living in this illustrious city for many a long year, I’d never taken advantage of this initiative, until this year. In two very different but equally enjoyable visits, I went inside Richard Rogers’ iconic ‘Inside-Out’ building, Lloyds of London, and climbed the bell tower of St Mary’s Parish Church in Walthamstow. (more…)
This week Gooster on the Loose …
* Admired Daniel Craig in a snow-drenched, coffee-soaked, violence-speckled Girl with a Dragon Tattoo * Got nostalgic about Antarctica after visiting the Heart of the Great Alone exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery * Ate too much chocolate *
Why Ego Helps the Hackers
I’ve been hacked. The other day, hundreds of spam, ‘phishing’ messages were sent out as DMs, completely unbeknown to me, to my followers on Twitter. Very irritating for them, and eventually so many were sent that the DM feature on my Twitter account was paralysed. Thanks to a swift response from both the ever-helpful @SuzanneCollier and from Twitter, the problem is – I hope – now resolved. (more…)
Gooster on the Loose 