Bus journey to the Forth Bridge
I’d read some years ago about someone who had travelled from London to Scotland using only public buses. It had been something that I had wanted to do but never committed to doing so. It seemed like the perfect challenge for my Forty for Forty: encouraging me to live more widely and live the life…
La Schiavono
I set myself the forty for forty challenge of spending forty minutes with an artwork. The idea had originally came from Oliver Burkeman in his 4,000 weeks book. He’d spent three hours with an artwork. He’d found that in slowing down and looking deeply an artwork he’d found he understood more of it. Spending three…
Newcastle to Perpignan; my first post.
I have found it harder than expected to start my blogging. I had a clear notion of setting out the principles of my ’40 for 40’ challenge and the supporting philosophy. This hasn’t happened, so I have decided to leap straight in and write some words about how my sporting match challenge has gone so…