Posts Tagged: Life

Seen on the wall of a wonderful coffee shop run by a church in Covent Garden. What good is it for man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? — Mark 8:36

Inspired by my old friend Simon, and my new friend Cole I thought I’d share my musical guilty pleasures with you. Like Simon and Cole I have exquisitely perfect taste in music – I mean truly excellent taste. And like my friends I have those tracks lurking in my iTunes Library that I enjoy, and… Continue Reading ›

The UK press uses the term Mondeo Man, and lately Milton Keynes Man to describe Mr Average. This fantastic video, found by my lovely wife, suggests they are wrong; who’d have thought.

Whilst rummaging through my Instapaper queue for some lunchtime reading I found this excellent video from Nigel Marsh on work life balance. I was struck by this comment thousands of people… working long hard hours, at jobs they hate, to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t like OK so this is… Continue Reading ›

I should really be getting to bed, but thought I’d post this video about procrastination first.

You’re born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you’re up in the rarefied atmosphere, and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son. — Eddie Temple