The one key thing to remember about Slowing Down is to not do it too fast! You need to slow down slowly… If you try and do too much all at once (as we have a tendency and conditioning to do in our hare-brained society) you will just become overwhelmed and end up giving up [...] Read more »
Slow Blogging Part 2: A Rejection of Immediacy
As I am sure some of you may have noticed I have not had the opportunity to update this blog as regularly as usual over the last few weeks (I usually endeavour to update it 3-4 times a week, I don’t “do” weekends and I always celebrate Saint Monday!), some weeks I will have a [...] Read more »
The Slow Coach is Off to See Banksy
Sorry for no post again today, not been great recently. Been busy, busy, busy (and as I said in this post, “busy” rarely means “productive”!). Still, remember the 1st rule of slow blogging – “it happens when it happens”! I am off to see the Banksy exhibition at Bristol museum. Will be back tomorrow, SC Read more »
Slow Travel – The “Send a Postcard” Campaign
I was reading in a Sunday newspaper and in the travel section there were some interviews with some “celebrities” about their holiday and if they would be sending postcard. Sadly, most of them said they would not. Which got me thinking, with text messages, email, twitter, facebook updates and all the other immediate ways of [...] Read more »
Saint Monday
The Slow Coach is celebrating Saint Monday and will be back tomorrow… Read more »
Slow Seminars – Some Tortoise Training Events
I have added some seminars to run this autumn. I have done my best to make the price as fair as possible at £55 per place. If you can’t attend don’t worry, hopefully the events will be recorded and made available on this site (for a small charge). All seminars are taking place in Birmingham [...] Read more »
Is Slow Anti-Work?
I am just reading “Useful Work Vs Useless Toil” by William Morris (one of the excellent Great Idea’s Series by Penguin) and I was thinking about a question I wanted to talk about for some time, which is “Is Slow anti-work?”. I am going to give a brief answer here and hopefully expand the idea [...] Read more »
Saint Monday
It’s Saint Monday! Be back tomorrow. SC Read more »
The Slow Coach is Away (again…)
He will be back on Tuesday. SC Read more »
Idle Accessories 2: Komboloi
Komboloi are Greek worry beads, used to relieve stress and generally pass the time. My girlfriend brought me back a set of Komboloi about 7 years ago from Greece. Since then I have almost been inseparable from them. I can get quite fidgety at times, especially if I am nervous or bored or somewhere where [...] Read more »