it really is fabulously soft!

And the real thing is that things don't get stale, and it's fun! (I even wrote a book about this kind of way of weaving strands together to make life richer - www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Longh...)

I'm not particularly good at any of those things, but as the generalist saying goes, for someone with that kind of lift my endurance is fairly good, for someone who can run 100km I can lift OK, & for a 52 year-old whose mind is in goodish shape I'm fairly fit

great event - and thanks for the great shot of my stall in the foreground 😊

My first thought was if he were Boswell that would be like Boswell's Life of Johnson, then I realised it was the John Bothwell I knew more than 25 years ago when he was at Merton at the same time as my then girlfriend. He was a thoroughly sound chap then. Great to see time hasn't diminished that!

Fantastic!

and of course there's

accessibility
cassowaries
performing poetry
book, books, more books, libraries, more books
mountains
detective TV shows
sitting on pavements writing in notebooks
coffee
dark corners of quiet libraries
indoor rowing

That's Mike Hartley, Damo and John (l-r)

(and I had to nip over to my amazon library to check the year was 2020 on Totally FKT - the best bit of which was your description of John's nutrition as (something like) "any form of complex carbohydrate as a base for carrying sugar")

Absolutely agree. & fancy running into someone from Rodborough on here: the bridge club was my stomping ground for many years. Also, so thrilled my old home town taking the lead on UBI (still fondly remember/tell people about growing up in a town that had the LETS barter based currency!)

...
- impact (inability to change the world)
- curiosity (not looking for any/all of the above)
- communication (not telling people about your ideas)
-listening (not recognizing ideas that are already there)