Plan Less, Be Happier!

by | Jan 10, 2010 | Lifestyle, Observations

Happy New Year! This is the time of year for talk of resolutions. A New Year, A New You! The media and blogosphere is awash with various exhortations to achieve a ‘better’ you. My resolution partly inspired by this blog post by Tommy Angelo is to do less,...

A simple life in a rural idyll?

by | Nov 28, 2009 | Lifestyle, Observations

Whilst browsing one of my favourite blog writers Lucky Jimm I came across reference to a 25 year old community in Tuscany (Italy) in the Valle degli Elfi (Valley of Elves), where people live as we used to, helping each other, not reliant on external resources but...