Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.