It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.

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.

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.

Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn't money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.