August Bank Holiday Weekend IS Greenbelt. Sometimes it feels like the banks are closed in honour of it. For 19 of the last 21 last-weekend-in-Augusts I’ve spent my time in a field (til ‘99) or racecourse (the fest has been in Cheltenham for 11 years) engaged in four simple pleasures: soaking up great music encountering [...]
I can’t remember if my last big shift in thinking came when I first read the Tao, or when I read The Truth Is Stranger Than It Used To Be. They were certainly the last two books to really mess with my head, in a good way. Actually, no, Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas [...]