I first came across ‘The School of Life‘ via the excellent Mark Earls. It’s apparently ‘ a new cultural enterprise based in central London offering good ideas about everyday living.’ And that includes: ‘ evening and weekend courses, holidays to unexpected locations, stigma-free psychotherapy, secular sermons, conversation meals, a floating faculty of experts and a new kind of literary consultancy service called bibliotherapy.’
There’s also a really interesting School of Life blog, which brought up this gem by Richard Reynolds on Guerilla Gardening.
He writes about solo nocturnal gardening missions to cultivate areas which were being left – and how he’s ended up being invoiced by the local council for gardening work that he actually did! One of the lines that jumped out: ‘A lot has happened since I began guerrilla gardening and it’s all because I blogged about it.’
You can see his own ‘Guerilla Gardening Homepage‘ here. What came across was his surprise at how many people were either doing the same thing individually, or have since got involved. He’s inspiring a tribe, despite the red tape and seemingly idiotic efforts of the local council.