Interested in taking a wander to a nearby church but not sure where to go? (Here are some good reasons to visit a city church). There are 48 churches in the square mile of the City of London plus around 10 towers or standing remains of churches. It’s my current mission to visit as many …
What do you want more of in 2020? Perhaps you’d like to wander more so that you can improve your health, build your resilience, and have mini adventures. You may have big 2020 walking goals like a walking marathon or rural hike but how about simply aiming to make a walking at work habit? Instead …
The pandemic has encouraged even more of us to embrace walking as fundamental to our daily life, health and happiness. As a walking enthusiast and advocate, I’ve had the pleasure of connecting up with some fantastic movements and groups that have the art, science or wonder of urban walking at their centre. Of course these …
We walked in all weathers and all seasons. We walked with people engaged in all sorts of businesses and explored many routes through the Olympic Park. Above all, we connected with each other. We networked in an uplifting, different way and took time out to reflect on our work and how we work. This has …
For the first time after 16 years of living here, my country mouse aunt came to visit me in London last summer. To my aunt, London is a big, scary, exciting city full of traffic, landmarks and tourists. This was an opportunity to show her the London that I live in. The beautiful, occasionally peaceful, …
It’s a surprisingly warm November day. A group of strangers with diverse business backgrounds become a lively, supportive, adventurous gathering of self-bosses, through a walk in the Olympic Park. This is a different kind of networking experience, a Self-Boss Networking Walk lead by Anise and designed to be uplifting, energising and positive. “The walk was inspiring, relaxing and …
This thing is an Arduino board. It’s used to take sensory readings from its environment such as sound or air quality. A group of us with Arduino boards balanced in our palms were lead by David Hunter through central London recording data from our walk as part of the TCCE Inside Out Festival. We also had …
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground on a week day morning in February. Impressions: Black railings, green railings, brown railings with gold peaks. Twigs strewn from storm Doris. Grave stones like rows of green teeth telling tales from history. Mobile phone and camera wielding photographers poking our lenses through the railings. Alive with spring flowers, crocuses, cowslips, a heart …
Cavendish Square Gardens early on a week day February morning. Impressions: A round square, circular path, red buses and traffic circling. Yellow circle sculpture offering a strange frame. Damp, breezy, flat day. Grouchy, low sky. Commuters rushing, high vis jacket wearing park sweepers, a man on a mobile fiddling with a hedge leaf. Short trees, hedges, …
Postman’s Park on a week day afternoon in February. Impressions: Hidden between buildings in central London. Surprising, secluded, quiet. Dull day. Silent, stationary digger and orange fencing for the ‘improvement’ works. Heroic self sacrifice tributes told in heartbreaking one line stories. Stories that haunt. A man feeding a squirrel, a woman on crutches. Pile of gravestones, …