local press for the paperback: the Islington Gazette and the Messenger. Which caps off a month of local-ness, including appearances on a string of BBC local radio stations.
And because I always like to have a picture when I post, here’s the p/b cover in all its glory:
was a week of performance.
It began naked, on the windswept Cornish coast, before the good people of British Naturism.
stands for pop-up social enterprise think-tank, more or less. I’m taking part in it throughout this week. More details here. The ‘pop-up’ part of the title refers to the fact that we will be based in what was until recently an active commercial space. Like any pop-up shop or enterprise POPse plans to take over – on a temporary basis – a redundant property. In this case, the former Subway sandwich shop on Exmouth Market.
As with any pop-up venture the lifespan of POPse is going to be short. Come Friday 13th POPse will vanish into the night, leaving, we hope, a bank of provocative ideas and critiques. It begins today. Hope to see you down there.
last night from my talk in Lincoln – which was fun, I like Lincoln – I caught a bit of Tony Livesey on 5 Live. It was coming up to midnight and they had a feature on what made people happy. Of the four people to call in two of them said that it was the small groups they belonged to that made them happy. One of these was a running club, the other a book group. Someone should write a book about this.