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Pottering: A Cure for Modern Life

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It is an antidote to the rush and expectation of modern life where there is simply too much all the time, a bombardment of stimuli most of which are too distant to be acted upon and merely create frustration and anxiety. This book showed me the importance of slowing down and finding happiness in simple things versus stressing out to find things that I think will make me happy.

Many "self-help" techniques (like mindfulness) try to impart a similar principle but because of how they're presented they become a "thing" and just another something that you're "failing" to do or keep up with. uk makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the advertisement or any linked or associated information, and Rightmove has no control over the content. When, in the opening pages, I was given detailed instructions on how to make a cup of tea, I wasn't quite sure what to think. It may seem inconsequential, but it has a uniquely restful effect, which I only discovered by chance. I bought three copies, one for Moi, one for a dear friend who is retiring and know she is taking her time with it, the third was for person who wears 'busy' as a badge, I am not sure they have opened its pages, perhaps one day.As time opens up for all of us to spend more time in the garden, Alan Titchmarsh offers his tips on how to make sure you do it right.

As you enter into the hallway the standard of accommodation is evident and reflects the executive style of homes in the area. The purpose of a human being is not to have an opinion on absolutely everything, whatever you might feel from your social media feeds. Pottering is uncharted territory: spontaneously doing things from which you derive the tiniest bit of pleasure.Then the chapters are full of musing and specific suggestions for how to go about pottering when following that particular guideline. They might have got through all the important jobs in double-quick time, but they will be sadly lacking in the potterer’s greatest attribute: peace of mind. I especially appreciated the distinction between pottering and procrastination, and how to avoid the latter. Let’s say you’re putting away an item and you stumble across something else that needs attending to (e. The author explains the difference between doing things that bring you joy and inner peace, as opposed to those things we do that cause us stress.

It explains the whole idea of "pottering" and what it means to "potter" about and do the most mundane things, we enjoy, like make a cup of tea or clear out that long neglected cupboard. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer ‘You don’t have to put too much effort in, go very far or even do it with others’: Anna McGovern. What I have learned from this book is that pottering - if approached correctly, or with the lack of correctness - is indeed relaxing. Not one to read cover to cover in one sitting, just pick up and put down when you're pottering, read a few pages, drift onto something else.It can be seen as pointless, as a waste of time, as achieving little, but Ms McGovern is here to tell us differently. I started writing this with a completely different mindset, a review that claims that it is neither brilliant nor life changing. Look up to spot the skylark trilling away in the blue, watch the blue tits eating their fill of sunflower seeds, see the cowslips trembling in the spring breeze and the pollen floating from the hazel catkins. This book is primarily for people who don't know how to potter, or who just don't do it- the type A personalities.

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